Lefties Push Narrative That WHCA Shooter Targeted the Media — But It’s Now Revealed Who He Was Truly Targeting in His Attack on the Event
The corporate media couldn’t wait ten minutes before pushing their favorite narrative.
Right after a gunman tried to storm the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner armed with a shotgun, handgun, and knives, left-wing journalists and pundits immediately claimed he must have been radicalized by Trump’s criticism of the “fake news” media. They painted themselves as the brave victims under attack.
MSNOW: It’s unclear who the intended target of the WHCA shooter might have been. pic.twitter.com/6O4PbAl4Sa
— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) April 26, 2026
We don’t know the shooter’s motive at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner tonight. His target could have been Trump, but it could just as easily have been a member of the media.
Let’s stay patient, avoid jumping to conclusions, and wait for the facts to come out.
— Jon Cooper 🇺🇸 (@joncoopertweets) April 26, 2026
Why are we assuming the shooter was targeting the president? Consider the language that’s been repeated about the press:
“Enemy of the people.”
“Corrupt media.”
“Activist journalists.”
“Radical media.”— Sofia B. Kinzinger (@sofiakinzinger) April 26, 2026
They were dead wrong — again.
The shooter, 31-year-old Cole Tomas Allen from Torrance, California, confessed to law enforcement that he was targeting Trump administration officials**, not the press.
He didn’t make it into the ballroom where President Trump, First Lady Melania, VP JD Vance, and other top officials were gathered, but his intent was clear: hit the Trump team.
Even worse for the media spin machine, Allen was a Kamala Harris campaign donor who was active on Bluesky pushing radical left posts.
Bluesky Screenshots / Evidence:
He slammed journalists for being too soft on Trump and wanted stronger opposition. This wasn’t a right-wing extremist triggered by mean tweets. This was a deranged leftist acting on years of media and Democrat demonization of President Trump.
President Trump and senior officials were rushed out by Secret Service for safety. Trump later addressed the incident directly, calling out the pattern of leftist violence — this being the latest in a string of threats and attempts against him.
The media’s instant pivot to “he was targeting us!” was pure projection and damage control. They’ve spent years calling Trump Hitler, a traitor, and an existential threat to democracy. When one of their own ideological foot soldiers acts on that toxic rhetoric, they try to flip the script and make themselves the victims.
No self-reflection. No apology for the hate they’ve stoked. Just more gaslighting.
This is exactly why Americans rejected the radical left in 2024 and put Trump back in the White House. The country is exhausted by the unhinged hatred, the two-tiered justice, and the fake news cartel that protects its own while attacking anyone who dares tell the truth.
The shooter is in custody. The facts are out. The left’s narrative collapsed in record time.
President Trump survives. America wins again. And the corporate media keeps proving why trust in them is at rock bottom.
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The “press” did what they always do: got it wrong! LOL!
They all work for the same news filtered source – Soros Inc. – who gives them their daily script of talking points to recite.
Attention tards at CIA…
Real shooters don’t write manifestos. If you want public to believe your BS make it look real. Who wants to bet Trump doesn’t wear a vest? If Trump’s last shooting was real why isn’t he already wearing a bullet vest? Because much of what Trump does is faked.
Enough theater. Where’s the Epstein videos? Those black-mailed politicians must be removed from office, because they work for another nation now, not USA.
By way of truth thou shall do war. Exemptincome . org
Why is he still breathing? The SS needs more range time.
And because he’s still breathing – Soon to be a cult hero, with a fund me defense account set up, show trial followed by endless appeals, a book deal, movie rights and someone will want to marry him in prison.
No nut job serious about a cause would waste time and ammunition on a member of the Press when all it would take to remove one is a good flushing toilet!
Still waiting to hear the shooter’s preferences in companionship – i.e. was he on hormonal therapy, going thru the surgeries to change over, taking mind-altering doctor prescribed psych drugs, have a girlfriend?
Nine out of ten mass shooters/assassins have been gender confused, or wear fury animal costumes – so what’s this one’s preferences?