No longer willing to permit rapist...: What White House event shooter said in note

Trump, reacting to the White House shooting suspect's manifesto, dismissed the sexual violence allegations as "radicalised" rhetoric. In an interview, he slammed the media for amplifying the claims and strongly denied them, saying, "I'm not a rapist. I didn't rape anybody."

In Short

• Suspect shared manifesto with family 10 minutes before shooting incident
• The note used the terms paedophile, rapist, and traitor in anger
• It said he would not let another person's crimes stain him

The 31-year-old suspect arrested for opening fire at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner allegedly prepared and sent an anti-Trump manifesto to his family members, in which he used the words “paedophile, rapist, and traitor.”

“I am no longer willing to permit a paedophile, rapist, and traitor to coat my hands with his crimes,” the shooting suspect, Cole Allen, allegedly wrote in the anti-Trump manifesto, without naming any official or Trump in particular.

Following the breach incident, Trump, in an interview with CBS’s 60 Minutes, brushed off the allegations of sexual violence against him, calling it a “radicalised” manifesto.

Slamming the media as “horrible people” for reading out the suspect’s rhetoric, Trump said, “Yeah, he did write that. I’m not a rapist. I didn’t rape anybody.”

When the interviewer asked a follow-up question on whether Trump believed the suspect was referring to him, Trump said: “I’m not a paedophile. Excuse me. Excuse me. I’m not a paedophile. You read that crap from some sick person? I got associated with all stuff that has nothing to do with me. I was totally exonerated.”

Investigators are currently combing through the suspect’s manifesto. The White House has said it was clear from the manifesto that the suspect intended to target officials in the Trump administration.

On Saturday night, Trump and his officials were whisked away to safety after gunshots were heard outside the White House Correspondents’ Dinner.

According to authorities, the incident occurred outside the ballroom, and the suspect was taken into custody near a staircase after he fired once or twice.

WHAT WAS IN THE MANIFESTO

The man accused of opening fire at a high-profile White House Correspondents’ Dinner allegedly sent a disturbing manifesto to his family just minutes before the attack, in which he referred to himself as an assassin and invoked a hypothetical Iranian operative slipping through security undetected.

The 31-year-old Cole Tomas Allen, who allegedly launched the attack at the White House gala event, described himself in the document as the “Friendly Federal Assassin” and used the example of an Iranian agent to argue that the event’s security was dangerously lax and could be easily bypassed, according to a New York Post report.

Allen's manifesto also laid out his intent to target Trump administration officials and included repeated references to political violence. A US official told The New York Post that the document named officials as targets "from highest-ranking to lowest", while excluding FBI Director Kash Patel.

Furthermore, he also detailed his approach to the attack, saying he intended to use buckshot instead of slugs to limit wall penetration, but added that he would still proceed through others in the room if necessary.

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