The initially released surveillance video of the recent attempt to assassinate President Donald Trump was blurry and incomplete. Posted a short time after the incident, it showed Cole Allen, the accused would-be assassin, charging a security site at the April 25 White House Correspondents' Dinner in Washington. The fuzzy images showed Allen, shotgun in hand, dashing through the metal detectors that had screened people going into the dinner but were then being disassembled. The video did nothing to explain what happened before or after.

Then, after Allen was charged with attempting to assassinate the president, Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, released a clearer version of the crashing-the-metal-detector video. The sharper video clearly showed Allen's run, plus the muzzle flashes of one Secret Service agent firing multiple times at Allen at close range (and missing).

The newly released video showed one more detail that could be critical to the case. Longer than the original version, it showed Allen, wearing the long coat under which he concealed a 12-gauge pump action shotgun and a........

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