Cole Thomas AllenFBI director not among suspects in White House Correspondents’ Dinner shooting Kashi Patel On his target list, the news was revealed on Sunday. The New York Post published a manifesto the 31-year-old Californian sent to relatives minutes before he opened fire at the Washington Hilton hotel on Saturday night.
Reports show that Allen referred to himself as a “friendly federal assassin,” further revealing his motivations for the attack in his manifesto.
“Also turn the other cheek when you yourself are oppressed. I was not someone raped in an internment camp. I was not a fisherman executed without trial,” Allen wrote in the document. “I was not a schoolboy who was bombed to death, nor a child who starved, nor a teenage girl who was abused by the many criminals in this administration. Turning the other cheek when ‘others’ are oppressed is not the Christian thing to do; it is complicit in the crimes of the oppressor.”
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Cole Thomas Allen’s Goal List
The manifesto further states that Allen has a list of goals. “I am no longer willing to allow a pedophile, rapist and traitor to cover up his crimes at my hands,” he wrote, an apparent reference to President Donald Trump.
However, Kash Patel was not his target. “Administrative officers (excluding [FBI Director Kash] Patel): They are targets, priority from highest to lowest,” he wrote.
“To minimize casualties, I will also be using buckshot instead of bullets (less penetration through walls). If absolutely necessary, I would still get through most of the people here to get to my target (as most people *choose* to attend a lecture by pedophiles, rapists, and traitors, and are therefore complicit), but I really hope it doesn’t come to that.”
“Why doesn’t Kash Patel…?”
Several social media users asked the same question – “Why isn’t Kash Patel on the list?”
“Why did the Cole Allen Manifesto take Kash Patel off the list…he’s been through so much, it’s only a matter of time before he’s eliminated,” one user wrote on the X (formerly Twitter) platform.
“Did Kash Patel and his FBI and/or Secret Service have another complete security failure?” asked another.
While neither Kash Patel nor the agency has commented on the declaration, a report on Sunday detailed calls for the FBI director to be fired.
Kash Patel could be sacked: Report
According to Politico, Patel may be the next senior official to exit Trump’s cabinet. The publication said there are growing questions within the White House about the future of the FBI director. In the previous weeks, Trump fired Navy Secretary, former Attorney General Pam Bondi and former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.
“It was just a matter of time,” a White House official told Politico that Patel was fired.
Kash Patel’s girlfriend’s reaction
Meanwhile, Patel’s girlfriend Alexis Wilkins reacted to the “media narrative” surrounding the shooting and Patel’s future.
“We can all peacefully disagree. We can argue all day long, but the lies being told right now are baseless and so fabricated that they serve the same purpose of inciting violence. The media’s insane contribution to this narrative and clear deviation from fact-checking is as damaging and threatening as the violent leftist rhetoric that often refuses reasonable explanation. Thank you to law enforcement and the work they did last night to keep us safe,” she tweeted.
