New information uncovered on Trump assassination attempt in Butler, says A-G Blanche

The shooter, Thomas Crooks, fired eight shots at Trump with a rifle from a nearby rooftop during his speech at a 2024 campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, before being killed by Secret Service.

Attorney-General Todd Blanche said that there is new information on the shooter in the Butler assassination attempt on US President Donald Trump in a press briefing on Tuesday.

"It is new information about the shooter and about his background, about his history and that stuff that we didn't know before," Blanche told reporters during a White House press conference, without elaborating.

Earlier in the day, Trump lambasted the FBI under the Biden administration in an X/Twitter post for not doing "what they should have with respect to the Lunatic who shot me in Butler, PA. By the time I got into Office, on January 20th, most of the information was missing, altered, corrupted, or gone. New info was just found! Why wasn't it seen long ago?"

He continued, saying, "This was all a Democrat Plot, to get me out of the Election, that failed."

The attempted assassin, Thomas Crooks, fired eight shots at Trump with a rifle from a nearby rooftop during his speech at a 2024 campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, before being killed by a Secret Service sniper.

US Secret Service, local police failures during assassination attempt

The US Secret Service did not receive 102 local radio transmissions about the gunman who attempted to assassinate US President Donald Trump at a 2024 campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, according to a government watchdog report released on Thursday.

The agency was unaware of the transmissions on July 13, 2024, because it had failed to establish a joint communications room with local law enforcement, which was receiving reports about the search for a suspicious person later identified as Thomas Crooks, according to the report by the US Department of Homeland Security's inspector general.