EXCLUSIVE: Trump Heads Back To Scene Of Assassination Attempt

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump will head back Friday to the Washington hotel where a man allegedly tried to kill him in late April, The Daily Wire can first report. Trump’s return to the Washington Hilton comes as he rallies religious voters ahead of the 2026 midterms.

Trump will speak at the 17th Faith and Freedom Coalition’s Road to Majority Conference on Friday morning, a White House official shared with The Daily Wire. A slew of other Trump officials will also speak, including Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought, and border czar Tom Homan.

The event will be held at the Washington Hilton, where, on April 25, a shooter named Cole Tomas Allen attempted to charge into the White House Correspondents’ Dinner and open fire on multiple top Trump administration officials, including the president, according to federal prosecutors.

Trump has not been at the hotel since the incident. A Secret Service official assured The Daily Wire that the agency is well prepared for his return.

“At every protective site, the U.S. Secret Service deploys a sophisticated, layered security framework that is custom-designed and continuously evolves to meet today’s heightened security environment,” the official said.

“While the existing security plan at the April 2026 White House Correspondents’ Dinner was effective in interdicting an identified threat, the agency continually reviews our security posture and will make adjustments, as necessary.”

Donald Trump addresses the Faith and Freedom Road to Majority Conference at the Washington Hilton in Washington, D.C., on June 22, 2024 (Photo by Andrew Leyden/NurPhoto via Getty Images).

The conference is expected to host more than 2,000 attendees and focus on inspiring and empowering conservatives to fight for America’s founding principles, with a strong emphasis on pro-family policy. Friday’s conference is specifically focused on mobilizing conservatives ahead of the midterm elections.

The Faith and Freedom Coalition has a massive outreach program that targets people of faith all over the United States, cognizant of the pivotal role that religious voters played in electing Trump in the 2024 election. Exit polling showed in 2024 that conservative Christian voters made up 33% of the electorate, with multiple polls showing that a majority of that group voted for Trump over Democratic candidate Kamala Harris.

Trump’s return to the Washington Hilton comes as his accused attempted assassin’s legal team argues that Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche and U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro should be removed from the case, since they were present at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner on the night of the attempted shooting.

U.S. District Judge Trevor McFadden rejected that request in an 18-page opinion earlier this week, saying that Blanche and Pirro “are unlikely to be trial witnesses, nor do they meet the legal definition of victims.”

“Their statements about the investigation and friendships with the President likewise present no basis for screening them from the case,” McFadden noted.

Authorities indicted Allen on four charges: attempting to assassinate the president, assault on an officer of the United States with a deadly weapon, transporting a firearm, and discharging a firearm during a crime of violence.

His manifesto describes how he was “no longer willing to permit a pedophile, rapist, and traitor to coat my hands with his crimes,” calling himself “Cole ‘coldForce'” and “Friendly Federal Assassin Allen.”

He is the fourth known person to attempt to assassinate Donald Trump: Thomas Matthew Crooks shot at Trump during his Butler, Pennsylvania rally in July 2024, Ryan Wesley Routh attempted to shoot Trump on September 15, 2024, and Austin Tucker Martin was shot and killed by authorities as he attempted to breach Mar-a-Lago in February 2026. Crooks was also killed by authorities, and Routh is serving a life sentence in prison.

The White House Correspondents’ Dinner has been rescheduled for July 24, at the Waldorf Astoria in downtown Washington, D.C. Weijia Jiang, the president of the White House Correspondents’ Association, said the rescheduled event will take place with “significantly enhanced safety measures and new access procedures.”