Video shows Cole Allen scouting hotel, storming checkpoint in alleged Trump assassination attempt
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Dramatic surveillance video released Thursday shows alleged would-be assassin Cole Tomas Allen scouting out a hallway at the Washington Hilton Hotel on April 24, and then the next evening, storming through a Secret Service checkpoint at that hotel outside the…
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Dramatic surveillance video released Thursday shows alleged would-be assassin Cole Tomas Allen scouting out a hallway at the Washington Hilton Hotel on April 24, and then the next evening, storming through a Secret Service checkpoint at that hotel outside the…
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