Posted on 05/07/2026 4:44:02 AM PDT by MtnClimber
When a judge offers an apology to a man accused of attempting to assassinate the president, you know something needs to change.
Last week, a federal magistrate judge in Washington, D.C. offered an apology to the man charged with trying to assassinate President Donald Trump in the middle of the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner. Cole Tomas Allen, the 31-year-old California man who allegedly stormed a security checkpoint armed with a shotgun and knives on April 25, 2026, had been placed on suicide watch in the D.C. jail. His lawyers complained that it was “demeaning” and amounted to “functionally solitary confinement.” The judge, “fascinated and disturbed,” agreed, publicly apologized to the suspect, and ensured that the watch was lifted. Prosecutors had noted that Allen told investigators he never expected to survive the attack, a detail that should have screamed “high suicide risk” to anyone with common sense.
Judicial theater that elevates the feelings of a would-be presidential assassin (or his lawyer) over public safety, national security, protection of the accused, and the basic imperative to keep dangerous defendants alive long enough to face accountability is simply unacceptable. It is time for Congress and state legislatures to enact a clear, narrow mandate: Any individual charged with or credibly suspected of terrorism, attempted assassination of a public official, or mass murder must be placed on continuous suicide watch upon arrest and detention. No exceptions, no judicial discretion to coddle, and no apologies to the perpetrators.
The reasons are straightforward and compelling.
First, suicide in such cases is inherently an obstruction of justice and destruction of evidence. Suicide destroys evidence — perhaps the only evidence — of conspirators and inciters. These attacks rarely occur in a vacuum. Even when the shooter appears to act alone, as authorities currently claim about Allen, digital trails
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Some of these terrorists need to be sent to GITMO for questioning. And some of these judges need to be questioned there too.
If given a choice, I’d prefer the judges go.
Cells should have a hanging noose in them.
In general population there will be men who loath attempts on President Trump’s life. It just takes one to carry out that death. This Mag./ Judge is clearly a goof who likely would enjoy the chaos of the Cole being killed. Oh the fun she would have with her public microphone.
Why a suicide watch for someone who needs killing? That’s likie sanitizing the injection site for a death eow inmate.
To find out if there are accomplices that put them up to the deed or aided them. Also to find out what influenced them. After that stake them out on top of a fire ant bed.
Because it would be fun. Put it on 24 hour Pay-per-View.
"Accidentally" leave something in their cell occasionally, like a plastic bag with a rubber band, or some rope.
Would this be Pay Per View?
As you say...
I recommend the economy approach.
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