Former Trump Ally Accuses President of 'Using' Latest Assassination Attempt in a Key Way

One of Donald Trump‘s most vocal allies accused him of “using” the latest attempt on his life to distract the American people.

The 79-year-old president was rushed out of the 2026 White House Correspondents’ Dinner at the Washington Hilton on Saturday evening (April 25) after shots were fired. The alleged shooter was identified as Cole Thomas Allen.

However, in the aftermath of the shooting, one of Trump‘s former supporters spoke out about the incident and implied that he’d take advantage of it to pass an unpopular bill.

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The president’s outspoken former ally was Marjorie Taylor Greene, the former congresswoman from Georgia who broke with Trump in late 2025 and resigned from Congress.

“The President is using his war on Iran and last night’s WHCD shooting as excuses to give up your rights so that Congress just passes a clean extension of FISA 702,” Greene implied in a post on X.

She continued, adding, “It’s ridiculous and absurd that any President who has sworn an oath to uphold the constitution would ever tell Americans to give up your rights so the government has the ability to spy on you, especially a government that has already done it to not only him, but to hundreds of thousands of Americans.”

“And what’s even more ridiculous is that Congress can easily re-authorize FISA 702 with warrant requirements to protect American citizens rights and still be able to go after terrorist,” she wrote. “The questions you should be asking is why is this so hard for them and why would the President of the United States demand a clean re-authorization of FISA 702 without warrant requirements???”

FISA 702 refers to a section of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which is set to expire on April 30, NPR reported.

The outlet explained that the section “allows U.S. intelligence agencies to intercept the electronic communications of foreign nationals located outside of the United States. Some of the nearly 350,000 foreign targets whose communications are collected under the provision are in touch with Americans, whose calls, texts and emails could end up in the trove of information available to the federal government for review.”

It’s a controversial measure as a warrant is not currently required to access the information shared by U.S. citizens.

At the moment, the president does not appear to have referenced FISA 702 since the shooting occurred. However, NPR noted that he has previously encouraged an extension on the measure to be passed.

In another post on X, Greene also questioned why the alleged shooter’s manifesto was released.

“I’m 1,000% for releasing the manifesto. I’m for releasing all shooter’s information including what SSRI’s they are on, if any, all meds or drugs,” she wrote. “But I want to know why the Trump admin released Cole Allen’s manifesto immediately but they still keep a tight lid on Thomas Crooks,” referring to Matthew Thomas Crooks who died in an alleged assassination attempt on the president in 2024. “Thomas Crooks is dead and actually did shoot Trump in the face (ear which is part of the face) so why is all of his info/files totally sealed. It shouldn’t be.”

She added, “But a lot of info including the manifesto of Cole Allen, who is still alive, gets released immediately.”