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Background Briefing: April 27, 2026

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After Trump Assassinated Leaders Abroad, an American Citizen Struck Back Saying He Is “No Longer Willing to Permit a Pedophile, Rapist, and Traitor to Coat My Hands With His Crimes” 

We begin with the arraignment today of Cole Allen who is charged with an attempt to assassinate President Trump. Before his shootout with the Secret Service on Saturday night he wrote a 1,000 word manifesto which the White House is trying to spin as being anti-Christian when it is clear Cole Allen is a devout Christian who explained why he did it saying “I am a citizen of the United States of America. What my representatives do reflects on me. And I am no longer willing to permit a pedophile, rapist, and traitor to coat my hands with his crimes.” Joining us is Ken Klippenstein, an American journalist reporting on the U.S. national security state and politics. He previously was an investigative reporter at The Intercept and prior to that was the D.C. Correspondent at The Nation, and a senior reporter for The Young Turks. He now runs the popular Substack at KenKlippenstein.com where his latest article we discuss is, “Assassin Wasn’t on FBI’s Radar, Sources Say.”

 

Are Our Allies Separating From Us or is a Divorce Underway?

Then we look into Trump’s destruction of America’s alliances and the extent to which a separation or a divorce is underway and speak with Charles Kupchan, who was director for European Affairs on the National Security Council during the Clinton administration. He is now a professor of International Affairs in Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service, and spent the last 3 years of the Obama administration as Special Assistant to President Obama for National Security. He is the author of Power in Transition: The Peaceful Change of International Order, and How Enemies Become Friends: The Sources of Stable Peace, and his latest book is Isolationism: A History of America’s Efforts to Shield Itself from the World.

 

Do the CIA Deaths in Mexico Mean Trump is Playing With Fire?

Then finally we investigate what the CIA is doing operating in Mexico with State Counter-narcotics agents following the recent deaths of two CIA officers in Chihuahua who appear to have been operating without the consent of the Mexican federal government. Joining us to discuss whether Trump might act on his many threats against Mexican sovereignty is Juan David Rojas, a journalist based in South Florida specializing in Latin America and a Non-Resident Fellow in Transnational Organized Crime at the Orion Policy Institute. He is a columnist at Compact and his works can be found at UnHerd, American Affairs, Zeteo among other outlets. He is also the author of the newsletter, “Social Democracy With Populist Characteristics” on Substack and he has an article at Responsible Statecraft we discuss “CIA deaths in Mexico: Is Trump playing with fire?”