Posted on 04/30/2026 2:55:20 PM PDT by Libloather
WASHINGTON — The lawyer for White House Correspondents’ Dinner shooting suspect Cole Allen gave an absurd reason why the CalTech grad should be allowed to walk free pending trial, claiming he was “not a danger to anybody” — despite charges that he attempted to assassinate President Trump.
Defense attorneys claimed that Allen, 31, was not prepared to carry out a mass shooting in the room where Trump, first lady Melania, and most of the top members of the administration were in attendance, because he had a pump-action shotgun, his team wrote in papers Wednesday.
“Mr. Allen has no criminal history — not even prior arrests, which alone would rebut the presumption of detention,” they wrote in an 11-page filing.
“The government’s rhetoric about a ‘mass shooting’ is also unsupported by its own proffered facts. Mr. Allen was not alleged to be holding an automatic or even semi-automatic weapon that are the hallmarks of the modern-day mass shooting,” they added.
Allen was carrying a fully loaded 12-gauge Mossberg Maverick shotgun with an extended magazine tube when he tried to barge through a Secret Service checkpoint at the dinner, feds say.
Prosecutors also released a selfie he took showing him heavily armed — including with a .38 Super-caliber semi-automatic handgun and multiple knives.
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The very reason Ol' Sparky was invented.
Will a grand jury in DC vote that he has to stand trial? If he does go to trial, it may be hard to get a conviction given that 95% of the voters in Washington, DC, voted against Trump.
So the type of gun he carried wasn’t “similar” to other mass shooters guns so he shouldn’t be charged? Am I reading that correctly? His attorneys are idiots. Cooked dude
Throw the macaroni at the wall and see what sticks.
5.56mm
Like he was intending to only use one shell. Right.
> Allen, 31, was not prepared to carry out a mass shooting ... because he had a pump-action shotgun...
Somebody needs to find the opening credits for "The Rifleman" where Lucas McCain (Chuck Connors) fires off a bunch of shots in quick succession. Granted, his was a Winchester and modified, but still...
I checked and with an extended magazine that shotgun can hold 9 shells. So I guess a mass shooting is not 9 victims.
I’m guessing the lawyer for Mr. Allen also got his degree from Caltech (which doesn’t have a law school, btw, but IS known for its humor and pranks).
The POS might get out of prison someday after DJT dies of natural causes , like Hinkley did. Too bad the people who drove him to this state of madness with their constant stream of lies and smears can’t be made to join him.
And because he considers them unpersons, it's no matter if they are killed!
He just came with two guns and a bunch of knives to have a casual chit chat with the Trump Administration, no harm intended am I right/sarc
If that’s the best he’s got he needs a new lawyer
#6 bird shot loads?
Yes, these motions are routine. But I sure hope we aren't subjected to a bizarre endless game as in the Tyler Robinson drama.
Judge, get the ball rolling!
Lincoln was taken out by a single-shot derringer.
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED.
Sounds like something Jessica Tarlov would come up with.
I am all for everyone having a defense.
But I think when defense lawyers pull this kind of crap, like insane theatrical level stuff like this, I think they get strung up as well.
.38 Super? Interesting.
I have one.
L
Public Defenders as I understand it....
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