Trump expresses skepticism over current findings in Butler shooting investigation

FBI Director Kash Patel promised transparency as remaining questions linger about the federal investigation into the July 2024 assassination attempt on then-candidate President Donald Trump.

In an exclusive interview with Fox News’ Bret Baier, Patel touched on the growing public demand for answers as speculation swirls around the high-profile attack in Butler, Pa.

“I don’t know that there’s more to know, but you’re going to know everything we know,” Patel told Baier on “Special Report.”

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Patel, appointed amid calls for sweeping reform, pushed back on the growing conspiracy theories and insisted that the American people would learn the full truth.

“We take assassination attempts, especially of the president of the United States, extremely seriously,” he said. “And we don’t feel that the American people have been given the information they need on that. And we’re digging through the files, and we’re getting them a more robust picture of what happened and whether or not there were any connections.”

Pressed by Baier on theories circulating online, from an inside attempt to sabotage Trump’s campaign to foreign interference, Patel dismissed the speculation outright.

“That’s a great example of people looking for things where things don’t exist,” he said.

He acknowledged that the death of the would-be assassin, Thomas Matthew Crooks, allowed for more transparency than ongoing cases, such as the Merchant investigation in New York, and claimed that relevant disclosures had already been made public.