President Trump is demanding answers about the assassination attempts against him last year, and he’s not going to let the bureaucratic stonewalling continue. In a bold move, he announced that he expects a full report from the Secret Service next week—and, unless there are serious security risks, he’s ready to make it public.
This is the kind of leadership America deserves: transparency, accountability, and an unwavering commitment to the truth. “I want to find the answers. I want to find out. I want to see it myself,” Trump declared from the Oval Office on March 6. The American people have every right to know how and why these attacks happened, and who—if anyone—was really behind them.
The first attack, which took place on July 13, 2024, at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, sent shockwaves across the nation. A would-be assassin fired multiple shots from a rooftop, striking Trump in the ear and killing one of his supporters, firefighter Corey Comperatore. The gunman, 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks, was taken down by a Secret Service sniper, but not before causing devastation. The second attack, just two months later, was thwarted when a Secret Service agent spotted an armed suspect lurking in the shrubbery near Trump’s golf course in West Palm Beach. That suspect, Ryan Wesley Routh, was caught on the highway with six cell phones, an obliterated rifle serial number, and a letter declaring his intent to kill Trump.
Trump isn’t buying the official narrative. The fact that Crooks, a young, relatively unknown man, managed to stage such a precise attack raises serious questions. And why was the FBI so slow to report on these incidents? Why was the Biden administration dragging its feet instead of making the details public? “Biden should have released that a long time ago,” Trump said. “The FBI wouldn’t report on it. They wouldn’t say why. I would say that could be suspicious.”
And let’s talk about those six cell phones found on Routh. What was he doing with them? Who was he communicating with? What “strange markings” were on them, as Trump pointed out? These aren’t the kinds of questions that can just be brushed aside.
A congressional task force already determined that the Secret Service and law enforcement agencies made major failures in protecting Trump, listing 37 recommendations to fix the glaring security breakdowns. But that’s not enough. The American people deserve full transparency. If there were co-conspirators, they must be exposed. If there were cover-ups, they must be dismantled.
Unlike his predecessor, Trump is cutting through the fog of government secrecy and demanding the truth. He’s not afraid to call out the deep state and the failures of the Biden administration, and he’s not going to let this go. We need to know exactly what happened—and more importantly, we need to make sure it never happens again.
