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WASHINGTON — The man accused of opening fire at this past April’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner was hit Friday with a new terrorism charge that could bring a life sentence in prison.
Cole Thomas Allen, 31, now faces five counts in a superseding indictment, including terrorism while armed, DC US Attorney Jeanine Pirro announced.
Allen allegedly sent out an anti-President Trump manifesto before charging through the Washington Hilton with a shotgun — which prosecutors said he fired at a Secret Service officer, striking his bulletproof vest.
The attack caused pandemonium, with the Secret Service rushing Trump offstage as hundreds of guests — including much of the president’s cabinet — ducked beneath tables.
Allen allegedly wrote that his “targets” were “Administration officials (not including [FBI Director Kash] Patel)… prioritized from highest-ranking to lowest.”
The document declared: “I am no longer willing to permit a pedophile, rapist, and traitor to coat my hands with his crimes.”
The California native previously was charged with attempting to assassinate Trump, assaulting a federal officer with a deadly weapon, transporting a firearm in interstate commerce with the intent to commit a felony and discharging a firearm during a crime of violence.
Law enforcement stopped Allen, who was staying at the hotel, at a security checkpoint and recovered a Mossberg Maverick 88 12-gauge pump-action shotgun with one spent cartridge, as well as a Rock Island Armory 1911 .38 caliber pistol, two knives, four daggers, needle-nose pliers and wire cutters.
