White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt revealed President Donald Trump contacted the FBI and Secret Service for more information earlier this year about his first assassination attempt.

During a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, in July 2024, 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks fired off eight shots, with one bullet grazing the right ear of Trump, who was then a presidential candidate. One attendee, Corey Comperatore, 50, was killed, and two others were injured, according to authorities. A sniper also subsequently killed Crooks.

A Senate report released over the summer found “multiple, unacceptable failures” in the planning and response of Secret Service to the incident. Six agents were suspended for failures connected to the assassination attempt, several outlets repo

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