GOP lawmakers blindsided by new revelations about Trump Butler shooter: 'Awfully strange'

Thomas Matthew Crooks' father conducted searches for methods to restrict his son's access to firearms months before the July 2024 shooting at a Trump rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, according to reporting on the matter. Crooks, 20, fired shots at the event on July 13, 2024, wounding Trump and killing one attendee before being shot by Secret Service personnel. The disclosure about the father's earlier searches emerged as Republican lawmakers reviewed details of the incident.

Next story