Badlands Daily: 4/27/26 - WHCD Shooting, Cole Allen Profile, Security Failures Exposed
CannCon and Zak Paine open the week with a deep, wide-ranging breakdown of the White House Correspondents' Dinner assassination attempt. Cole Allen, a California teacher with ties to far-left groups No Kings and The Wide Awakes, rushed a magnetometer at the Washington Hilton with a pistol and shotgun and fired before being stopped by Secret Service. The guys go through his full manifesto, which reads as part dog whistle and part reconnaissance report, noting his postscript mocking the complete absence of security and how nobody considered someone checking in the night before. Multiple…
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