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Cole Allen and the White House Correspondents Dinner Gun Scare
from Alien Invasion & Trapped Trump | The Tim Dillon Show #494 · #494
3 min
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Tim discusses Cole Allen, a Caltech mechanical engineer who allegedly ran into the White House Correspondents' Dinner venue with a weapon, contrasting his prior wholesome work on a wheelchair emergency brake with the shocking incident, and plays news clips about him.
- A Caltech mechanical engineer had a mental break and tried to run through the White House Correspondents Dinner hotel with a weapon.
- Tim notes the contradiction: a functioning productive member of society who suddenly wrote a manifesto and grabbed a gun to run into the Hilton.
- Tim relates to mental health fragility through his mother's schizophrenia, describing how deterioration happens over years, not suddenly.
- Cole Allen had previously developed a prototype wheelchair emergency brake and pitched it at a senior health innovation conference.
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