The president has said that information about the 2024 shooting was \u201cmissing, altered, corrupted, or gone\u201d when he returned to office<\/p>\n
US President Donald Trump has claimed that an FBI probe into his attempted assassination in July 2024 was deliberately mishandled as part of a \u201cDemocrat plot\u201d to prevent him from winning a second term. He also referred to \u201cnew info\u201d that supposedly appeared in the case, but provided no details.
\nIn 2024, Trump, then the Republican presidential candidate, narrowly escaped death at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, when a 20-year-old man fired shots from a rooftop, grazing Trump\u2019s ear and killing one attendee and injuring two others.
\nTrump claimed at the time that President Joe Biden and his Democratic rival, Kamala Harris, were partly to blame as they allegedly made it more difficult for the Secret Service to protect him, while peddling rhetoric that could have encouraged the shooter.
\nThe would-be assassin, Thomas M. Crooks, was killed by the US Secret Service. An internal review released later that year concluded that the Secret Service made multiple mistakes ahead of the shooting.<\/p>\n
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US Secret Service allowed \u2018multiple failures\u2019 before Trump shooting \u2013 report<\/p>\n
\u201cEverybody knows the Crooked Joe Biden FBI didn\u2019t do what they should have with respect to the Lunatic who shot me in Butler,\u201d Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social on Tuesday.
\nHe also claimed that \u201cmost of the information [on the case] was missing, altered, corrupted, or gone\u201d by the time he took office in January 2025. \u201cThis was all a Democrat Plot, to get me out of the Election, that failed,\u201d the president stated, adding that some new information on the case had emerged recently, but provided no details.
\nTrump also blamed former FBI Director Christopher Wray for mishandling the probe and maintained he \u201cshould pay a price for the way he handled this assassination attempt, and certainly for the things he said.\u201d
\nWray, who was nominated by Trump himself during his first term in office, stated that his agency did not find any accomplices of the shooter during testimony to the House Judiciary Committee. He also said it was unclear if Trump had been hit directly by a bullet or by shrapnel, provoking sharp criticism from Trump at the time. Wray resigned before Trump\u2019s inauguration in January 2025.<\/p>\n
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Trump suggests Biden and Harris partly to blame for shooting<\/p>\n
The current FBI director, Kash Patel, told the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday that his agency looked into Crooks\u2019 possible connection to any accomplices but found none. \u201cWe found no evidence that that individual was literally even speaking to any other human being other than his parents, who he resided with,\u201d he said.
\nAttorney General Todd Blanche mentioned during the same hearing that new information related to the case had surfaced recently. \u201cIt is new information about the shooter and about his background, about his history and that\u2019s stuff that we didn\u2019t know before,\u201d he said while refusing to elaborate.
\nTrump has been targeted in several assassination attempts. Two months after the July 2024 incident, a pro-Ukraine activist was arrested after being spotted with a rifle near Trump\u2019s golf course in Florida. He was later found guilty of trying to assassinate Trump.
\nIn April 2026, the president and First Lady Melania Trump were rushed from the Washington Hilton after gunfire broke out at the White House Correspondents\u2019 Association Dinner. The suspect, Cole Tomas Allen, was later charged with attempting to assassinate the president as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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