The suspected shooter at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner on Saturday found security at the event so lacking that a whole section of a message he allegedly sent was dedicated to trashing it.
Cole Tomas Allen, 31, who was arraigned in federal court on Monday, allegedly sent a note to family members 10 minutes before the shooting.
“Like, this level of incompetence is insane,” reads the message about the event’s security that was obtained by the New York Post. “And I very sincerely hope it’s corrected by the time this country gets actually competent leadership again.”
After the more formal section of the message, in which Allen purportedly apologized “to everyone whose trust I abused” and laid out his motivation of “no longer willing to permit a pedophile, rapist, and traitor to coat my hands with his crimes,” there was a postscript just so the writer could “rant a bit” about the level of security at the Washington Hilton hotel, where the annual event took place.
“PS: Ok now that all the sappy stuff is done, what the hell is the Secret Service doing?” the message said. “Sorry, gonna rant a bit here and drop the formal tone.”
