In Trump assassination attempt, we need the dog’s story
Surveillance footage of an alleged assassination attempt on President Donald Trump revealed new details, including the behavior of a bomb-detection dog that appeared to track the suspect before the attack. The suspect, Cole Allen, was seen entering a side room and emerging without his coat, armed with a shotgun, just after the dog and its handler walked away. The dog's reaction and the handler's decisions in the moments before the incident may be critical to understanding how the security breach occurred.
- ▪Cole Allen was charged with attempting to assassinate President Donald Trump during the April 25 White House Correspondents’ Association dinner.
- ▪A clearer surveillance video showed a bomb-detection dog reacting to Allen before he emerged armed and ran through a security checkpoint.
- ▪The dog’s handler appeared to call the dog back from the room and walked away moments before Allen burst out with a loaded shotgun.
- ▪Allen was carrying a 12-gauge pump action shotgun, a .38 caliber pistol, and multiple ammunition supplies concealed under his coat.
- ▪Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, released the enhanced video and referred to the dog as a bomb-detection canine.
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IN TRUMP ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT, WE NEED THE DOG’S STORY. The initially released surveillance video of the alleged attempt to assassinate President Donald Trump was blurry and incomplete. Posted a short time after the incident, it showed Cole Allen, the accused would-be assassin, charging a security site at the April 25 White House Correspondents’ Association dinner in Washington. The fuzzy images showed the suspect, shotgun in hand, dashing through the metal detectors that had screened people going into the dinner but were being disassembled. The video did nothing to explain what happened before or after. Then, after Allen was charged with attempting to assassinate the president, Jeanine Pirro, the U.S.
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