Trump Marks Two Years Since Butler Assassination Attempt, Says 'God Was With Me'
Investigators say multiple reviews found avoidable security lapses as later threats and alleged plots kept presidential protection under scrutiny.
- On Monday, President Donald Trump launched into a bizarre rant about Thomas Crooks, describing the would-be assassin as a "very strange cookie" while praising him as a "great student" with "almost perfect" academic records.
- Trump criticized the Secret Service for failing to secure the Butler, Pennsylvania, rally venue two years prior, after a Department of Homeland Security Office of Inspector General report revealed agents missed 102 radio transmissions about the suspect.
- While condemning the planning failures, Trump praised the Secret Service agents who shielded him with their bodies, calling them "very brave," and credited the counter-sniper who eliminated the shooter within four seconds from 300 yards.
- Renewed scrutiny followed recently obtained FBI records revealing Crooks exchanged two emails with a Butler County Sheriff deputy before the attempt, igniting backlash within MAGA circles and intensifying criticism from commentator Tucker Carlson.
- The assassination attempt remains part of a broader pattern of threats; in September 2024, Secret Service agents averted another attack by would-be assassin Ryan Routh at Trump's Florida golf club, resulting in his life sentence plus 84 months.
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Two Years After Butler, Democrats’ Hateful Rhetoric Persists
Two years ago today, on July 13, 2024, in Butler, Pennsylvania, America witnessed a horrific assassination attempt on then-candidate Donald J. Trump. A deranged gunman, radicalized amid years of inflammatory Democratic rhetoric, opened fire at a campaign rally, grazing the president’s ear, killing firefighter Corey Comperatore, and injuring others. Trump’s defiant response—“Fight! Fight! Fight!”—with blood on his face and fist raised became an e…
‘God Was With Me’: Trump Marks Butler Anniversary As Report Details 102 Missed Transmissions
President Donald Trump marked the second anniversary of the attempt on his life in Butler, Pennsylvania, on Monday by crediting God for his survival, while a new federal watchdog report renewed scrutiny of the failures that allowed a gunman to open fire from a nearby roof. Trump reflected on the July 13, 2024, attack during a Monday interview on Fox & Friends. “I got lucky. God was watching,” Trump said. “So God was with me.” Trump said a small …
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