US Attorney Jeanine Pirro has confirmed that the projectile which struck a Secret Service agent during the White House Correspondents Dinner attack definitively came from the weapon used by accused would-be assassin Cole Allen.
As reported by The Post Millennial, Pirro told CNNs Jake Tapper on State of the Union, We now can establish that a pellet that came from the buckshot from the defendants Mossberg pump-action shotgun was intertwined with the fiber of the vest of the Secret Service officer. She added, It is definitively his bullet he hit at that Secret Service agent. He had every intention to kill him, and anyone who got in his way, on his way to killing the President of the United States.
Pirro further stressed the gravity of the plot, declaring, This was a premeditated, violent act, calculated to take down the president, and anyone who was in the line of fire." The suspect, 31-year-old Cole Allen, allegedly sprinted past a security checkpoint at the Washington Hilton, breached the perimeter, opened fire with a shotgun, and was then subdued by Secret Service agents.
Allen now faces three federal charges, including attempting to assassinate the president, underscoring the seriousness of the threat against the nations elected leader. According to reports, he traveled by train from California to Washington armed with a shotgun, a .38 caliber pistol, and multiple knives and daggers.
Legal filings submitted last week asserted that Allen was willing to commit a mass shooting inside a room full of the highest-ranking officials in the US government. Social media posts attributed to Allen reportedly compared Trump to Adolf Hitler and urged opponents of the Trump administration to arm themselves, raising further questions about political radicalization and the growing menace of violence directed at conservative leaders.
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