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Trump: Suspect's Manifesto Shows Anti-Christian Hate 47%
By Michael Katz0%
4/26/2026, 8:33:42 PM
BS Summary: This article contains 22 faulty reasoning types, including Appeal to Authority, Ambiguity (Equivocation), and Availability Heuristic, with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 25.3% saturation with 126 hits. Analysis detected 865 faulty-reasoning hits from 499 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 48.3% and a BS Rank of 47% (9,044 of 16,813 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 53.80% of the article peer group.
President Donald Trump said Sunday the armed suspect who breached security at the White House Correspondents' Association dinner had a manifesto expressing anti-Christian hate.
Cole Tomas Allen, 31, of Torrance, California, was taken into custody after law enforcement said he ran through a security checkpoint at the Washington Hilton on Saturday night and exchanged gunfire with authorities.
Just moments before the attack, Allen sent family members a note apologizing to his parents, colleagues, students, bystanders, and others for what he was about to do.
The account is based on a transcript of Allen's writings provided to NBC News by a senior administration official.
"I don't expect forgiveness," Allen wrote.
"Again, my sincere apologies."
In the note, Allen criticized Trump without mentioning him by name and wrote about lax security at the hotel, saying he had expected more.
The senior administration official said Allen's brother contacted the New London Police Department in Connecticut after receiving the note.
The department said it was contacted at about 10:49 p.m.
EDT, just over two hours after the shooting, and then notified federal law enforcement.
Authorities interviewed the caller.
Allen's sister told the Secret Service and police in Montgomery County, Maryland, after the shooting that her brother had made radical statements and had referred to a plan to do "something" to fix problems in the world, the senior administration official told NBC News.
In an interview with Fox News on Sunday, Trump said he was aware of the manifesto and the phone call received by New London police.
"Well, I heard about the London situation, and I wish they would have told us about it a little bit," Trump said.
"But it is what it is, you know? ...
But I thought Secret Service and law enforcement including D.C. police, was great.
And I would be the first to complain if they weren't, believe me.
"They were looking at me probably more than anybody else.
"The guy is a sick guy when you read his manifesto.
He hates Christians.
That's one thing for sure, he hates Christians, a hatred.
And I think his sister or his brother, actually, was complaining about it.
"You know, they were even complaining to law enforcement.
So, he was a very troubled guy."
Trump said investigators "have some pretty good information" about the suspect's motive.
"He had a lot of hatred in his heart for quite a while," Trump said, "and he just … it was a religious thing, it was strongly anti-Christian.
"And I don't know if you've gotten it, it just got released, the manifesto. ...
He's got some big problems with the rest of his life.
Very bad situation.
"His family knew that he had difficulty.
His family seemed to be, I think, they spent a lot of time with his family.
"His family says he had big difficulty.
Maybe they should have reported him a little bit more strongly, probably.
But it's a hard thing to do, I guess."
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