President Donald Trump told reporters Tuesday that his FBI had concluded its investigation into Thomas Crooks and found nothing “abnormal” more than a year after the assassination attempt on his life.
While Trump’s FBI said there was no “there there” while investigating the assassination attempt in March, the president told Fox News that he was having a hard time believing the official narrative surrounding the July 13 rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. Ten days out from the anniversary of the assassination attempt, Trump told the Daily Caller that he was “very satisfied” with what his administration turned up.
A year after the assassination attempt, details on tragedy and 20-year-old Thomas Crooks remain limited. (RELATED: One Year Later, Questions Remain About Butler Despite Trump Being ‘Very Satisfied’ With Investigation)
“What an interesting world that we know more about two people at a Coldplay concert just hours after that viral video than we know of Thomas Crooks one year after the assassination attempt. What is holding back the investigation on Thomas Crooks?” Real America’s Voice White House correspondent Brian Glenn asked.
“They have reported to me and told me things. They really say they haven’t found anything abnormal. I will say this, the Secret Service was very brave because they were right there and they jumped on me. They made mistakes. They should’ve had someone on that roof. They should have had communication with the local police. They made some mistakes,” Trump said while taking questions at a meeting with the Philippines president.
“We have a whole different group of people now. I don’t think any — look, anything can happen, but I think we have the best people in the world right now. They went into him with great detail. They gave me the whole thing. And what can I do? They say it was just a nut job that was looking to do this. I spoke with the FBI, the new FBI. I spoke to the FBI … if it was the old FBI, I wouldn’t have believed a thing they said. The old FBI under Comey was crooked as hell,” Trump said.
“I’m relying on my people to tell me what it is … The Secret Service, they tell me it’s fine. But it’s a little hard to believe,” Trump said in March about what his FBI had turned up so far.
Days after that interview, Deputy FBI Director Dan Bongino insisted that there was no conspiracy behind the assassination attempt on Trump’s life.
“If there was a big, explosive ‘there’ there — given my history as a Secret Service agent, and my personal friendship, as a director does with the president, give me one logical, sensible reason we would not have — if you can think of one, there isn’t,” Bongino said on Fox News.
“In some of these cases, the ‘there’ you’re looking for is not there. And I know people — I get it, I understand. It’s not there. If it was there, we would have told you,” he added.
Trump tells me he’s “very satisfied” with the investigation his FBI has done into the assassination attempt on his life.
Earlier this year, he expressed uneasiness with the progress of the investigation while the FBI insisted there was “no there there.” @DailyCaller pic.twitter.com/CpkOpWbCb1
— Reagan Reese (@reaganreese_) July 4, 2025
Investigators have not shared Crooks’ motive.
At the time of the assassination attempt, it was revealed that Crooks donated $15 to the Progressive Turnout Project through the ActBlue donation platform in January 2021, when former President Joe Biden was inaugurated, according to campaign finance records. He was also a registered Republican, voter registration records reveal.
Before the July 13 Trump rally, Crooks searched “how far was Oswald from Kennedy,” “where will Trump speak from at Butler Farm Show,” “Butler Farm Show podium,” and “Butler Farm Show photos.”
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