Would-Be Trump Assassin Used ‘Bob Dole’ Pseudonym
FBI records say Crooks used aliases and privacy tools before the attack, while an anonymous donor paid for his cremation, documents show.
- On Tuesday, President Donald Trump claimed without providing evidence that the 2024 assassination attempt against him was a "Democrat Plot" designed to force him from the presidential election.
- Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley received new documents regarding Thomas Matthew Crooks, the shooter who killed one attendee and wounded two others at the 2024 Butler, Pennsylvania rally.
- Records reveal an anonymous donor paid for Crooks' cremation shortly after the attack, while investigators found he used the alias "Bob Dole" to purchase firearm parts online before the shooting.
- Trump targeted former FBI Director Christopher Wray, calling him a "Dirty Cop" and stating he "should pay the price" for the bureau's handling of the investigation.
- Official inquiries have uncovered no evidence of a political conspiracy, focusing instead on security lapses and Crooks' unknown motive during the 2024 campaign.
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Reuters' source reports the contents of the FBI documents.
US Attorney General Todd Blanchette revealed on Tuesday that the FBI has received new information about the shooter who carried out the deadly 2024 attack on Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania.
U.S. President Donald Trump claimed that the FBI under the Biden administration concealed information regarding an attempted assassination against him during his time as the 2024 Republican presidential candidate. President Trump conveyed this information on the social media platform TruthSocial, stating, "When I took office on January 20 (last year), most of the information was missing, manipulated, damaged, or disappeared."
In a new, wild rant, Trump accuses Democrats of being behind the assassination attempt on him in Butler. "It was all a Democratic plot to get me out of the election," he writes on Truth Social.
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