There was definitely a Christian Nationalist angle being played out with regard to the White House Correspondents’ Dinner shooter’s manifesto. United States ruler, and Christian Nationalist, Donald Trump described the suspect as a “sick man” who “hated Christians,” while dismissing the accusations, in an interview with CBS’s ‘60 Minutes’.
Trump snapped and called the host of 60 Minutes, Norah O’Donnell, a “disgrace” for reading the shooter’s manifesto on air. He also said that the shooter was a Christian, but isn’t one anymore, and because of that, he was “probably a pretty sick guy.”
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In the 1,052-word manifesto, signed by Cole “coldForce” “Friendly Federal Assassin” Allen, the suspect described himself as a “half-black, half-white” American citizen and claimed that his actions were a matter of personal responsibility in an attempt to hold the government accountable.
Allen, a Torrance-based tutor and mechanical engineering graduate who also worked as a game developer, had no prior criminal record and is believed to have acted alone, according to investigators. Officials said he had legally purchased firearms, trained regularly at a shooting range, and traveled from Los Angeles to Washington by train before checking into the Hilton. His sister reportedly told investigators that he had spoken about doing something to fix the world. –RT
Referring repeatedly to his supposed Christian faith, the gunman went on to address anticipated criticism of his actions with a list of “rebuttals.”
“Turning the other cheek is for when you yourself are oppressed. I’m not the person raped in a detention camp. I’m not the fisherman executed without trial. I’m not a schoolkid blown up or a child starved or a teenage girl abused by the many criminals in this administration,” Allen wrote, in apparent reference to grievances including strikes on Venezuela-linked boats, the US attack on an Iranian girls’ school, immigration enforcement, and the Jeffrey Epstein case.
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“I read the manifesto. He’s radicalized. He was a Christian, a believer, and then he became an anti-Christian… he was probably a pretty sick guy,” Trump said.
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