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FBI Still Unsure How Would-Be Assassin Got Rifle onto Roof

More than two weeks after the attempted assassination of President Donald Trump on July 30, 2024, FBI Deputy Director Paul Abbate said the FBI still doesn’t know how the would-be assassin got a rifle onto the roof and fired it from there. Sen. LaFonza Butler (D-Calif.) asked Abbate whether authorities knew how the 20-year-old would-be […]

FBI confirms Trump hit by would-be assassin Thomas Matthew Crooks’ bullet

The FBI confirmed Friday that Donald Trump was hit by a bullet in the ear during an assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania, on July 13. Two days earlier, a senior FBI official had said there were “questions” about the bullet that struck the former president. “The bullet that struck former President Trump in the ear […]

Bodycam Footage Shows Trump Would-Be Assassin Was ID’d Before Shot

New body camera footage released Tuesday shows that the would-be assassin of former President Donald Trump was identified by the Secret Service long before the first shot was rang out. A video released by Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) shows local police officers standing next to the bloody body of 20-year-old shooter Thomas Matthew Crooks and […]

Trump Shooter Searched ‘How Far Away’ JFK Assassin Was, Christopher Wray Reveals

A 20-year-old man who plotted to assassinate former President Donald Trump had searched the internet for details about the distance by which John F. Kennedy was assassinated, FBI Director Christopher Wray said Wednesday. Suspect Thomas Michael Crooks climbed to the roof of a building near the former president’s rally and came within range of Trump’s […]

Phone associated with would-be assassin pinged near FBI DC offices in 2023, report says

On July 22, the Heritage Oversight Project reported that a cellphone registered to the home and work addresses of would-be assassin Thomas Matthew Crooks had visited the Gallery Place building in Washington, D.C., which houses a shopping mall and FBI offices. The Oversight Project, part of the Heritage Foundation, began investigating the geolocation data hours […]