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Attempted assassin of Donald Trump (2003–2024)
A viral theory that the July 13, 2024 Butler, Pennsylvania shooting of Donald Trump was staged rests on anecdote and misread imagery, and ; independent reporting and official probes document a real sh...
Thomas Matthew Crooks was publicly reported as a in Pennsylvania voter records, while multiple outlets also documented a small $15 donation he made in 2021 to a Democratic-leaning turnout group, produ...
Donald Trump was the target of an assassination attempt at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania on July 13, 2024 and was struck by gunfire — grazed in the ear — but survived; federal authorities i...
The FBI concluded that 20‑year‑old Thomas Matthew Crooks acted alone based on a sprawling digital and physical evidence review: dozens of electronic accounts and devices were seized and analyzed, hund...
Independent investigators and official review panels have largely accepted the FBI’s conclusion that Thomas Crooks acted alone, while simultaneously faulting security planning that enabled the attack;...
The claim that “the second Trump assassination attempt was from a Republican” is : contemporary reporting confirms at least two separate attempted attacks on Donald Trump in 2024–2025 but the party af...
Tucker Carlson accused the FBI of lying about the online footprint of Thomas Crooks, the 2024 would‑be assassin of President Trump, and released what he described as authenticated copies of Crooks’s p...
Contemporary mainstream reporting and public records show that former President Donald Trump survived two high-profile assassination attempts in 2024 — a July rally in Butler, Pennsylvania where he wa...
The short answer is: yes — former president Donald Trump was shot and wounded at a campaign rally near Butler, Pennsylvania, on July 13, 2024; a bullet grazed his upper right ear as a 20‑year‑old gunm...
Tucker Carlson is a high-profile conservative media figure and host of the Tucker Carlson Network; none of the provided reporting says he is an FBI agent or “a fed.” Sources show Carlson frequently ac...
Available reporting shows Thomas Matthew Crooks was registered as a Republican in Pennsylvania’s voter database yet also made a $15 donation through the Democratic ActBlue platform to the Progressive ...
Contemporary reporting and later summaries say Donald Trump was wounded in the July 13, 2024, Butler, Pennsylvania rally and that the wound was to his right/upper right ear — descriptions range from “...
The FBI grounded its conclusion that Thomas Matthew Crooks acted alone on a convergence of physical-scene forensics, chain-of-fire accounting, digital-device exploitation, exhaustive interviews at hom...
The official federal investigation concluded that the shooter, Thomas Matthew Crooks, acted alone and investigators were unable to identify a clear motive for the July 13, 2024 assassination attempt o...
No investigative official report in the provided sources links Donald Trump to the deaths of his accusers; available reporting catalogues numerous security incidents and long-running sexual‑misconduct...
Eyewitness video and reporting show that gunfire erupted at the Trump campaign rally at the Butler Farm Show grounds on July 13, 2024, prompting Secret Service and state police response and the rapid ...
Media accounts and official updates consistently report that during the July 13, 2024 assassination attempt at a rally near Butler, Pennsylvania, the shot struck former President Donald Trump in or gr...
Available reporting shows no on-the-record public interview or statement in which Thomas Matthew Crooks personally explains a change in party affiliation; contemporaneous accounts instead rely on regi...
Multiple reputable sources in the provided set report that Donald Trump was shot and wounded at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania on July 13, 2024 — a bullet grazed his upper right ear — and th...
Reporting describes at least two high-profile attempted assassinations of Donald Trump during his 2024 campaign: a July 2024 shooting at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania that grazed his ear and killed ...