Overview
- Cole Tomas Allen, 31, has been charged with attempting to assassinate President Trump after gunfire near the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, a Saturday incident at the Washington Hilton that left a Secret Service agent struck in a vest.
- Erika Kirk, who attended the press gala, criticized reporters for filming during the chaos and said she went to confront journalists she believes have dehumanized her.
- Kirk linked the suspect’s reported job as a schoolteacher to what she calls systemic indoctrination, saying that pattern mirrors what led to her husband Charlie Kirk’s September 2025 killing, for which Tyler Robinson is charged.
- Kirk also condemned a Druski parody and Jimmy Kimmel’s joke about Melania Trump, while Candace Owens denied Kirk’s claim that she accused her of murder after a TPUSA spokesman shared a text Owens described as a joke.
- Kirk said she will take time with her family, and Turning Point USA postponed a campus tour stop to the fall, as the WHCD case proceeds in court and a wider fight over media conduct and rhetoric intensifies.