Overview
- On July 13, 2024, Thomas Matthew Crooks fired at a Trump rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, grazing President Trump, killing one attendee, and was killed by a Secret Service sniper.
- This week the FBI gave heavily redacted records to Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley that include interview summaries, invoices and evidence logs revealing Crooks used the delivery name 'Bob Dole' for weapon parts and that an anonymous donor paid for his cremation.
- The Justice Department and FBI reiterate their November 2025 finding that investigators uncovered no co‑conspirators, no foreign nexus and no manifesto linking Crooks to a wider plot.
- President Trump has publicly accused the Biden‑era FBI and former Director Christopher Wray of mishandling the probe and demanded consequences, prompting intensified partisan oversight and congressional questioning.
- The new files deepen scrutiny of security and investigative choices because they show gaps in public records, include fuller interviews with Crooks’ father portraying him as solitary and gun‑focused, and could trigger further probes of the Secret Service and document redaction practices.