Trump attack defendant Cole Allen under harsher jail conditions than Jan. 6 defendants: judge

A video still showing Cole Allen at the gym at the Hilton ahead of the White House Correspondents' Association dinner. Courtesy: USAttyPirro An irritated federal judge on Monday said it appeared that Cole Allen, the man accused of trying to assassinate President Donald Trump at the White House Correspondents' Association dinner, has been treated more harshly by a jail than it treated defendants in Jan. 6, 2021, attack criminal cases. "I can tell you I have never had a January 6th defendant who was put in 5-point restraints or a safe cell," Magistrate Judge Zia Faruqui told prosecutors during a hearing in U.S. District Court in Washington. Faruqui said he found it "extremely disturbing" and was "very troubled" that the 31-year-old Allen had been placed under suicide watch and had restrictions imposed without a finding that he was at risk for suicide and without having a criminal history. "A lot of people have seemed to forget about Jan. 6, but I have not," Faruqui said. "Pardons erase convictions but do not erase history." Allen's lawyer Eugene Jeen-Young Kim Ohm said officials at the D.C. jail placed Allen in a safe, padded cell, in essentially a 24-hour lockdown, with constant lighting. Allen was told he could not make a legal call over the weekend, was not able to have paperwork or legal work in his room and was denied a Bible that he had requested, the attorney told Faruqui. "It just doesn't add up," Faruqui said, asking how the D.C. …