
Justice Dept. Backs Pretrial Detention for Trump Assassin Suspect
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Justice Department backs pretrial detention for Cole Tomas Allen, charged with attempting to assassinate President Trump. Mirror selfie from hotel room, taken before the attack, serves as evidence of premeditation. Allen faces charges for attempted assassination, gun and ammo possession, and firing during a violent crime. Prosecutors hint more charges may follow.
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Entertainment & Celebrity News Today | 2 Min News | The Daily News Now! — Justice Dept. Backs Pretrial Detention for Trump Assassin Suspect. Machine-transcribed; use the interactive transcript above to jump the player to any line.
It's April 29th. Welcome to Entertainment and Celebrity News today, powered by AI and packed with headlines. Just as the department just dropped a memo, backing pre-trial detention for Cole Thomas Allen. The guy charged with trying to assassinate President Trump at the White House correspondence dinner this Saturday. They attached a mirror selfie he snapped in his hotel room right before the attack, calling his moves premeditated and deadly. To pick, time stamped 803 PM. Just after the dinner kicked off shows him decked out with a leather bag full of ammo, a shoulder holster, sheath knife, and tools like pliers and wire cutters, all matching gear cops recovered from him later. Officials say no release conditions could keep the public safe, pointing to how calculated it was. Right before striking, Allen hunted for live streams of the President's speech and fired off a message to family and a few others laying out his plan. He's facing charges where attempted assassination, hauling a gun and ammo across state lines
to commit a felony, and firing during a violent crime. Prosecutors' hand more counts could drop soon. This filing ramps up the case against him, with the court now weighing full lockdown until trial-eye state glued as it unfolds.
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