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Trump Baselessly Claims Assassination Attempt Was ‘Democrat Plot’ Against Him
Yahoo News. ^ | Tue, 15 September 2026 | Sanjana Karanth

Posted on 09/18/2026 9:48:36 AM PDT by Pete Dovgan

President Donald Trump baselessly claimed on Tuesday that the July 2024 assassination attempt against him was a plot by Democrats, including then-President Joe Biden and FBI Director Chris Wray, to push him out of the election.

The president posted on Truth Social that Biden's FBI "didn't do what they should have with respect to the Lunatic who shot me in Butler, PA," referring to gunman Thomas Crooks, who was 20 years old when he shot at Trump during a campaign rally, grazing his ear, killing a bystander and injuring two others before the Secret Service fatally shot him.

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"By the time I got into Office, on January 20th, most of the information was missing, altered, corrupted, or gone. New info was just found!" he continued. "This was all a Democrat Plot, to get me out of the Election, that failed.

Trump also called Wray, whom he hired to lead the FBI during his first term, a "Dirty Cop" who "should pay a price for the way he handled the assassination attempt, and certainly for the things he said."

Neither Biden nor Wray appear to have responded.

The FBI found that Crooks appeared to have acted alone, with no immediate ideological motive, and concluded its probe in November 2025 under Trump's second term.

(Excerpt) Read more at sg.news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Conspiracy; History
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To: Pete Dovgan

Who were the parties that met with Crooks at the range? Or the ones who met with him Just outside the FBI facility?


21 posted on 09/18/2026 10:33:08 AM PDT by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification;)
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To: Vision
Crooks was a registered Republican.

It’s not uncommon for leftists to register as Republicans to affect the primaries. How did he vote?
22 posted on 09/18/2026 10:35:37 AM PDT by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification;)
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To: Pete Dovgan

“I can find no answers on the internet.”

As you know, big chunks of the several tranches of info have been redacted and blanked out. I am certain President Trump has been briefed on all the findings and he supports the blackout of information.

There are SO MANY odd things, inconsistent stories, loose threads, etc that it all adds up to something nefarious that they do not want us to know about. It’s in the “You can’t handle the truth” realm.


23 posted on 09/18/2026 10:36:17 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Jan_Sobieski

“ Who were the parties that met with Crooks at the range? Or the ones who met with him Just outside the FBI facility?”
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Yes… where are the images and WHY HAVEN’T THOSE PICTURES BEEN RELEASED TO THE PUBLIC?


24 posted on 09/18/2026 10:36:53 AM PDT by House Atreides (I’m now ULTRA-MAGA-PRO-MAX)
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To: Pete Dovgan

“Baselees” ... “without evidence “...
Authors used to keep their judgements out of their words


25 posted on 09/18/2026 10:40:44 AM PDT by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing obamacare is worse than obamacare itself.)
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To: BookmanTheJanitor

He’s ugly


26 posted on 09/18/2026 10:41:49 AM PDT by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing obamacare is worse than obamacare itself.)
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To: Billthedrill
“Never believe anything until it's been officially denied’’.- Otto Von Bismark.
27 posted on 09/18/2026 10:43:39 AM PDT by jmacusa ( Liberals. Too stupid to be idiots.)
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To: Billthedrill
“Never believe anything until it's been officially denied’’.- Otto Von Bismark.
28 posted on 09/18/2026 10:43:40 AM PDT by jmacusa ( Liberals. Too stupid to be idiots.)
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To: Steely Tom

Who sent the incompetent Secret Service agents that let the assassin set up in plain sight?
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The way these staged assassinations work is the big guys at the top of the assassination plan purposely create a staged event where the visibly public crime is performed by a patsy and the government that set the entire killing up can hide in the background and try to retain plausible deniability. In Butler, the patsy proved so incompetent the government was caught flatfooted and now left to explain their myriad and very visible levels of incompetence. For approximately 90 minutes Crooks roamed the grounds and his suspicious behavior with a rangefinder was gabbed about by LE all over their comms, yet no one confronted the suspect. Then when people starte shouting ‘there’s a guy on the roof!’, Trump was allowed to remain on the stage for 90 seconds. When Crooks fired his first round the counter-sniper team who had Crooks in their rifle scopes, sat on their triggers and let Crooks get off an entire volley of shots - absolutely unexplained behavior and inexcusable unless they were waiting/hoping for the patsy to get off a fatal round. When the whole fiasco went ‘south’, they took him out - silenced him - and then quickly got the water hoses out to wash away the DNA so we really do not know if it was Crooks. Then to add mystery to who the shooter actually was, an ‘anonymous’ donor paid for the very hasty cremation of the body.


29 posted on 09/18/2026 10:50:19 AM PDT by iontheball (, )
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To: Pete Dovgan

Why are none of the writers even named Cindy and Deborah? Or Peter? It’s always some Indian or other transplant.


30 posted on 09/18/2026 10:51:12 AM PDT by Seruzawa ("The political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence." -Marx the Smarter (Groucho.))
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To: Pete Dovgan

Democrat Plot

JFK raps box?


31 posted on 09/18/2026 10:52:39 AM PDT by Vaduz (NEVER TRUST A DEMOCRAT)
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To: Vision

I’m betting he was into a little Operation Chaos and voted for Nikki Haley in the PA primaries.


32 posted on 09/18/2026 10:53:19 AM PDT by EvilCapitalist (Pets are no substitute for children)
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To: Pete Dovgan

Trump did make a serious claim without evidence.


33 posted on 09/18/2026 10:53:37 AM PDT by Vision (“Our Democracy” means "Our Slush Fund." The Left is hate.)
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To: Pete Dovgan

Doesn’t sound baseless to me.


34 posted on 09/18/2026 10:55:32 AM PDT by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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To: EvilCapitalist; Jan_Sobieski

My suggestion is to get over this. Trump’s own FBI has closed the case. The midterms are weeks away and Trump isn’t looking great in public.


35 posted on 09/18/2026 10:55:53 AM PDT by Vision (“Our Democracy” means "Our Slush Fund." The Left is hate.)
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To: Steely Tom

Pete must have a direct line to the top secret sources to m ake such a dumb statement or is just plain stupid.


36 posted on 09/18/2026 10:56:36 AM PDT by chopperk (,)
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To: BookmanTheJanitor

She looks like a yahoo AWFUL.


37 posted on 09/18/2026 10:58:32 AM PDT by willk (Local news media. Just as big an enemy to this country as national media)
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To: chopperk

Democrat aligned groups........

Kill Charlie Kirk
Tried to Kill Trump
Caused 9/11.

We need to speak truth to lies


38 posted on 09/18/2026 10:58:50 AM PDT by SteelPSUGOP (UGHT)
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To: Pete Dovgan
And lo, the veil is lifted, and the mystery is unveiled.

By the decree of the public record, the keepers of the seal, the FBI, did possess the sight of the cameras. They beheld Crooks, with two companions, in the house of arms, but a mere seven days passed from the day of the attempted deed. Yea, one of these two souls was seen again, at the place of marksmanship, walking in the company of Crooks. This truth is now written in the ledger, and it was not given of its own accord, but only after the cry of the FOIA was heard.

Consider, O reader, the timing of these things. The Bureau held this knowledge, and the moving pictures, before Wray stood before the assembly of Congress. The house had called for such evidence to be laid before them, yet Wray kept silence. There is no public witness that the assembly was made to know of this hidden treasure.

Surely, there are paths that the spirit may take. It is possible that these two were searched and known, and then cast aside as innocent. Or, it may be that they were not searched at all, which would be a great breaking of the covenant. Or, perhaps, the findings were locked away in a dark place, hidden from the eyes of the assembly and the multitude.

Watch, therefore, and see who these two were, and in what season they were known. See if they serve the state, or have served it in the days gone by, and what the search did reveal. For I have searched the wide waters of the internet, and no answer was found.

39 posted on 09/18/2026 11:01:29 AM PDT by Prospero (Lex est rex)
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To: Vision

“Trump did make a serious claim without evidence.”

Yes, and not exactly. Yes, it’s a very very serious claim. However, if Wrey didn’t reveal to Congress about potential uncleared co-conspirators then he isn’t without evidence. That absolutely can’t happen in an investigation of this magnitude. Wrey needed to notify Congress, as they had requested, that these individuals were 1) Completely Cleared or 2) there was an ongoing conspiracy investigation. By the public record, THAT DIDN’T HAPPEN.

If the people on the video weren’t investigated, or the FBI covered up who they were, both of those are strong indicators of Malice. You don’t put incompetent people on an investigation of this magnitude, so I am ruling out incompetence as an excuse from the FBI.

The best thing I can say is that maybe Wrey accidently mislead congress and failed to provide pertinent and requested information. That’s the best thing I can say, anything else becomes OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE, PERJURY, and CRIMINAL for Wrey. If they were investigated, and the information withheld from Congress that they were government associated———especially if they were ACROYNM employees (NSA, CIA, FBI, ect) or former employees, we have a real problem.

So yes, serious claim. Without Evidence......he may not have released the full evidence but the fact that he has Wrey not informing Congress when ordered to, and that he has full access to information, strongly suggests he has that evidence.


40 posted on 09/18/2026 11:03:48 AM PDT by Pete Dovgan
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