McCabe: 'Fascinating' WHCA dinner shooting suspect 'made no effort whatsoever' to cover tracks
Key takeaways
- Cole Allen, 31, was charged with attempting to assassinate President Trump and other firearm-related offenses after allegedly opening fire at the Washington Hilton hotel on Saturday.
- Allen was allegedly targeting White House officials prioritized from highest-ranking to lowest, according to a manifesto confirmed to be written by the suspect.
- A White House official also told The Hill that Allen s sister informed authorities that her brother often made radical statements and referenced plans to do something in response to the issues facing today s world.
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Cole Allen, 31, was charged with attempting to assassinate President Trump and other firearm-related offenses after allegedly opening fire at the Washington Hilton hotel on Saturday.
He left an extensive record, certainly in the social media posts that you referred to earlier, all of which will be helpful to the prosecution in their effort to prove his intent to try to assassinate the president, McCabe said during an interview on CNN.
He wrote an extensive letter or manifesto or whatever you want to call it, and sent it to many people, some of whom handed it directly to law enforcement, in which he basically confessed to the crime ahead of time, explained why he was doing it, who he was targeting in what order, he continued.