Suspect A California ‘Teacher’
The 31-year-old would-be assassin, who tried to kill President Donald Trump Saturday night, was a college prep instructor from Torrance, Calif. Identified as the purported assassin: Cole Tomas Allen, a C2 instructor who had recently received a Teacher of the Month award from the Los Angeles County School District.
Allen reportedly assembled his weapon while on site inside the Hilton Inn at Washington D.C., the location of the White House correspondents’ Association dinner that had invited Trump to speak. Trump eluded the assassin and none of Trump’s entourage was injured, including Melania Trump, Vice President J.D. Vance and a variety of cabinet officers. A Secret Service agent was hit by a shot, but, he too, was wearing a protective vest, so he also escaped injury.
We now know a bit more about the would-be assassin. Yes, he was apparently left-leaning, as receipts indicate he had donated $25 to Kamala Harris when she ran against Trump in 2024. He was a California Institute of Technology mechanical engineering graduate who developed a video game called Bohrdom, described as an atomic fighting game, on the Steam platform.
He also spent a summer as an intern at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Authorities were ransacking Allen’s apartment in Torrance for any further diaries, computers, letters or other devices that might shed a light on this felon’s violent fetishes. Here, in a clip from M.J. Truth, Trump addresses the press following the assassination attempt. He says assassins often target presidents who are impactful.
