(Adnkronos) – “I don’t understand why people are surprised that the United States is torn apart: I’m pretty sure this is the result of having a traitor at the helm.” This is what a Bluesky user, a social platform popular among the American left, posted last March, using the pseudonym ‘coldforce’, the same one that appears in the signature of what investigators consider the manifesto and claim of Cole Tomas Allen, the 31-year-old computer scientist accused of attempting to assassinate Donald Trump last Saturday during the White House Correspondents Dinner.
In addition to the signature on the letter sent to family members – Cole “coldForce” “Friendly Federal Assassin” Allen – there are other elements that lead investigators to link the @coldforce.bsky.social account to Allen. According to the New York Times, the user identifies as Protestant and claims to work as a teacher, to be “just a regular Californian guy” and to have attended “two different, non-religious universities in California.”
Allen is from Torrance, a suburb of Los Angeles, attended the California Institute of Technology and California State University, was active in the campus Christian group, and recently worked as a tutor.
CNN also analyzed the presence of ‘coldforce’- Allen, starting from his activity on X in recent years where tweets shifted from being primarily focused on video games – like those in 2022 where he reviewed popular ones – to increasingly angry political messages, particularly in 2024 with posted or reposted tweets comparing Trump to Hitler, claiming the Pennsylvania attack was a setup, and calling for his election victory to be overturned.
From February 2025, posts on Bluesky began, always criticizing Trump and powerful people who do nothing to stop him. “Everyone knows by now that Trump is a f***ing horrible person in many ways and no one does anything,” he wrote last April in one of the 700 posts that CNN analyzed in the social media’s online archives. The ‘coldForce’ account has been blocked, Bluesky announced yesterday in a statement, saying it violated the company’s policies prohibiting posts that “spread misinformation, glorify violence or harm.”
In one of the last posts, published last month, ‘coldforce’ seemed to express a desire to take action: “the most important question is when adults in America will understand that it is no longer sustainable to stand still and wait for someone else to do something that doesn’t work. I can’t remember the last time I saw someone take responsibility for solving a problem.”
