WHCA Dinner shooting suspect Cole Allen pleads not guilty, judge scoffs at defense’s power play

The antheral accused of attempting to termination President Donald Trump connected April 25 astatine the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner entered a plea successful a Washington, D.C., national tribunal Monday greeting to 4 charges related to the alleged crime.

Cole Allen, 31, of Torrance, California, pleaded not blameworthy to attempting to assassinate the president of the United States, discharge of a firearm during a transgression of violence, transporting a firearm crossed authorities lines and assaulting a national serviceman with a deadly weapon.

President Donald Trump posted a photograph connected societal media showing instrumentality enforcement detaining Cole Thomas Allen pursuing a shooting incidental astatine the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner successful Washington, D.C., connected April 25, 2026. (US President Trump via Truth Social/Anadolu/Getty Images)

More charges are possible, according to U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro.

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But Allen's defence attorneys privation Pirro and her bureau removed from the case, citing a "conflict of interest" stemming from the information that Pirro was a unfortunate if their client's alleged crime, they said successful a tribunal filing connected Friday.

They besides cited Pirro's idiosyncratic relationship with Trump.

"As this lawsuit proceeds person to trial, the state and the satellite volition proceed to wonder—how tin the American justness strategy licence a unfortunate to prosecute a transgression suspect successful a lawsuit involving them?" the question asks. "Or even—how tin 1 of the victim’s closest friends prosecute the alleged perpetrator of the offense? Given U.S. Attorney Pirro’s relationship with the President and her and Acting A.G. Blanche’s attendance astatine the lawsuit astatine the halfway of this prosecution, the instrumentality necessitates their disqualification."

Eugene Ohm, Allen's nationalist defender, told Judge Trevor McFadden on Monday that it's apt they would inquire for Pirro's full bureau to beryllium taken disconnected the case.

However, Ohm said it was improbable they would inquire for the full Department of Justice to beryllium forced disconnected the lawsuit arsenic portion of the Blanche request.

"That would beryllium rather a request," McFadden said.

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