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The armed man who breached security at a press dinner attended by US President Donald Trump detailed his motives in a manifesto, naming US officials as targets\u00a0\u201cprioritized from highest-ranking to lowest.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n The attacker, identified as 31-year-old California teacher Cole Allen, sent a note to relatives around ten minutes before Saturday\u2019s attack at the White House Correspondents\u2019 Dinner at the Washington Hilton in Washington, according to the New York Post, which first published the text.<\/p>\n In the 1,052-word manifesto, signed Cole \u2018coldForce\u2019 \u2018Friendly Federal Assassin\u2019 Allen, the suspect described himself as a\u00a0\u201chalf-black, half-white\u201d<\/em>\u00a0American citizen and framed his actions as a matter of personal responsibility to hold the government accountable.<\/p>\n \u201cAnd I am no longer willing to permit a pedophile, rapist, and traitor to coat my hands with his crimes,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0he wrote, identifying Trump administration officials \u2013 explicitly excluding FBI Director Kash Patel \u2013 as targets\u00a0\u201cprioritized from highest-ranking to lowest.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n