You Vote: With the newly released documents, what about Trump assassination attempt in Butler, Pa.?
The documents were part of a lawsuit Judicial Watch filed against the bureau last July after it failed to comply with a FOIA request on the shooting in 2024.
Judicial Watch revealed Thursday that new FBI documents it obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request revealed that law enforcement had issued a suspicious individual warning in Butler, Pennsylvania, before the 2024 assassination attempt on President Donald Trump.
The documents were part of a lawsuit Judicial Watch filed against the bureau last July after it failed to comply with a FOIA request on the shooting in 2024.
The records include a “FD-302” investigative report from July 16, 2024, which states that on the day of the shooting, law enforcement received radio reports about an "unknown male acting suspiciously."
"One report included the unknown male looking at a law enforcement sniper position," the report reads. "Several operators were communicating information about the unknown male back and forth over the radio--including to/from Command, to the Secret Service, to [Pennsylvania State Police], to 'everybody.'"
Other new documents include interviews with other witnesses.
“These documents raise troubling new questions about Secret Service failures to protect President Trump. And it shouldn’t have taken years and a federal lawsuit to get this basic FBI material about the near assassination of President Trump,” Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said in a statement.