So a 31-year-old teacher named Cole Allen attended “No Kings” anti-Trump rallies, wrote a manifesto listing Trump administration officials as targets “prioritized from highest-ranking to lowest,” showed up to the White House Correspondents’ Dinner armed to the teeth with multiple firearms and knives, and shot a Secret Service officer in the chest.

But yeah, the media wants us to believe the motive is “unclear.” Real head-scratcher, that one.

Here’s what we know. Allen’s own brother called the cops on him before the attack. The brother found a manifesto in a hotel room in New London that literally spelled out who he wanted to kill and in what order. The guy ranked administration officials like a fantasy football draft — except instead of quarterbacks, he was ranking human beings he wanted to murder.

And before any of this happened, Allen was out marching at “No Kings” rallies. You know, those cute little gatherings where Democrats cosplay as revolutionaries and scream about how Trump is a dictator. The ones where they wave signs and chant slogans that would get a conservative investigated by the FBI if the roles were reversed.

So let’s connect the dots that the media is pretending don’t exist. Guy goes to anti-Trump rallies. Guy writes a manifesto targeting Trump officials by rank. Guy shows up armed to an event crawling with Trump administration officials. Guy shoots a Secret Service officer.

What part of this is confusing? What part requires further investigation into “motive”?

According to CBS News — not exactly a right-wing outlet — Allen told law enforcement directly that he wanted to target Trump administration officials. He said it. Out loud. To cops. With his mouth. And somehow we’re still getting headlines with question marks in them.

(Funny how when a guy in a MAGA hat jaywalks, the media has the motive nailed down before he hits the curb. But a leftist radical with a literal kill list? “We may never understand his reasons.”)

Thank God the Secret Service officer who took a round to the vest survived. That body armor did exactly what it was designed to do, and that officer is a hero. But we got lucky. This wasn’t a confused loner who wandered into the wrong building. This was a radicalized ideologue who attended political rallies calling the President a king who needed to be stopped — and then tried to stop him with bullets.

President Trump acknowledged the situation, saying he was aware of “the New London situation” and was concerned it wasn’t communicated to him sooner. Which raises another fun question — why wasn’t the President immediately briefed when a manifesto targeting his officials was discovered in a hotel room? Somebody dropped the ball, and we’d better find out who.

But back to the media. Watch what happens over the next 48 hours. They’ll memory-hole the rally attendance. They’ll downplay the manifesto. They’ll find a childhood friend who says he was “quiet” and “kept to himself.” They’ll interview a college professor who says he showed “no signs.” The playbook writes itself at this point.

Meanwhile, if you or I posted something half as threatening as what was in that manifesto on social media, the FBI would be kicking down our door before lunch. But a guy who physically attended anti-Trump rallies and then carried out exactly the kind of violence those rallies fantasize about? Suddenly everyone needs more time to “gather facts.”

We don’t need more facts. We need the media to stop insulting our intelligence.

The “No Kings” crowd spent years screaming that Trump is a tyrant who must be stopped “by any means necessary.” Well, Cole Allen took them at their word. And now they want to pretend they had nothing to do with it.

We see you. We’ve always seen you.