President Donald Trump stated he nonetheless needs solutions seven months after an assassination try on his life throughout a July 13 marketing campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.
“I want to find the answers,” the president stated throughout an government order signing within the White Home 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 try and kill Trump, who was grazed within the ear by a bullet.
Former President Donald Trump, the Republican presidential candidate, is rushed offstage after getting shot throughout a rally July 13, 2024, in Butler, Pa. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Photographs)
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The investigation abstract 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 try whereas {golfing} at Trump Worldwide Golf Membership in West Palm Seashore, Florida, the place Ryan Routh allegedly tried to assassinate Trump and stays in federal custody.
Throughout a Q&A session with the media Thursday within the Oval Workplace, Trump advised Fox Information senior White Home correspondent Peter Doocy he could be receiving a report about each incidents someday subsequent week.
“I want to release it,” Trump famous.
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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 marketing campaign rally on the Butler Farm Present, Oct. 5, 2024, in Butler, Pa. (AP Photograph/Evan Vucci)
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He added that Routh, 58, allegedly had quite a few cellphones.
“The other one had seven or six cellphones, and I don’t have six cellphones,” Trump stated. “Why would somebody have six cellphones. So, we’re going to be releasing a report on that soon. … It’s a lot of cellphones, and a couple of them had some strange markings on them.”
Appearing Director Ronald Rowe Jr., proper, of the U.S. Secret Service addresses the media at a information convention with updates on the investigation into the assassination try on former President Donald Trump in West Palm Seashore, Fla., Sept. 16, 2024. (Mega for Fox Information Digital)
Pointing to a lack of knowledge in regards to the incidents, the president stated “it makes me think a little bit.”
“I say when you have three apps and two of them are foreign, and you had an FBI that wouldn’t report on it — they didn’t want to say why — I would say that could be suspicious,” Trump stated.
He additionally took the time to focus on the Secret Service’s efforts to intercept Routh, who was noticed allegedly aiming a rifle at considered one of Trump’s safety particulars in bushes.
Trump assassination try suspect Ryan Routh on police bodycam footage being taken into custody Sept. 15, 2024, in Florida. (Martin County Sheriff’s Workplace )
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“I want to find out, and I would be willing to release it,” Trump stated. “I mean, maybe there’s a reason that we shouldn’t. So, I don’t want to get too far ahead of my skis. But, yeah, I would be very willing to release that. … I want to see that one myself.”
Fox Information Digital’s Audrey Conklin contributed to this report.
