President Donald Trump said he still wants answers seven months after an assassination attempt on his life during a July 13 campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.
“I want to find the answers,” the president said during an executive order signing in the White House Thursday. “I’ve told them. … We can no longer blame [former President Joe] Biden for that one. He should have released that a long time ago.”
Gunman Thomas Crooks, 20, killed rally attendee Corey Comperatore and critically wounded two others, David Dutch and James Copenhaver, in his attempt to kill Trump, who was grazed in the ear by a bullet.
Former President Donald Trump, the Republican presidential candidate, is rushed offstage after getting shot during a rally July 13, 2024, in Butler, Pa. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
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The investigation summary concluded the rally was a “failure for the Secret Service” that warranted “several operational, policy, and organizational changes.”
Two months later, Trump survived a second assassination attempt while golfing at Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Florida, where Ryan Routh allegedly tried to assassinate Trump and remains in federal custody.
During a Q&A session with the media Thursday in the Oval Office, Trump told Fox News senior White House correspondent Peter Doocy he would be receiving a report about both incidents sometime next week.
“I want to release it,” Trump noted.
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“[Crooks] had three [cellphone] apps, two of which were foreign, supposedly, and who has the biggest white-shoe law firm in Pennsylvania, even though they don’t live in necessarily a white-shoe area,” Trump speculated. “What’s that all about?”
Former President Donald Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, speaks at a campaign rally at the Butler Farm Show, Oct. 5, 2024, in Butler, Pa. …
