Cole Allen's manifesto

[dalton99a]

Cole Allen’s manifesto in full:


Hello everybody!

So I may have given a lot of people a surprise today. Let me start off by apologizing to everyone whose trust I abused.

I apologize to my parents for saying I had an interview without specifying it was for “Most Wanted.”

I apologize to my colleagues and students for saying I had a personal emergency (by the time anyone reads this, I probably most certainly DO need to go to the ER, but can hardly call that not a self-inflicted status.)

I apologize to all of the people I traveled next to, all the workers who handled my luggage, and all the other non-targeted people at the hotel who I put in danger simply by being near.

I apologize to everyone who was abused and/or murdered before this, to all those who suffered before I was able to attempt this, to all who may still suffer after, regardless of my success or failure.

I don’t expect forgiveness, but if I could have seen any other way to get this close, I would have taken it. Again, my sincere apologies.

On to why I did any of this:

I am a citizen of the United States of America.

What my representatives do reflects on me.

And I am no longer willing to permit a pedophile, rapist, and traitor to coat my hands with his crimes.

(Well, to be completely honest, I was no longer willing a long time ago, but this is the first real opportunity I’ve had to do something about it.)

While I’m discussing this, I’ll also go over my expected rules of engagement (probably in a terrible format, but I’m not military so too bad.)

Administration officials (not including Mr. Patel): they are targets, prioritized from highest-ranking to lowest

Secret Service: they are targets only if necessary, and to be incapacitated non-lethally if possible (aka, I hope they’re wearing body armor because center mass with shotguns messes up people who *aren’t*

Hotel Security: not targets if at all possible (aka unless they shoot at me)

Capitol Police: same as Hotel Security

National Guard: same as Hotel Security

Hotel Employees: not targets at all

Guests: not targets at all

In order to minimize casualties I will also be using buckshot rather than slugs (less penetration through walls)

I would still go through most everyone here to get to the targets if it were absolutely necessary (on the basis that most people *chose* to attend a speech by a pedophile, rapist, and traitor, and are thus complicit) but I really hope it doesn’t come to that.

Rebuttals to objections:

Objection 1: As a Christian, you should turn the other cheek.

Rebuttal: Turning the other cheek is for when you yourself are oppressed. I’m not the person raped 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.

Objection 2: This is not a convenient time for you to do this.

Rebuttal: I need whoever thinks this way to take a couple minutes and realize that the world isn’t about them. Do you think that when I see someone raped or murdered or abused, I should walk on by because it would be “inconvenient” for people who aren’t the victim?

This was the best timing and chance of success I could come up with.

Objection 3: You didn’t get them all.

Rebuttal: Gotta start somewhere.

Objection 4: As a half-black, half-white person, you shouldn’t be the one doing this.

Rebuttal: I don’t see anyone else picking up the slack

Objection 5: Yield unto Caesar what is Caesar’s.

Rebuttal: The United States of America are ruled by the law, not by any one or several people. In so far as representatives and judges do not follow the law, no one is required to yield them anything so unlawfully ordered.

I would also like to extend my appreciation to a great many people since I will not be likely to be able to talk with them again (unless the Secret Service is *astoundingly* incompetent.)

Thank you to my family, both personal and church, for your love over these 31 years.

Thank you to my friends, for your companionship over many years.

Thank you to my colleagues over many jobs, for your positivity and professionalism.

Thank you to my students for your enthusiasm and love of learning.

Thank you to the many acquaintances I’ve met, in person and online, for short interactions and long-term relationships, for your perspectives and inspiration.

Thank you all for everything.

Sincerely,

Cole “coldForce” “Friendly Federal Assassin” Allen

PS: Ok now that all the sappy stuff is done, what the hell is the Secret Service doing? Sorry, gonna rant a bit here and drop the formal tone.

Like, I expected security cameras at every bend, bugged hotel rooms, armed agents every 10 feet, metal detectors out the wazoo.

What I got (who knows, maybe they’re pranking me!) is nothing.

No damn security.

Not in transport.

Not in the hotel.

Not in the event.

Like, the one thing that I immediately noticed walking into the hotel is the sense of arrogance.

I walk in with multiple weapons and not a single person there considers the possibility that I could be a threat.

The security at the event is all outside, focused on protestors and current arrivals, because apparently no one thought about what happens if someone checks in the day before.

Like, this level of incompetence is insane, and I very sincerely hope it’s corrected by the time this country gets actually competent leadership again.

Like, if I was an Iranian agent, instead of an American citizen, I could have brought a damn Ma Deuce in here and no one would have noticed shit.

Actually insane.

Oh and if anyone is curious is how doing something like feels: it’s awful. I want to throw up; I want to cry for all the things I wanted to do and never will, for all the people whose trust this betrays; I experience rage thinking about everything this administration has done.

Can’t really recommend it! Stay in school, kids.


(https://nypost.com/2026/04/26/us-news/read-whcd-gunman-cole-allens-full-anti-trump-manifesto/)

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Cole Allen's LinkedIn bio:

Cole Allen
Game dev, Engineer, Scientist, Teacher
Los Angeles Metropolitan Area

About

Mechanical engineer and computer scientist by degree, independent game developer by experience, teacher by birth.

Experience

Teacher (Part-Time)
C2 Education · Part-time
Mar 2020 - Present · 6 yrs 2 mos

Indie Game Developer
Self-employed
Sep 2018 - Present · 7 yrs 8 mos
San Gabriel, CA

Designed and built the C++-based video game Bohrdom™, including several custom musical pieces and over seven hundred and fifty custom graphics
Formulated and wrote Bohrdom's advanced 2D elastic collision physics engine, including custom collision detection functions and the capability to accurately resolve rotational components of collisions

Bohrdom has been successfully released on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/945530/Bohrdom/

Currently developing a second game, working name "First Law".

Mechanical Engineer
IJK Controls
Jun 2017 - Sep 2018 · 1 yr 4 mos
South Pasadena

Reworked existing two-axis gimbal design to fit specifications of new project by redesigning relevant parts and assemblies via SolidWorks, passing internal and external PDRs and CDRs, and creating GD&T part drawings
Worked with vendors and senior engineers to quote and manufacture parts on time, within tolerances, and within budget
Maintained and improved existing Android-based GUI for a four-axis gimbal, adding new input drivers, extensively reworking UI, improving documentation of critical features, and addressing long-standing requests and bugs
Built and maintained a laser communications system’s current Web-based GUI using Javascript, HTML, CSS, jQuery, Python, Flask, fixing vast majority of issues, requests, and bugs tracked via GitHub
Performed modal analysis on optical bench mounts in ANSYS, refining client's designs based on the analysis
Designed a mechanical actuator for a client's optical bench by creating multiple prototypes, passing design review, and preparing GD&T drawings of associated parts

Teaching Assistant
Caltech
Sep 2016 - Jun 2017 · 10 mos
Los Angeles Metropolitan Area

Aided students, leading Arduino-based lectures on two occasions
Ran experiments and helped design course material

Mechanical Engineering Intern
Fluid Synchrony
Jun 2016 - Aug 2016 · 3 mos
Pasadena

Designed a 3D-printed human-wearable case for medical control system, passing short design review
Designed and extensively tested multiple electrode fixture concepts along with 3D-printed equipment that made fixture creation significantly faster and more reliable

Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship Student
JPL (NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory)
Jun 2014 - Aug 2014 · 3 mos
4800 Oak Grove Dr, Pasadena, CA 91109

Added modeling capability for planets around several previously excluded stars.
Updated the most recent version of the model with new chemical reaction data.
Identified multiple sources of discrepancies between two versions of the model.

Education

Caltech
Bachelor of Science - BS, Mechanical Engineering
Sep 2013 – Jun 2017
Grade: 3.0/4.0

Activities and societies: Caltech Christian Fellowship, Caltech Nerf Club

California State University-Dominguez Hills
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science
Aug 2022 – May 2025
Grade: 3.9/4.0

(https://www.linkedin.com/in/cole-allen-003804b7/)

[malaise]

1. I'm in tears for all of us

That is all

[Ritabert]

2. Is that real? Sounds like BS.

[Hugin]

5. It's weird that Patel gets a pass.

Jumped right out at me.

[yellow dahlia]

14. I know. He wrote it after the shooting attempt? Huh?

[Ritabert]

16. Sounds fishy.

[yellow dahlia]

17. And it doesn't jibe.

At the beginning he says - he may be in the hospital depending on how competent SS is.

And later he says how bad the security was at the hotel, and that they were more obsessed with the protestors outside. And can't have been written in two different times - the present and the past.

[Ritabert]

19. None of this passes the sniff test.

[dalton99a]

20. He sent it to family members 10 minutes before the attack

according to the NY Post

[TBF]

32. the NY Post? Seriously. nt

[dalton99a]

34. Law enforcement sources prefer to leak to RW papers.

[TBF]

35. DU really has changed over the years -

I'm hardly recognizing it anymore. Smh.

[MichMan]

27. What makes you think that?

His observations of security were based on what he saw earlier when he checked in

[InstantGratification]

28. I think this is being misunderstood

The talk of lack of security was in the hotel outside the event room. It was hosting public events and open to guests. He expected there to be security all over the inside of the hotel and it wasn't. He walked right in, checked in and went straight to his room without have to go through a metal detector or a gauntlet of police/secret service.

He was caught on the floor above the event trying to run past the checkpoint to get to the stairs that lead down to the event. From that checkpoint on was where all the security was. He didn't encounter any of that security until he made his attempt because he walked into the lobby, checked in, took an elevator to the 10th floor and went to his room.

[malaise]

41. Is there really a video with him and

Shady’s wife?

[yellow dahlia]

42. I had not heard about that.

Hhmmm...

[yellow dahlia]

44. I just looked online.

There is a video of an event at CalTech in 2017. The event has to do with aging. Cole Allen demonstrated a wheelchair device he invented. Apparently Usha spoke during the conference. So not really a close encounter...just a true coincidence, IMHO.

[malaise]

45. Thanks

[LeftInTX]

46. It's a random Indian woman who has hair like Usha! At a health conference.

Kinda don't think it's Usha.
Usha's nose appears to be longer and her brows are more furrowed.

Doesn't dress like Usha either.....
As an attorney, Usha would wear more expensive clothes and I really can't picture her with a neck scarf like that. (Well maybe if she was a probate attorney) I just don't see high powered attorneys dressed like that. She would have worn a something different to a presentation...The women presenting looks more like she's in the health care business.

[malaise]

47. Thanks

Important

[stumpysbear]

3. Clearly delusional if he thought he could just walk in there and do his business

[malaise]

4. Study US history please

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_presidential_assassination_attempts_and_plotsB

[LeftInTX]

38. Security is much higher in recent decades. It's not worth the effort.

[leftstreet]

6. LOL why did he exclude Patel?

Wish he would have said why

[dalton99a]

7. Maybe he thinks Patel is a clueless moron.

Which is true.

[yardwork]

22. Patel in same category as hotel guests.

[dalton99a]

23. +1. A brain-dead drunk.

[LeftInTX]

8. POC? Guy is delusional anyway. Anyone who attempts this is suicidal or crazy....

Not in their "right mind".

[PCB66]

9. Just another nutcase

Plenty of them around

[mzmolly]

10. :(

[gulliver]

11. Lost, misled/misguided, broken unit, paranoid, ego abyss nt

[ecstatic]

12. whoa! not the usual format

This guy sounds coherent, but I have questions...

his is the first real opportunity I’ve had to do something about it

How? Did someone contact you through your social media account to help set this up?

If cole did this completely on his own without prompting / prodding by an anonymous agent, then it just further reiterates how things can quickly take a turn when law and order breaks down. Republicans, especially magamike, were complicit in covering up the epstein files for trump. They refuse to hold trump accountable for anything --- not the tariffs, not the Iran war, not the insider trading, not the threats of genocide, the list goes on and on. When you block the normal channels of accountability, you foster an environment where individuals will try to take matters into their own hands.

[area51]

18. You reminded me of the JFK quote:

"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."

[Sogo]

30. Your concluding paragraph is spot on, IMO.

"If cole did this completely on his own without prompting / prodding by an anonymous agent, then it just further reiterates how things can quickly take a turn when law and order breaks down. Republicans, especially magamike, were complicit in covering up the epstein files for trump. They refuse to hold trump accountable for anything --- not the tariffs, not the Iran war, not the insider trading, not the threats of genocide, the list goes on and on. When you block the normal channels of accountability, you foster an environment where individuals will try to take matters into their own hands."

[allegorical oracle]

13. IF this document is authentic, it sounds as if he hoped that he might be prevented

from carrying out his attack -- thus his condemnation of the hotel's security. Wouldn't classify him as a run-of-the-mill nutcase. Possible that he was inspired by Mangione.

[WarGamer]

15. total maga.

For a "smart guy" he's an utter idiot.

[EarthAbides]

21. Honestly...

My husband and I have been talking for months how someone just needs to step up and do the deed....

Personally, I think Cole Allen will be remembered in history because he has started a movement...

[LeftInTX]

37. He will be remembered for the same reason that Ryan Routh or Crooks was remembered

Although, this guy is much better looking than those two.

You're welcome to try this yourself! But I think it's a fool's mission.

(I can't even remember the name of the guy who killed Charlie Kirk)

[ShazzieB]

39. I have never said a word about it to anyone, not even my husband.

But I have had very similar thoughts from time to time. They always end with the realization of how futile such an attempt would be.

I can't condone the idea of a political assassination IN PRINCIPLE. Do I believe Trump's continued existence is a threat to the future of this country, if not the entire human species? Yes. Is killing people morally wrong? Again, yes. It is possible to hold both thoughts in one's head at the same time.

[Katinfl]

25. Patel refused to leave the room when security was telling everybody to leave. He just sat there.

He was not going to leave for whatever reason. Very strange now that we know he was mentioned in this manifesto(?) and was excluded.

[cachukis]

26. Lot going on there.

[sop]

29. Sad, very sad. From my perspective, he accomplished nothing, and he lost everything.

Violence is never the answer. I'm just glad he didn't seriously injure or kill anyone. Thanks for posting this.

[Exp]

31. Wow, lots of people feel the same way. But let me edit this to say firmly that even sane people can think of insane

things, but only crazy people actually carry out the insance acts.

[HeartsCanHope]

33. If this manifesto is real, this is so, so sad.

This is what Trump does to people. He ruins their life.

Think of all the damage Trump has done, not only to our country, but to the world since his birth!

This young man's life is over--at 31 years. I hope Allen will get the help he needs.

I certainly can empathize with his anger at not being able to stop all of this, though

violence is never the answer. My heart goes out to his family, too.

Side note, I do wonder at Allen not wanting to target Kash Patel! What is up with that? Patel is pathetic,

but still very dangerous in his complicity.

[Gary 50]

36. Put me on the jury please. I'll be as fair and honest as Fox "news."

[somsai]

40. In a Democracy we vote on things

What we don't do is shoot up the place because we don't like what the people who win elections are doing.

When I got pissed back in 2000 I went out and worked hard to get someone different elected. Violence has no place in American politics.

[The Revolution]

43. I found this part especially chilling

I would still go through most everyone here to get to the targets if it were absolutely necessary

"Going through" people, he was willing to just massacre a room full of people if it came to that.