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Eric Trump is ‘wholly p*ssed off’ about his dad’s assassination attempt investigation: ‘nothing about it looks right’

November 6, 2025 | | Print Article

President Donald Trump’s son Eric expressed frustration this week over a lack of answers regarding the assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania, last year against his father.

“Are you satisfied with the answers that we’ve got from the Butler assassination attempt?” podcast host Miranda Devine asked him in an interview published Wednesday.

“No,” he quickly replied. “We know nothing. In fact, not only am I unsatisfied, I’m wholly pissed off about it, and I remain … pissed off about it.”

As a reminder, on July 13 of last year, a 20-year-old weirdo named Thomas Matthew Crooks opened fire on Trump from a rooftop as the then-GOP presidential nominee was speaking at a Butler rally.

A bullet wound up grazing Trump in the ear. Crooks, meanwhile, was found and terminated by local and federal law enforcement agents.

(Video Credit: Pod Force One)

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A year later, many questions about Crooks remain unanswered, much to Eric’s dismay.

“We see a picture of a kid who looks like he’s 14 years old, and we’ve seen no other pictures of him,” the younger Trump told Devine. “We don’t know who he is. We know he has multiple cellphones. Try to figure out why a 20-year-old has multiple cellphones.”

“The kid was cremated in like 5 days or 6 days. Like, give me a break. Like, most family pets take longer to be cremated. I’m very far away from being a conspiracy theorist, but nothing about it looks right,” he continued.

Eric added how strange it is that investigators “know everything” about every Jan. 6 rioter but “don’t know a damn thing” about Crooks.

“But why do you think that is?” Devine asked him before offering her own theory involving the FBI.

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“Back in, I think it was March or May, whenever, I interviewed your father on Air Force One, and he said he gave the order then — he said, ‘I want to know from the Secret Service exactly everything about it,’” she said.

“And then the answer is, ‘Well, the Secret Service doesn’t know because the FBI has taken over.’ But it’s your father’s FBI. So what … is Kash Patel hiding something, or does he — is he not able to get to it?” she added.

Eric responded by defending FBI Director Kash Patel and Deputy Director Dan Bongino, both of whom he described as longtime friends, though he admitted that he hasn’t yet asked them about the investigation.

Eric also confessed that he personally is much more upset about the investigation’s handling than his father.

“Listen, when you’re the president of the United States, first of all, I think his job is to bring calm, and I think he’s absolutely done that,” Eric noted. “He’s brought calm about the situation in a time where it warranted somebody not being calm.”

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“Second of all, there’s probably national security things there, right? That’s what I suspect, and so, you know, for him to come out and say I’m satisfied is one thing. He’s the person who took a bullet to the ear. I’m a guy who’s not satisfied. I think it’s a joke that we don’t know,” he added.

When asked by Devine about what might be holding up the investigation, Eric admitted that he has “no idea.”

During the interview, the president’s son also spoke about social media censorship:

As well as the infamous raid on Mar-a-Lago:

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Meanwhile, earlier in the week, the president’s daughter-in-law, Lara Trump, told commentator Benny Johnson that nobody in the Trump family has been briefed about Crooks and his potential motivation.

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