Feds investigate thousands of suspected social media posts by alleged would-be Trump assassin: reports

Federal investigators are scrutinizing thousands of social media posts where the man accused of trying to kill President Donald Trump at the White House Correspondent's Association dinner is believed to have called him a "traitor" and complained that he was going unchecked.

Authorities suspect Cole Tomas Allen, 31, hid behind the usernames "CForce3000" on X and "coldforce" on Bluesky, where he raged against Trump online, according to reports.

“Everyone already knows trump is a f****** awful person in multiple dimensions and no one has done s***,” “coldforce” wrote in April 2025, according to CNN.

Another post, from May 2025, accused the U.S. government of "treasonous behavior...that's not fixable with laws, the New York Times reported.

Allen "used the moniker 'cold force' in multiple online accounts" and referred to himself as "coldForce" in the emailed manifesto he allegedly sent to relatives before Saturday night's botched attack at the Washington Hilton hotel, according to the criminal complaint filed against him Monday in U.S. District Court in Washington.

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The Independent has reached out to FBI about the investigation into the posts.

The suspect allegedly wrote in his manifesto that he was "no longer willing to permit a pedophile, rapist, and traitor to coat my hands with his crimes" and that all members of Trump's administration were "targets, prioritized from highest-ranking to lowest."

Allen, who's accused of traveling from California by train before checking into the hotel on Friday, allegedly ran through a Secret Service checkpoint while armed with a shotgun, handgun and three knives before he was arrested outside the ballroom following an exchange of gunfire.

A senior Justice Department official confirmed that Allen used the since-deleted X account, according to CNN, which said it reviewed more than 4,000 posts that are archived online.

The Bluesky account is also no longer online but more than 700 posts have been archived, according to CNN, which said Allen apparently began posting on that website in February 2025, shortly after the start of Trump's second term.

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“Put a traitor BACK in office, get treason like, I don’t understand why people are surprised by the US ripping itself apart,” “coldforce” wrote in a message last month. “I’m pretty sure that’s the expected outcome of having a traitor at the helm.”

In addition to the "coldforce" username, the profile of the Bluesky user lines up with Allen, according to the New York Times, which said the user self-identified as a "random Californian guy" who attended "two different, secular, California-based universities," is Protestant and worked as a teacher.

Allen is from Torrance, California, attended the California Institute of Technology and California State University, Dominguez Hills, was active in a campus Christian fellowship and tutored for a test-prep company, the Times said.

Allen didn't enter a plea during his arraignment Monday on three felonies, including attempt to assassinate the president of the United States. He's being held without bond pending a detention hearing on Thursday.

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