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A TV interview from 9 years in the past has resurfaced with the alleged gunman who opened fire at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner on April 25.

Cole Allen was interviewed by ABC7 LA in 2017 while he was a pupil at the California Institute of Technology learning mechanical engineering. In the video, he explained a new security characteristic that he designed for wheelchairs.

“The wheelchair breaks tend to lock the wheels but don’t actually lock the chair to the ground,” he explained to the digital camera. “The idea with this is to prevent it from moving at all.” It seems to show Allen in a very different gentle after it was reported that he despatched an anti-Donald Trump manifesto to his household prior to the shooting.

Fox News shared the video on its web site after Allen was named as the alleged shooter. Viewers of the community took to the feedback part to share their ideas.

Commenters fought about whether or not or not Allen was left-leaning or MAGA. But one individual identified that they believed it did not matter.

“I don’t think either side can claim him,” the individual said. “The bigger question is how does he in 9 years time go from this to a guy running through a hallway trying to get to a president in a mountain of security and personnel? How does that happen?”

Another individual added, “How sad to throw his life away, what was he thinking??”

A 3rd questioned, “What happened to a creative potentially inventive and successful guy that decided to change and commit evil acts?”

The manifesto that Allen despatched to his household refered to himself as the “Friendly Federal Assassin,” and alluded that he needed to kill officers in Trump’s administration.

“I am no longer willing to permit a pedophile, rapist, and traitor to coat my hands with his crimes,” Allen apparently wrote in the manifesto, referring to Trump’s many allegations—which the president has denied.

Trump spoke about the manifesto during an interview on 60 Minutes that aired the day after the shooting occurred. He told CBS News senior correspondent Norah O’Donnell that she and CBS have been “horrible people” for studying out half of the manifesto.