Trump Questions FBI Probe Into Assassination Attempts, Mentions ‘Suspicious’ Details
Charlie Kirk Staff
03/06/2025

Former President Donald Trump revealed new details about the ongoing FBI investigations into the two assassination attempts against him while speaking with reporters in the Oval Office on Thursday. Trump, who was seated behind the Resolute Desk, addressed questions about the status of the probes into the July 13 attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania, and the September 15 attempt in West Palm Beach, Florida.
Both cases remain under investigation, and many details about the suspects—Thomas Matthew Crooks, who was killed during the Butler shooting, and Ryan Routh, who is currently in federal custody—have not been publicly disclosed, Daily Mail reports.
“I want to find the answers,” Trump said. “In fact, today I said I want to, we can no longer blame Biden for that one.”
When asked why there is still little public information about Crooks, the 20-year-old gunman who struck him in the ear, Trump responded with a cryptic remark.
“Yeah, oh, well, and the second one with all of his cell phones?” Trump said, appearing to reference Routh, the man behind the second attempt on his life.
Trump then shared another previously undisclosed detail.
“You had one who had three 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. What’s that all about his law?”
The president said he is set to receive a briefing on the FBI’s findings next week. When asked if he believes something larger could be behind the delayed reports, Trump indicated he was open to that possibility.
“Other people think that,” he said. “It makes me think it a little bit too.”
He then circled back to the unusual details regarding the suspects’ use of apps and multiple cell phones, some of which reportedly contained strange markings.
“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.
“But on the second one, he had six cell phones. That’s a lot of cell phones, and a couple of them had some strange markings on them,” he continued. “I don’t have six cell phones.”
Trump also took a moment to commend the Secret Service for their efforts in protecting him before hinting at the possibility of making the reports public in the future.
“I would be willing to release it,” he told reporters.