NPR “domestic extremism correspondent” Odette Yousef has a consistent pattern of finding extremism only on the “far right.” When Cole Tomas Allen shot up the White House Correspondents Dinner, that was somehow not left-wing extremism, as NPR’s headlines over Yousef’s reportage/camouflage from Monday’s All Things Considered claimed:
Shooting suspect’s online presence belies claims of ‘radicalism’
Once upon a time, there was a societal pact in this country that, when a depraved lunatic committed an atrocity, no one would breathe a word of his motives, speech, or writings. When Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold kicked off the school shooting craze at Columbine High School in 1999, we didn’t speak of what they thought they were accomplishing. Their so-called basement tapes were never publicly released, and authorities destroyed them in 2011. “Law enforcement officials have always regarded the tapes as a particularly infectious form of toxic waste, a primer in mass murder that could inspire more violence and must never be released,” reported the Colorado Freedom of Information Coalition.
Same Old, Same Old: Target Trump
At the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, Donald Trump was the target of yet a third assassination attempt—this time in full view of the Washington press corps.
The event was presented as a spirited night with Trump. After 11 years of avoiding the predominantly left-wing media event, he decided to revisit the dinner. He anticipated that he would be the object of ridicule inside the hall—and that he might see possible violence outside it.
In the wake of Saturday’s most recent assassination attempt on the life of President Trump, former President Barack Obama posted on Sunday a social media statement in which he declared that “we don’t yet have the details about the motives behind [the] shooting.” Apparently he didn’t read the failed assassin’s manifesto, which The New York Post published in full – 1052 words he sent to family members just 10 minutes or so before he barreled through a security cordon toward the room in which Trump, administration officials such as Pete Hegseth and Stephen Miller, and other guests attended the White House Correspondents Dinner.
The Secret Service once again finds itself playing defense, this time over how it planned and carried out security measures for senior government officials who attended the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner on Saturday following a shooting that targeted President Donald Trump.
The Department of Homeland Security agency faced criticism from lawmakers and national security experts Monday in the aftermath of the incident at the Washington Hilton on April 25.
The man charged with attempting to assassinate President Donald Trump at a Washington dinner lived with his parents in a quiet coastal suburb of Los Angeles.
Some people here lovingly refer to the city of Torrance, known for its good schools, ocean breezes and million-dollar homes, as “Bore-ance” because nothing much ever happens.
Cole Thomas Allen’s neighbours in the community told the BBC they were shocked to see his face on TV – handcuffed, topless and face down on the ground of the Hilton Hotel after allegedly coming armed to Saturday’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner.
A man armed with knives, a shotgun and a handgun was barreling through security at a full sprint, heading toward the ballroom at the Washington Hilton.
At that moment on Saturday night, President Trump and many of America’s top government officials and journalists were one floor down, crammed into the ballroom for a black-tie dinner. The mentalist Oz Pearlman, the night’s entertainer, was leaning over Mr. Trump and the first lady, demonstrating one of his mind-reading tricks by trying to guess the name that the White House press secretary had picked out for her baby, due to be born any day.
The press …
World leaders expressed shock after a shooter charged a glitzy media gala in Washington on Saturday night attended by U.S. President Donald Trump — and relief that there were no casualties.
U.S. law enforcement said the sole suspect, armed with “a shotgun, a handgun and multiple knives,” has been detained and will face charges Monday in federal court.
Sure Carney. Sure. pic.twitter.com/imbSXRLb5N
— Blazingcatfur (@fancypants_s) April 26, 2026
A TEACHER from California has been arrested after shots were fired at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner where President Trump was guest of honour early today. The President and his wife were unhurt; one Secret Service agent was shot at close range but was saved by his bullet-proof vest. You can read about developments here. Meanwhile . . .
MAINSTREAM media and politicians throughout the Western world who insist on calling Trump a fascist, a dictator, a threat to democracy, and literally Hitler, declared a three-hour moratorium on insulting him before they raced to try to escape any responsibility.
It should be no shock that journalists are gonna journalist, even in the midst of near tragedy, and last night was no exception.
We’ll start with the most egregious examples from news websites last night documenting “loud noises” at the Hilton ballroom where an assassin attempted to target Trump officials.
Just to be clear, the theory that leftists are running with is that the Trump Administration somehow convinced a registered Democrat to volunteer to go to prison for the rest of his life so that they could use him as a patsy for a third staged assassination attempt — one that,…
— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) April 26, 2026
“I can’t imagine that there’s any profession that is more dangerous,” President Donald Trump told reporters, just hours after he was at the centre of yet another major security incident.
While a small army of Secret Service agents make the president arguably the world’s most protected person, keeping him safe is proving to be no easy task.
First there was the assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania, in the summer of 2024 in which a bullet grazed his ear. Just 64 days later, Trump was again the target of a would-be assassin as he played a round on his Florida golf course.
Nuevo intento de asesinato a Donald Trump en la Cena de Corresponsales: un individuo estaba escondido en un cuartucho armado con una escopeta y otras armas, intentó irrumpir donde estaba el Presidente, disparando a un agente en el chaleco antibalas. pic.twitter.com/x0tkuZ0kOg
— Sr.Liberal (@SrLiberal) April 26, 2026
WASHINGTON — The gunman who opened fire at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner on Saturday night has been identified as Cole Allen of Torrance, Calif. — with President Trump calling him a likely “lone wolf whack job” who “looked pretty evil.”
The 31-year-old, identified by federal law enforcement sources, was arrested after allegedly entering the Washington Hilton hotel and charging toward the ballroom where Trump and roughly 2,500 guests had assembled.
US President Donald Trump has called a shooter who tried to rush the White House Correspondents’ gala, ‘a sick person.’ Trump says the man was heavily armed, but was apprehended by the Secret Service. pic.twitter.com/C9YEqsFVJl
— Al Jazeera Breaking News (@AJENews) April 26, 2026
OTTAWA — Jason Stanley moved from the United States to Canada last September, leaving behind a high-profile position at Yale to take a job at the Munk School of Global Affairs in Toronto.
The fascism researcher said he made the move for one reason: academic freedom.
“That’s the only reason. Nobody’s coming to Canada for higher wages because you’re not getting higher wages. You’re getting lower retirement, lower salaries, sometimes more teaching. So it’s academic freedom,” Stanley said in an interview with The Canadian Press.
U.S. President Donald Trump said Saturday that a “shooter has been apprehended” after he was rushed away from the White House correspondents’ dinner by Secret Service agents.
Footage showed Secret Service and other authorities swarming the banquet hall at the Washington Hilton.
“Out of the way, sir!” someone yelled. Others yelled to duck.
🚨 President Donald Trump posted this video of gunman running and sh00ting the Secret Service agent at the White House Correspondents Dinner. pic.twitter.com/Se673nY4h5
— Elizabeth (@ElizabethForNV) April 26, 2026
It is difficult to determine whether the bizarro worldview of the current Democrat-media nexus can simply be attributed to either its generic Trump Derangement Syndrome or the attendant Wile E. Coyote/Roadrunner obsessive/compulsive disorder. But the crazy world of the Left increasingly bears scant resemblance to reality.
