President Donald Trump told reporters he is expecting a report “next week” on the men who attempted to assassinate him.
Speaking with reporters in the Oval Office on Thursday, the president was asked why there were still no details made public about the would-be assassin who opened fire during his rally speech in Butler, Pennsylvania last July 13.
Trump said he didn’t want “to get too far ahead of my skis” but would like to release the report after receiving it. He also noted a detail about the suspect in the September 15 attempt on his life in West Palm Beach, Florida.
REPORTER: “It’s been 7 months. Why do you think we don’t know more about the guy who shot you in the ear?”@POTUS: “And the second one with all of the cell phones… I want to find the answers… They are giving me a report next week sometime. I want to release the report.” pic.twitter.com/AqykjBZCFe
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) March 6, 2025
“It’s been seven months. Why do you think we don’t know more about the guy who shot you in the ear?” Fox News reporter Peter Doocy asked Trump.
“Yeah, oh, well, and the second one with all of his cell phones,” Trump replied.
“So, I want to find the answers. I’ve told them, in fact, today, I said I want to find— we can no longer blame [former President Joe] Biden for that one. He should have released that a long time ago,” the president continued.
“So, they are giving me a report next week sometime, and I do believe I’ll be releasing— I want to release the report. A lot of people have asked that question,” Trump revealed.
“You had one who had three apps, two of which were foreign, supposedly, and who has the biggest white shoe law firm in Pennsylvania, even though they don’t live in necessarily, a white shoe area. What’s that all about?…The other one had seven or six cell phones, and I don’t have six cell phones. And why would somebody have six cell phones?” he wondered.
“So we’re going to be releasing a report on that soon, Peter,” Trump reiterated.
“Based on what you’re saying right there, the lack of information and the data points that you just gave, does that make you think that there’s some part of a, there’s some bigger?” Doocy asked.
“It could be. Well, it makes other people think that. It makes me think it a little bit too,” the president replied.
“I say, when you have three apps and two of them are foreign, and you had an FBI that wouldn’t report on it. They didn’t want to say why. I would say that could be suspicious,” he continued.
“And then on the second assassin you had, you know, and by the way, I have to say Secret Service, did a great job on that by spotting them. But on the second one, he had six cell phones. That’s a lot of cell phones, and a couple of them had some strange markings on them. So yeah, I want to find out, and I would be willing to release it,” Trump noted.
“I mean, maybe there’s a reason that we shouldn’t, so I don’t want to get too far ahead of my skis. But yeah, I would be very willing to release that. I’d like to see it. I want to see it myself. Not only you, I want to see that one myself,” he concluded.
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Originally from New York, Powers graduated from New York University and eventually made her way to sunny South Florida. Powers also contributes to BizPac Review.
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