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The man accused of running past Secret Service with loaded firearms and knives in an attempt to kill President Donald Trump during the White House Correspondent\u2019s Dinner last month pleaded not guilty to the four charges he faces.<\/p>\n

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Prosecutors say Cole Tomas Allen on April 26 stormed through a security checkpoint at the hotel where the annual press dinner was being held while the president and top administration officials were on a different floor.<\/p>\n

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Allen appeared before a federal judge in Washington, DC, on Monday, hands and feet shackled together and stood by his attorney as they entered the not guilty plea on his behalf.<\/p>\n

He has been indicted on charges including attempting to assassinate a president and assaulting an officer.<\/p>\n

The judge presiding over the case, Trump-appointed Trevor McFadden, pressed Allen\u2019s attorneys on an earlier motion they had made seeking to remove US Attorney for DC Jeanine Pirro and other administration officials from the case.<\/p>\n

Allen\u2019s attorneys argued that because Pirro and others were at the dinner and may have been targets according to their version of events, she should be recused from the case.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe assume a lot about how victims feel,\u201d defense attorney Eugene Ohm said during Monday\u2019s hearing, adding that Pirro is \u201cvery close friends with Trump\u201d and should be removed for that alone.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI\u2019d be very surprised if they were victims in any legal sense,\u201d McFadden said, noting that they did not see the incident.<\/p>\n

Ohm said he wanted more information on how Pirro\u2019s office, which is prosecuting Allen, is structured in order to determine if the entire office should also be recused.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIt\u2019s likely we will be asking for the entire office\u201d to be removed from the case, Ohm said, adding that Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche should also be recused because of his presence at the dinner.<\/p>\n

McFadden, appearing skeptical, said removing the entire DC US Attorney office \u201cwould be quite a request\u201d and told prosecutors to file their response and provide a definitive view on whether Pirro and Blanche were victims.<\/p>\n

The next hearing in the case is set for June 29.<\/p>\n

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