It happened again, a deranged left-adherent, Cole Allen, fueled by hate, came too close to assassinating President Donald Trump at the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner on Saturday night.
Allen, who lives in Torrance, California, is a 31-year-old teacher and video game developer.
He charged at the security checkpoint, right outside the ballroom.
Before being tackled, Allen fired at least five shots, hitting one Secret Service agent, who will make a full recovery because he was wearing a bulletproof vest. When he was apprehended, Allen was carrying a pistol, a shotgun, and multiple knives.
Ten minutes before the shooting, Allen sent a manifesto to his family members. He said he was "no longer willing to permit a pedophile, rapist, and traitor to coat my hands with his crimes."
According to the New York Post, Allen was affiliated with the progressive group "The Wide Awakes" and attended a left-wing "No Kings!" protest in California.
In his manifesto, Allen bragged about how easy it was to plan the attack.
He asked, "What the hell is the Secret Service doing?"
He blasted the agency for a "level of incompetence" that was "insane."
Allen said that he "expected security cameras at every bend, bugged hotel rooms, armed agents every 10 feet, metal detectors out the wazoo. What I got . . . is nothing. No damn security . . . Not in the hotel. Not in the event."
Not only did a deranged lunatic and attempted assassin understand that the security for the dinner was inadequate, but also many of the people who attended.
Former Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake posted, "I can’t believe how lax the security was . . . Upon entering nobody asked to visibly INSPECT my ticket nor asked for my photo identification. All one had to do was flash what appeared to be a ticket, and they were fine with that."
Conservative influencer Mads Campbell posted that to enter the event, there was "no bag check. no real screening. no line. just thousands of people packed together, being pushed through the doors as fast as possible, it felt wrong immediately. like, viscerally wrong.”
She attended with her best friend, who felt "something is going to happen."
Campbell said that "there needs to be accountability because this should never happen again."
Yet, sadly, it keeps happening to President Trump.
How did Allen, who called himself a "Friendly Federal Assassin," get so close?
How did Thomas Matthew Crooks get access to a roof closest to the stage in Butler, Pennsylvania on July 13, 2024?
He deployed a drone to scope out the location, while the Secret Service didn't utilize drones and claimed the roof was too steep to position their agents prior to the event.
Before a Secret Service sniper killed him, Crooks took eight shots at President Trump, wounding him in the ear, killing courageous firefighter Corey Comperatore, and injuring two others.
Several months later, how did Ryan Routh know that President Trump was playing golf in West Palm Beach, Florida and was able to lie in wait for 12 hours, in a sniper's nest, in the bushes next to the course?
Routh had backpacks, a loaded SKS-style rifle with a scope, a Go-Pro camera and ceramic tiles that may have been his body armor.
Fortunately, a Secret Service agent noticed Routh's gun protruding from the bushes and fired several shots at him. Although Routh escaped, he was apprehended by law enforcement officials after being noticed by a local resident.
On Feb. 22, 2026, Austin Tucker Martin illegally entered the north gate of Mar-a-Lago, President Trump's home in Palm Beach, Florida.
He was carrying a shotgun and a can of gasoline.
How did he breach the residence's security perimeter?
After law enforcement officials ordered Martin to drop the items, Martin "raised the shotgun to a shooting position."
Thereupon, he was shot dead by law enforcement officials. Luckily, the president and first lady were in Washington D.C. at the time of the incident, and no law enforcement officials were injured.
Along with the assassination attempts, there have been other major security lapses around President Trump. Last Aug. 31, a member of the Trump National Golf Club in Sterling, Virginia brought a loaded semi-automatic handgun into the facility while the president was on premises.
The weapon, a Glock, was not detected by Secret Service personnel during security screening using handheld magnetometers.
On September 20, 2025, a man was arrested for pointing a red laser beam at Marine One, while the president was on board.
Jacob Samuel Winkler was arrested and charged with a felony. His actions "posed a risk of flash blindness and pilot disorientation," and "placed Marine One at risk of an airborne collision."
How was he allowed to get so close to President Trump?
While the investigation continues into the latest incident, the American people are becoming all too familiar with security lapses, placing our nation's 47th commander in chief's life in danger!
Since he faces countless threats, his protection needs to be top-notch.
Regrettably, the incidents over the past two years have exposed shocking security breakdowns that are continually placing President Donald Trump, and our nation, in serious jeopardy.
Jeff Crouere, a New Orleanian, is a political columnist and commentator. He hosts "Ringside Politics," nationally on Real America's Voice TV Network & Americas Voice, and weekdays on WGSO 990-AM and Wgso.com. For more information: jcrouere@gmail.com. Read more Jeff Crouere Insider articles — Click Here Now.