The Man Who Tried to Crash the White House Correspondents’ Dinner
By the time the first champagne flutes hit the carpet at the Washington Hilton on Saturday night, Cole Tomas Allen was already on the floor, shirtless and handcuffed, his face pressed against the marble just metres from the magnetometers that had failed to stop him. President Donald Trump, moments earlier ushered off the stage by Secret Service agents as gunfire echoed through the lobby, would later post the image himself on Truth Social: a pale, dishevelled 31-year-old Californian, surrounded by tactical boots. “The man has been captured,” Trump declared shortly afterwards. “A very sick person.” What authorities and journalists have…