During Donald Trump’s campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania on July 13, 2024, prior to the presidential elections he won, the now president of the US was shot at by a 20-year-old man named Thomas Crooks.
The president wasn’t injured with any life-threatening injuries but was only hit in the ear. Sadly, Crooks claimed the live of a volunteer fire chief. Two other people were wounded in the incident in which Crooks fired eight rounds from an AR-15-style rifle from a nearby building’s roof.
“For 15 seconds, time stood still,” Trump told the crowd. “This vicious monster unleashed evil. The villain did not succeed in his goal.”
Trump was “fine and being checked out at a local medical facility,” a spokesperson said at the time.
In his inauguration speech, Trump said, “I was saved by God to make America great again.”
Following the shooting, FBI claimed they had no to little information about the shooter, whom they arrested shortly after. However, there have speculations that the bureau withheld information about Crooks and the entire incident.
Rep. Pat Fallon of Texas told The National News Desk that the congressional task force he led was not given access to certain key information, even though its role was to examine the assassination attempt.
“We definitely got stonewalled,” Fallon claimed. “When we finally got answers that we thought were fully forthright, now it seems like they weren’t.”
The investigation led the task force to conclude that the attack was, in fact, preventable.
During a 2024 briefing, former FBI Deputy Director Paul Abbate said investigators found over 700 online comments they believe Crooks wrote between 2019 and 2020, many reflecting antisemitic or anti-immigrant views. Fallon, however, claims that none of this material was ever provided to the task force.
“They didn’t share any of the information with us,” he said, as per CBS Austin. “It was either deliberate or incompetence.”
Further, Fallon said he intends to talk with Chairman James Comer about having Abbate appear again before the committee.
Meanwhile, Tucker Carlson suggested last week that officials are hiding what they knew about Crooks. Taking to X, he wrote he can “prove” the FBI misled the public by looking at Crooks’ online history. Carlson also went after FBI Director Kash Patel, along with former officials Christopher Wray and Dan Bongino, pointing to Crooks’ digital footprint and and questioning how Trump’s would-be assassin slipped past scrutiny.
Patel on the other hand insisted the FBI conducted a thorough review, pointing to the sheer volume of evidence collected: 1,000+ interviews, 2,000 tips, 13 devices, 500k digital files, hundreds of hours of video, 10 bank accounts, and data from 25 profiles.
Former FBI Special Agent in Charge Jody Weis believes the FBI failed at detecting the threat before the shooting took place.
“For them to say we just didn’t see much there, that we couldn’t identify a motive – I can’t understand why,” Weis said.
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