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Cole Tomas Allen used twisted nicknames in WHCD shooting manifesto - What Ma Deuce, 'coldForce’ mean
Cole Tomas Allen sent a manifesto to his family members minutes before opening fire at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner
Cole Tomas Allen sent a manifesto to his family members minutes before opening fire at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner on Saturday. In the document, the 31-year-old suspect used several nicknames for himself, including 'coldForce’, and wrote about his targets inside the Trump administration. The California native also mentioned Iran in the document, which was obtained and published by The New York Post.
The writings were sent shortly before shots were fired at the Washington Hilton. Allen made repeated references to President Donald Trump without naming him directly. Investigators are treating the writings, along with a trail of social media posts and interviews with family members, as some of the clearest evidence yet of the suspect’s mindset and possible motives.
Authorities also uncovered what the official described as numerous anti-Trump social media posts linked to the suspect.
Cole Tomas Allen's twisted nicknames
According to The New York Post, Allen signed the document as “Cole ‘coldForce’ ‘Friendly Federal Assassin’ Allen,” a chilling self-description that investigators are now examining. Allen’s brother reportedly alerted police in New London, Connecticut, after receiving the manifesto.
In the document, Allen allegedly framed his actions as politically and morally justified.
“Turning the other cheek is for when you yourself are oppressed. I’m not the person raped in a detention camp. I’m not the fisherman executed without trial,” Allen wrote.
“I’m not a schoolkid blown up, or a child starved, or a teenage girl abused by the many criminals in this administration. Turning the other cheek when someone else is oppressed is not Christian behavior; it is complicity in the oppressor’s crimes.”
Officials say Allen explicitly listed Trump administration members among his intended targets.
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“Administration officials (not including [FBI Director Kash] Patel): they are targets, prioritized from highest-ranking to lowest.”
“I am no longer willing to permit a pedophile, rapist, and traitor to coat my hands with his crimes,” Allen wrote, in an apparent reference to Trump.
“In order to minimize casualties, I will also be using buckshot rather than slugs (less penetration through walls). I would still go through most everyone here to get to the targets if it were absolutely necessary (on the basis that most people chose to attend a speech by a pedophile, rapist, and traitor, and are thus complicit) but I really hope it doesn’t come to that.”
What does Ma Deuce mean?
The phrase “Ma Deuce,” referenced in Allen’s manifesto, is military slang for the Browning M2 .50-caliber heavy machine gun, a battlefield weapon Allen invoked while criticizing hotel security.
“Like, if I was an Iranian agent, instead of an American citizen, I could have brought a damn Ma Deuce in here and no one would have noticed shit. Actually insane.”
Allen repeatedly mocked what he called lax event security, writing that once he checked in before the dinner, no one appeared to suspect him.
“Like, the one thing that I immediately noticed walking into the hotel is the sense of arrogance.
I walk in with multiple weapons and not a single person there considers the possibility that I could be a threat,” he wrote.
“The security at the event is all outside, focused on protestors and current arrivals, because apparently no one thought about what happens if someone checks in the day before. Like, this level of incompetence is insane, and I very sincerely hope it’s corrected by the time this country gets actually competent leadership again.”
