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Susan Kokinda links a third assassination attempt on Donald Trump at the Washington Hilton - where a 31-year-old Californian, Cole Tomas Allen, charged a Secret Service checkpoint with firearms and knives - to a broader political struggle she frames as the British imperial system versus Trump’s “American System.”
She argues Trump’s own remarks about assassinations point to a pattern of targeting “impactful” leaders, comparing today’s climate to anarchist-era killings around 1900 and the 1901 assassination of William McKinley.
Kokinda ties the attack’s timing to King Charles’ Washington visit, a new book, The Queen and Her Presidents, and a House of Lords/Chatham House report on “rebalancing” the UK–US partnership, highlighting UK dependence on the postwar “rules-based order” and concerns about a lasting US shift under Trump.
Chapters
00:00 The Monday Brief - Intro - April 27, 2026
02:42 The Third Attempt
06:42 The Hidden Hand
10:35 The Lords Confess
