The suspect arrested for the shooting that shut down the 2026 White House Correspondents Dinner and saw Donald Trump evacuated could spend the rest of his life in a federal prison if found guilty, the Acting Attorney General declared today.
“Today the Department of Justice filed three federal charges in the United States District Court against Cole Thomas Allen,” Todd Blanche said Monday, just hours after the formal charges were brought down in a hearing in DC with the suspect present.
“The first count is the attempted assassination of the President of the United States,” the Acting AG added, with FBI Director Kash Patel and U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro by his side at the DOJ. “This count is punishable by up to life in prison.”
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