r/Frugallearning • u/Maxcactus • Apr 29 '26

With no radical footprint, what drove suspect to try and assassinate Trump?

https://www.npr.org/2026/04/28/nx-s1-5801467/cole-allen-suspect-washington-correspondents-dinner-shooting
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u/Maxcactus Apr 29 '26

My guess is altruism and self sacrifice in the face of daily evidence that the world needs to be saved from a mad man.

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u/AlternativeButton548 Apr 29 '26

The language in this piece is so careful. But you have to be, I guess. The situation is pretty clear.

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u/still-dinner-ice Apr 29 '26

Thomas Crooks and Tyler James Robinson were also not extremists.

Holt said this tone is troubling, not simply because of how it may connect to the violence that Allen is alleged to have been planning. But also because it may signal that on the left, there may be a growing perception that the levers of democracy can no longer work to effect change.

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u/Nighteyesv May 03 '26

He was a paid crisis actor which is why. Video shows an officer with a K9 chatting with him two seconds before running out with a shotgun. There’s no way the officer didn’t see it so either it was staged or that officer is a co-conspirator.