There was a lot of confusion in the initial hours after the shooting at the White House Correspondents Association Dinner at the Washington Hilton on Saturday night.But it soon became clear that the suspect,Cole Allen, a 31-year-old teacher from Torrance, California, had rabid anti-Trump views and was there to target Trump administration officials.
While the usual suspects on the left are issuing standard statements condemning violence, there’s a real concern that the left will lionize Allen. And even former Obama official and current CNN pundit Van Jones is concerned about it.
"I'm starting to worry about something,” Jones said. “Which is that the shooter survived, which means on Monday he's going to court, which means there is a danger that people try to make him some sort of hero."
He wasn't being paranoid. He was being prescient. And he didn't stop there.
"You watch what happened with Luigi, who shot a CEO to death, and somehow became a hero," Jones continued. " So, they said tonight you saw the worst of America. You saw the best of America. Tonight, you definitely saw the best of America. I hope on Monday we don’t see the worst again. I just want to say very clearly — this kind of despicable behavior has no place in America. It has no place on the right. It has no place on the left.”
He added, “This kind of behavior has no place in America. And it is wrong. Violence is not the way to resolve any grievances. And this cheerleader culture for violence, for people who think that the answer to our problems is to go shooting billionaires or going to synagogues or all these different things, has to be called out immediately. The minute it starts, every single person with the platform must denounce it, or we’re going to see this again.”
CNN Van Jones actually gets things right regarding the WHCD shooter.pic.twitter.com/wySCKHz5hv
When Luigi Mangione was arrested in December 2024 for the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, the radical left treated him like a celebrity. Within days of the shooting, social media flooded with memes casting Mangione as a modern-day vigilante, a working-class avenger striking back against the healthcare system.
Online stores moved T-shirts. A fundraiser for his legal defense pulled in thousands. Even theSaturday Night Liveaudiencecheered when Mangione’s name was mentioned during a Weekend Update segment.
Mainstream journalists didn't exactly pump the brakes either. CNN's Kaitlan Collins, a White House correspondent no less,casually directed her audience to Mangione's legal defense website.
Source: ZeroHedge News
