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Fact Check: Did Cole Allen Drive for Savannah Guthrie or Other Celebrities?

Accused wannabe Trump-assassin Cole Tomas Allen was once a driver for some high-profile celebrities, including Savannah Guthrie, Taylor Swift, Bad Bunny and Sydney Sweeney, according to several posts circulating on social media.

Allen has drawn intense public interest after he charged through security while carrying a long gun with the intention of killing President Donald Trump and other Cabinet members at the White House correspondents’ dinner on Saturday night.

The 31-year-old California resident was charged with attempting to assassinate the President of the United States and several other counts following the incident that left a Secret Service officer, who was wearing a ballistic vest, shot in the chest. 

The Claim 

Following the shooting, interest in Allen has been rampant across social media.

Multiple posts on Facebook quickly went viral, claiming the would-be assassin worked as a driver and his wife currently works as an assistant for various celebrities.

The celebrities mentioned in these posts include:  

  • Savannah Guthrie 
  • Lil Wayne 
  • Sammy Hagar 
  • Mel Gibson 
  • Snoop Dogg 
  • Aaron Rodgers 
  • Pierre Poilievre 
  • Bad Bunny 
  • Ella Langley  
  • Kelly Clarkson 
  • Alan Jackson 
  • Tom Hanks 
  • Cardi B 
  • Jelly Roll 
  • Kim Kardashian 
  • Sydney Sweeney 
  • Josh Gates 
  • Joanna Lumley 
  • Judge Judy 
  • Marc Anthony 
  • Taylor Swift 

A number of the posts contain language like this: “BREAKING: The shooter at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner has been identified as 30-year-old Cole Allen from Torrance, California.” 

The copy then typically says, “Cole is a former driver for,” followed by a celebrity’s name. It then states, “and his wife is currently working as” his or her assistant. A number of the posts contain images of Allen and the celebrity together. 

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Reporter Declared “I Hope They KILL The Orange MF” During Trump Assassination Attempt

A female reporter at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner openly hoped the gunman would assassinate President Trump, saying “I hope they kill the orange MF” as shots rang out and attendees dove for cover, according to a Congressman who was also present.

Rep. Andy Ogles (R-TN) revealed the shocking moment from inside the room during the latest attempt on Trump’s life.

“There was a reporter in the room who was under a table, and when the shots went off, and everybody’s hiding, she said, ‘I hope they kill the orange MF,’” Ogles recounted. “That was a journalist in the room, who was hoping that when she stood up, the President of the United States would be dead,” he urged.

The revelation comes as 31-year-old Cole Tomas Allen faces charges for storming the event armed with multiple weapons. One officer was shot but saved by his vest. Trump and officials were safely evacuated.

This incident fits a clear pattern of radicalization. As we detailed, leftists openly expressed disappointment that Trump survived the attempt on his life, while the shooter’s own tweets mirrored Democratic rhetoric.

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FCC Launches UNPRECEDENTED REVIEW OF ABC Stations After Kimmel’s “Expectant Widow” Jab

The federal government is cracking down on ABC’s broadcast licenses in direct response to Jimmy Kimmel’s latest vile comments, this time on First Lady Melania Trump. 

The FCC, under Trump appointee Brendan Carr, is directing eight Disney-owned TV stations to file early license renewals tied explicitly to Kimmel’s “expectant widow” monologue that he may have gotten away with had an assassination attempt against Trump not occurred on the same day.

White House Communications Director Steven Cheung was forthright In a post on X, declaring “Jimmy Kimmel is a shit human being for: Making a disgusting joke about assassinating the President. Doubling down on that joke instead of doing the decent thing by apologizing. ABC needs to fire him immediately and he should be shunned for the rest of his life.”

The controversy erupted after Kimmel, during a skit on his show last Thursday portraying himself as master of ceremonies for the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, told Melania Trump: “Mrs Trump, you have a glow like an expectant widow.”

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The Latest Trump Assassination Attempt, How Media Narratives Fuel Violence

The April 25, 2026 attack at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner was the fifth documented attempt against President Donald Trump in less than a decade. The first, largely forgotten by the media, came in 2016, when Michael Steven Sandford attempted to seize an officer’s weapon at a Trump rally in Las Vegas.

The most widely remembered was Thomas Matthew Crooks opening fire at the Butler, Pennsylvania rally on July 13, 2024, killing one rallygoer and grazing Trump’s ear, producing the iconic photograph of Trump raising his fist and shouting “Fight, fight, fight.” Between the fourth and fifth attempts on the president’s life, conservative Christian commentator Charlie Kirk was assassinated while engaging students in open dialogue on a university campus.

The media enabled violence against both men through sustained false framing. Trump was portrayed for years as a Russian asset and a threat to democracy. Using out-of-context quotes and selective framing, the media painted Kirk as a racist and a homophobe. Some on the left called for the deaths of both men and celebrated when Kirk was killed.

The media campaign against Trump began before his first election. On September 23, 2016, reports surfaced that U.S. authorities were investigating Trump campaign figure Carter Page for possible ties to Russian influence operations. This was the first public story directly linking a Trump associate to Russia. Fusion GPS, the opposition-research firm hired by the Clinton campaign, had directed Christopher Steele to share his findings with the media as early as mid-September 2016, weeks before the election.

On October 7, 2016, DHS and Director of National Intelligence James Clapper issued a public statement attributing the hacking of Democratic officials and the WikiLeaks releases to Russian intelligence acting to benefit Trump. On January 10, 2017, BuzzFeed published the Steele dossier in full, the same day Jeff Sessions’s confirmation hearing began, triggering wall-to-wall media saturation of the Russia narrative. The FBI’s own investigation, Crossfire Hurricane, had been formally opened on July 31, 2016, though the Durham Report later concluded it lacked an adequate factual basis.

The Russia narrative, the claim that Trump was a foreign-installed puppet being blackmailed by Vladimir Putin, ran for Trump’s entire first term and shaped two impeachment proceedings. The Mueller Report found no evidence of criminal conspiracy. The Durham Report concluded the FBI launched its investigation without an adequate factual basis and applied a double standard not applied to the Clinton campaign. The narrative collapsed only after nearly three years of continuous coverage built on material that, as Durham confirmed, lacked a factual foundation from the start.

Despite Russiagate collapsing, the media still runs with it from time to time, ostensibly on slow news days. However, Trump’s second term has been more acutely shaped by media framing him as a tyrant and a threat to democracy. The Intercept ran a 2024 piece arguing Trump “represents an existential threat to democracy” and that the warning “must be repeated, over and over again.” NPR aired a segment in which a political scientist argued the press had an “obligation” to cover Trump as a threat to democracy in the same way it covers climate change, with no opposing view presented.

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ABC Not Firing Jimmy Kimmel After Melania ‘Widow’ Comments Feels Like Network Flipping Off Millions

Liberal TV network ABC has ignited volcanic backlash by refusing to fire “comedian” Jimmy Kimmel, who is continuing to recklessly incite violence against conservatives.

In refusing to curb Kimmel’s dangerous rhetoric, ABC made clear not only its toxic left-wing bias, but also its disregard for public safety and national security.

The brouhaha erupted on April 23, when Kimmel flippantly joked about the multiple assassination attempts on President Donald Trump by referring to first lady Melania Trump as an “expectant widow.”

Kimmel made the inane comments while performing a mock White House Correspondents’ Dinner skit on his late-night talk show.

During the sketch, the left-wing foghorn pretended to be speaking to attendees.

“Our first lady Melania is here… so beautiful,” Kimmel said. “Mrs. Trump, you have a glow like an expectant widow.”

This jab ignited renewed criticism when another presidential assassination attempt occurred two days later at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner in Washington, D.C.

On Monday, the first lady urged ABC to finally take a stand against political violence by ousting Kimmel.

“Kimmel’s hateful and violent rhetoric is intended to divide our country,” she wrote on X.

“People like Kimmel shouldn’t have the opportunity to enter our homes each evening to spread hate.”

“Enough is enough. It is time for ABC to take a stand,” Melania said.

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Trump warns Iran oil infrastructure could ‘explode’ as blockade halts exports

During an appearance on Fox News’ “The Sunday Briefing,” President Donald Trump asserted that Iran’s oil infrastructure is currently on the brink of a catastrophic failure that could materialize within the next three days.

He attributed this imminent collapse to a U.S. naval blockade in the Strait of Hormuz, which has effectively halted the nation’s ability to export its primary commodity.

Trump further explained that while Iranian facilities continue to produce oil, the lack of viable export routes has left the surplus with nowhere to go, creating immense physical and logistical pressure on the country’s internal storage and pipeline systems.

“When you have, you know, lines of vast amounts of oil pouring through your system, if for any reason that line is closed because you can’t continue to put it into containers or ships, which has happened to them — they have no ships because of the blockade — what happens is that line explodes from within, both mechanically and in the earth,” the president said.

Trump also warned that if these detrimental failures occur, the country will have to spend vast amounts of time and money rebuilding the impacted infrastructure, and other issues could still linger.

“It’s something that happens where it just explodes. And they say they only have about three days left before that happens. And when it explodes, you can never, regardless, you can never rebuild it the way it was,” Trump said.

Analysts believe that Iran could be forced to shut down its oil fields as early as April 29th due to the blockade, which could also impact the crude production long term.

“In other words, it will always be, if you rebuild it, it’s hard to rebuild it all, but it would only be about 50% of what it is right now,” Trump said, emphasizing that he believes Iran is ‘under pressure’ because of the situation.

Forced to divert its oil to onshore tanks, Tehran is quickly running out of storage, as the tanks are only able to hold so much, since its exports have been halted.

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‘The View’ Relish Trump and His Cabinet ‘Felt the Fear’ for Their Lives During WHCD, in Push for Gun Control

During Monday’s airing of ABC’s The View, host Ana Navarro led her co-hosts in relishing that President Donald Trump and his Cabinet “felt the fear” of death during Saturday’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner shooting, and might now be more open to gun control.

Newsbusters managing editor Curtis Houck posted an excerpt from the Disney-owned talk show, in which Navarro expressed bewilderment that Congress did not pass gun control after the December 14, 2012, Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. She then added, “But maybe now, that they have felt the fear themselves, they will do something.”

Navarro talked about the “important political leaders” who were at the White House Correspondents dinner and said, “Now they know, they’ve lived it in their own flesh, the fear that our school children go through.”

As Navarro talked, viewers could hear other hosts saying “yes” in agreement.

Breitbart News noted that Pennsylvania state Rep. and former Democratic Party Vice Chair Malcolm Kenyatta pushed a ban on “military-grade weapons” on Sunday, which was the day after the WHCD attack.

Kenyatta did not mention that the alleged WHCD attacker used a shotgun and pistol, neither of which were “military-grade weapons.” Therefore, the ban he proposed would not have prevented or even hindered the attack.

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 Democratic Congressman Appears to Blame Trump for Repeat Assassination Attempts

Democrats want to talk about rhetoric, but they cannot escape one damning fact.

Regardless of who uses what words, the bullets have only flown in one direction.

In the wake of Saturday’s alleged assassination attempt against President Donald Trump at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner in Washington, D.C., Democratic Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi of Illinois told CNN’s Pamela Brown that Trump bears special responsibility for the inflamed passions that have produced such acts of violence.

First, Brown played a clip of Trump commenting on political violence in general before blaming Democrats in particular.

Then, the CNN host asked the congressman for his comment.

“I think that definitely the rhetoric needs to cool,” Krishnamoorthi said in a clip posted to the social media platform X. “But remember his own rhetoric has inflamed the discourse in a way that we haven’t seen before.”

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Woman Seen Snatching Wine Bottles During Chaos After White House Correspondents’ Dinner Shooting

The annual White House Correspondents’ Dinner was thrown into chaos this weekend after a gunman reportedly opened fire near the event venue, sending guests scrambling for cover and triggering a massive security response.

But while law enforcement rushed to neutralize the threat and protect attendees, one viral moment was captured on camera.

Viral video footage, now exploding across X and conservative media, shows a woman in formal attire casually snatching multiple wine bottles from tables.

Other people were also seen taking selfies while holding bottles of wine in their hands.

New York Post reported:

Because the shooting took place early, during the salad portion of the marquee dinner, there was an abundance of wine left abandoned at tables across the ballroom.

The woman’s identity is not immediately clear, and it’s not apparent whether she was a journalist or some other guest.

Footage of the wine grab quickly went viral. But netizens were torn over whether snatching the wine was in poor taste given what could’ve been a tragic evening if the shooter wasn’t stopped, or a fiscally prudent move given the high price tag of the swanky dinner.

“So, there you have press members STEALING wine bottles: this is who the press is! Repugnant!” one user wrote, showing a video of the wine-loving attendee.

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Other attendees were similarly caught exiting the ballroom with bottles of wine after chaos engulfed the marquee DC dinner.

As The Gateway Pundit reported, the suspect, 31-year-old Cole Tomas Allen of Torrance, California, charged a security checkpoint armed with a shotgun, handgun, and knives.

He exchanged gunfire with law enforcement, striking a Secret Service agent who was saved only by his bulletproof vest.

Allen left behind a manifesto targeting Trump administration officials and mocked Secret Service “incompetence.” President Trump himself confirmed the agent was hit but is expected to recover.

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Democrat Congressman’s Slanderous Comments About Trump Come Back to Haunt Him After Deranged Terrorist Tries to Take Out the President 

A Democrat congressman who slandered President Trump earlier this year is being destroyed on X after a deranged terrorist seemingly inspired by his words tried to assassinate the president and members of the administration over the weekend.

As The Gateway Pundit reported, a heavily armed man stormed the lobby of the Washington Hilton Saturday night, sprinted past a Secret Service checkpoint and shot a Secret Service agent.

The shooter, identified as 31-year-old Cole Allen of Torrance, California, was taken into custody and charged with using a firearm during a crime of violence and assaulting a federal officer with a dangerous weapon.

Then, on Sunday, it was revealed that Allen wrote a manifesto and expressed his hatred for “p*dophile, r*pist” Trump.

It should come as no surprise that Allen was partially taking his cues from Democrat politicians. Conservatives on X on Sunday uncovered a video of Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA) accusing Trump of being a child r*pist during a press conference in February.

“Donald Trump is in the Epstein Files thousands and thousands of times,” Lieu says in the resurfaced video. “In those files, There’s highly disturbing allegations about Donald Trump r*ping children, of Donald Trump threatening to kill children.”

These words have now come back to bite Lieu. Americans, including a former U.S Senate candidate, quickly took to X to call for him to be expelled from Congress and arrested.

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