A gunman armed with a shotgun, a handgun, and multiple knives just tried to kill the President of the United States at the White House Correspondents' Dinner.
Lincoln Project co-founder Steve Schmidt was on camera blaming Donald Trump before the shell casings were cold.
What Schmidt and the rest of the blame-Trump crowd don't want you asking is what was already in Cole Allen's head before he pulled the trigger.
Cole Allen's Manifesto Read Like a Democrat Party Press Release
Cole Allen didn't come up with his motivation in a vacuum.
The 31-year-old Caltech engineering graduate from Torrance, California, crossed the country by train, booked a room at the Washington Hilton the night before the event, and spent Saturday evening charging armed through a security checkpoint to reach Trump administration officials.
His manifesto declared he was no longer willing to permit a "pedophile, rapist, and traitor" to represent him.
That language came directly from years of Democrats, late-night hosts, and media figures telling anyone who would listen that Donald Trump was exactly those things – a criminal, a monster, a man whose death would be a mercy for the republic.
Allen attended "No Kings" rallies in California.
He was a member of a far-left group called "The Wide Awakes."
He donated to Kamala Harris's presidential campaign through ActBlue.
He was, by every available measure, a man who had fully absorbed the Democratic Party's message about Donald Trump – and decided to act on it.
After the Third Trump Assassination Attempt the Left Still Found a Way to Blame Him
Immediately after shots rang out at the Washington Hilton, Lincoln Project co-founder Steve Schmidt – who left the organization in 2021 – went on camera and blamed Donald Trump for "poisoning the rhetoric" in America, calling him "a vile and disgusting man."
This is the same Steve Schmidt whose organization spent years running ads designed to convince the country that Trump was destroying America.
Four days before the shooting, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries called for "maximum warfare, everywhere, all the time."
Four days before the shooting, Jimmy Kimmel looked into a camera and told a national audience that Melania Trump had "the glow of an expectant widow."
This was the third assassination attempt on Trump's life – and the left couldn't find thirty seconds of silence before pointing the finger at the man who almost died.
Jonathan Turley put it plainly: Allen's manifesto rhetoric was "all too familiar among politicians and pundits who are fueling the rage."
Conservative commentator Clay Travis was more direct: "This assassin was acting on basic, everyday Democrat talking points."
The Left-Wing Violence Pattern Democrats Keep Pretending Doesn't Exist
The pattern isn't complicated once you're willing to look at it.
Democrats and their media allies spent years calling Trump a rapist, a pedophile, a traitor, a fascist, and a Nazi.
Hasan Piker – celebrated by the progressive left and welcomed by Democratic politicians – spent the week before the shooting telling a New York Times interviewer that murdered healthcare CEO Brian Thompson was guilty of "social murder," framing political violence as understandable, even logical.
Nobody in the mainstream media is connecting those dots.
They didn't connect them after the 2017 congressional baseball shooting, when a Bernie Sanders supporter opened fire on Republican lawmakers and nearly killed Steve Scalise.
They didn't connect them after Ryan Routh lay in wait outside Trump's golf course in 2024, convicted and now serving a life sentence.
Every time a radicalized leftist tries to kill a Republican, the left demands the right not politicize it.
Then they politicize it within the hour.
Steve Schmidt doesn't want to answer for his ads.
Jimmy Kimmel doesn't want to answer for his jokes.
Hakeem Jeffries doesn't want to answer for his "maximum warfare" post.
Cole Allen read all of it, believed all of it, and took a train to Washington with a shotgun.
The voters watching at home already know who poisoned the rhetoric.
Sources:
- Scott McClallen, "From Kimmel's Punchlines to Schmidt's Tirades: The Democrat Complex That Inspired a Would-Be Assassin," Townhall, April 26, 2026.
- "What We Know About the Suspect in Shooting at White House Correspondents' Dinner," CBS News, April 26, 2026.
- "Suspect Cole Allen in Custody After Shots Fired at White House Correspondents' Dinner," Fox News, April 26, 2026.
- Matt Vespa, "Here's the WHCA Dinner Shooter's Manifesto," Townhall, April 26, 2026.
- "Live Updates: White House Says Suspect Wanted to Target Trump Officials," CNN, April 26, 2026.
- "Jimmy Kimmel Calls Melania Trump an 'Expectant Widow' Before WHCA Dinner Shooting," Fox News, April 26, 2026.
- Jonathan Turley, post on X, April 26, 2026.
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