The California man accused of opening fire at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner with the stated aim of targeting members of the Trump administration had filled his social media accounts with repeated anti-Trump messages in the days and weeks leading up to the incident.

Authorities identified the suspect as Cole Allen, 31, a graduate of Caltech, who was highly active on the platform BlueSky, where he posted extensively and reshared political commentary. He appeared to favor the site over X, at one point referring to its owner, Elon Musk, as a “Hitlerian figure.”

The account he used operated under the handle “Coldforce,” a name that also appeared at the end of a manifesto later attributed to Allen.

Across more than 1,000 posts, Allen frequently attacked the Trump administration, with his tone intensifying as U.S. backing for Ukraine appeared to decline.

In one message, he lashed out at Vice President JD Vance, writing that he is “a piece of [garbage] for bragging about ditching Ukraine during a Turning Point USA event at the University of Georgia on April 14.

Allen’s account also promoted multiple fundraising efforts aimed at supporting Ukrainian military units and students seeking supplies.

In a separate post, he characterized President Trump as “a sociopathic mob boss,” citing references connected to the Epstein files.

On April 8, the same day the United States reached a temporary ceasefire agreement with Iran, Allen criticized the deal as capitulation, accusing Trump of abandoning his position.

“Trump is literally one of those villains that if you beat [him] hard enough, he’ll join your team. Don’t really have any other insights to this, it’s not really actionable cause no way schumer just canes him into acting his age, but, like, it would probably literally work on him,” he wrote.

Allen also reacted angrily after Trump posted an AI-generated image depicting himself as Yoshkah.

Describing himself as a Protestant Christian, Allen shared and amplified posts accusing members of the Trump administration of religious hypocrisy and suggesting they should be labeled “satanic idolators.”

“i’m not sure that you can work for this admin and be any flavor of genuine christian believer and see trump post something like this [Trump as Yoshkah] without understanding, at some level, deep down, that you are [cursed] even if you’ll never admit it to anyone,” one repost read.

Similar sentiments appeared in the manifesto Allen distributed to friends and relatives before yesterday’s attempted attack. In it, he referenced Christian teachings about forgiveness but argued that the Trump administration had moved beyond the possibility of redemption.

His pinned post featured an anime-style image of a character apologizing.

“Turning the other cheek is for when you yourself are oppressed. I’m not the person [assaulted] in a detention camp. I’m not the fisherman executed without trial. I’m not a schoolkid blown up or a child starved or a teenage girl abused by the many criminals in this administration. Turning the other cheek when someone else is oppressed is not Christian behavior; it is complicity in the oppressor’s crimes,” he wrote.

Shortly before deleting his BlueSky account, Allen pinned a final post showing an animated character kneeling and offering a profuse apology.

His manifesto similarly opened with a series of apologies directed “to everyone whose trust [he] abused.”

Prosecutors said Allen is expected to face formal charges, including using a firearm in connection with a violent crime and assaulting a federal officer, when he appears in court Monday, according to U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro.

{Matzav.com}