Cole Tomas Allen, 31, the suspect charged in the White House Correspondents’ Dinner shooting and accused of attempted assassination, posted extensive political material on social media that criticized President Donald Trump and amplified conspiracy claims.
A senior Justice Department official said Allen used the X handle “CForce3000,” which has since been removed. CNN recovered roughly 4,000 of those posts via the Internet Archive Wayback Machine. Investigators also found a Blue Sky account, coldforce.bsky.social, with about 700 archived posts before it was taken down. Account details and the “cold force” nickname correspond with Allen’s known biographical information. In 2022 he posted brief YouTube videos about the game Super Smash Bros., a channel that was later removed.
In 2024 Allen reshared political tweets that compared Trump to Adolf Hitler and included calls to nullify the 2016 election. He also reposted messages suggesting an earlier assassination attempt on Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, was staged; one repost claimed Trump was “quite capable of having staged a fake assassination attempt on himself to trick the American public.”
On Blue Sky, Allen frequently criticized Trump and his administration beginning in February 2025, weeks after Trump’s second term began. An April 2025 post said, in part, ‘Everyone already knows trump is a f**king awful person in multiple dimensions and no one has done sh*t.’ The account additionally encouraged gun possession and purchasing in December 2025.
Investigators continue to gather details about how the shooting at the event unfolded. Authorities are awaiting ballistic reports to determine whether a bullet fired by Allen struck a Secret Service agent’s bulletproof vest.