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(Share)         (https://www.google.com/preferences/source?q=https://www.jpost.com/)      Follow us on Google     (A demonstrator holds a sign of Thomas Matthew Crooks outside of a security zone checkpoint by the Fiserv Forum as the RNC continues on July 17, 2024 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.) (A demonstrator holds a sign of Thomas Matthew Crooks outside of a security zone checkpoint by the Fiserv Forum as the RNC continues on July 17, 2024 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.)   A demonstrator holds a sign of Thomas Matthew Crooks outside of a security zone checkpoint by the Fiserv Forum as the RNC continues on July 17, 2024 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. (photo credit: JIM VONDRUSKA/GETTY IMAGES )    By REUTERS    SEPTEMBER 15, 2026 21:55  Updated:  SEPTEMBER 15, 2026 22:44   Attorney-General (https://www.jpost.com/american-politics/article-908467) Todd Blanche said that there is new information on the shooter in the Butler assassination attempt on (https://www.jpost.com/american-politics/article-908545) US President Donald Trump in a press briefing on Tuesday.  "It is new information about the shooter and about his background, about his history and that stuff that we didn't know before," Blanche told reporters during a White House press conference, without elaborating.   The attempted assassin, Thomas Crooks, fired eight shots at Trump with a rifle from a nearby rooftop during his speech at a 2024 campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, before being killed by a Secret Service sniper.  A few hours prior to the A-G's statements, Trump lambasted the (https://www.jpost.com/american-politics/article-908699) FBI under the Biden administration in an X/Twitter post for not doing "what they should have with respect to the Lunatic who shot me in Butler, PA. 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! Why wasn't it seen long ago?"  He continued, saying, "This was all a Democrat Plot, to get me out of the Election, that failed."   (Republican presidential candidate and former U.S. President Donald Trump is assisted by the Secret Service after gunfire rang out during a campaign rally at the Butler Farm Show in Butler, Pennsylvania, US, July 13, 2024.)  Republican presidential candidate and former U.S. President Donald Trump is assisted by the Secret Service after gunfire rang out during a campaign rally at the Butler Farm Show in Butler, Pennsylvania, US, July 13, 2024. (credit: REUTERS/BRENDAN MCDERMID)    Trump attacks ex-FBI director Christopher Wray  Trump added that ex-FBI director Christopher Wray, whom Trump appointed in his first term but later grew to hate, "should pay a price" for how the department responded to the assassination attempt "and certainly for the things he said."  Blanche, who was Trump's personal lawyer at the time of the assassination attempt, said during the briefing that he was with Trump as the investigation into the shooting was playing out, trying to ascertain what happened.  "His frustration and concern about what the former director was doing is something that is not new," Blanche said.   The (https://www.jpost.com/american-politics/article-908609) Justice Department and FBI did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment. Wray could not be reached for comment.  Jonah Davidov contributed to this report.       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