“Something A Random Nut Does”

Anyone suggesting we should stop accurately pointing out factual ways that the president is wrecking this country on a daily basis, or expressing an opinion about that, because of something a random nut does is espousing a profoundly un-American concept that I completely reject.

— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) April 26, 2026

About that “random nut:”

The New York Post claimed Sunday to have obtained a copy of a manifesto written by the suspected shooter who disrupted the White House Correspondents’ Dinner (WHCD) Saturday night, in which the gunman names every Trump administration official as a target – except for one, and without explanation as to the lone exclusion.

The suspected gunman was soon identified as 31-year-old California resident Cole Allen, who police said had rushed through a Secret Service checkpoint at the event bearing a shotgun, a handgun and several knives. Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche later said Allen was believed to be targeting Trump administration officials.

On Sunday, the Post published what they claimed to be Allen’s manifesto in full, which Allen had sent to family members 10 minutes before the shooting, according to the Post.

“I am no longer willing to permit a pedophile, rapist, and traitor to coat my hands with his crimes,” the suspected shooter wrote in his manifesto, an apparent reference to President Donald Trump, according to the Post.

Allen then went on to name his list of targets, which excluded just one Trump administration official: FBI Director Kash Patel.

As the man said, there’s no accounting for taste. 

Still, “pedophile, rapist, and traitor;” isn’t that the language of Q-Anon? The people who demanded Trump release the Epstein files until he finally promised to? Until he won the election, and suddenly they were a “Democrat hoax”? Mostly because of all the pictures and letters and documentation of a decade long (at least) relationship between Trump and Epstein?

I don’t know who this guy is, but pedophiles in government has been the central obsession of Q-Anon for a decade or so. And Q-Anon was never confused with “the Left.” Well, until it was convenient to do so. Which is now, I guess.

And while Stephen Miller has blamed the Democrats for immigration and non-white people and people who don’t think like Stephen Miller still living here, and said Democrats are trying to replace the “right” white people and destroy America, I’ve yet to hear a prominent Democrat call Trump a pedophile (although he is an adjudicated rapist). So I’m still unclear how Democratic rhetoric led to this “random nut” storming the magnetometer last night.*

*Clearly confusing carefully choreographed action movie sequences with real life, which is somewhat forgivable. Lots of non-“nuts” think possessing a gun makes them the hero of their own action movie, too. Fortunately, few such ever find out how wrong they are. What makes you a nut is thinking you can take on the Secret Service and law enforcement.