President Donald Trump has said that a "Democrat Plot" is to blame for the "botched" federal investigation into the 2024 assassination attempt at a campaign rally that saw him shot in the ear, two others critically wounded, and one dead. "Everybody knows the Crooked Joe Biden FBI didn’t do what they should have with respect to the Lunatic who shot me in Butler, PA," Trump wrote on Truth Social on Tuesday. "By the time I got into Office, on January 20th, most of the information was missing, altered, corrupted, or gone.
Why wasn’t it seen long ago? This was all a Democrat Plot, to get me out of the Election, that failed. Dirty Cop Christopher Wray should pay a price for the way he handled this assassination attempt, and certainly for the things he said." Trump's allegation comes as a new trove of documents related to Thomas Matthew Crooks' assassination attempt against him was released this week.
Many questions remain unanswered since the rally on July 13, 2024, in Butler, Pennsylvania, where Crooks shot at Trump with an assault rifle from a rooftop while the then-presidential candidate delivered remarks. Crooks killed one attendee and severely wounded two others while also hitting Trump's ear with a bullet. Crooks was killed by a Secret Service agent, and his motive remains unknown, even as the FBI ended its investigation in 2025.
Wray, who was mentioned in Trump's recent post, was the FBI director at the time. Newsweek reached out to the White House and FBI via email for comment on Tuesday. The documents were released to Republican Senator Chuck Grassley, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, who is investigating the assassination attempt in an effort to learn how Crooks was able to bypass security and fire a gun numerous times despite numerous security warnings.
They provide a further glimpse into Crooks' life, his actions leading up to the shooting, and events that occurred after the assassination attempt. One such revelation was that Crooks made online purchases under the alias "Bob Dole" in an attempt to conceal his true identity before the shooting, the New York Post reported. The packages, which came from Amazon and other online retailers, included parts and tools for his assault rifle and were delivered to Crooks' parents' house.
The late Bob Dole was a Republican U.S. senator who ran an unsuccessful presidential campaign in 1996 against Bill Clinton. The reason for Crooks' use of the name remains unknown. The documents also revealed that an anonymous donor covered Crooks' cremation expenses after the assassination attempt.
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