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(Background) WASHINGTON, DC - OCTOBER 06: White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt (R) speaks during a press briefing in the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House on October 06, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images) / (L-Top) Thomas Matthew Crooks. (Photo via: DOJ) / (L-Bottom) TOPSHOT - Republican candidate Donald Trump is seen with blood on his face surrounded by secret service agents as he is taken off the stage at a campaign event at Butler Farm Show Inc. in Butler, Pennsylvania, July 13, 2024. Donald Trump was hit in the ear in an apparent assassination attempt by a gunman at a campaign rally on Saturday, in a chaotic and shocking incident that will fuel fears of instability ahead of the 2024 US presidential election. The 78-year-old former president was rushed off stage with blood smeared across his face after the shooting in Butler, Pennsylvania, while the gunman and a bystander were killed and two spectators critically injured. (Photo by Rebecca DROKE / AFP) (Photo by REBECCA DROKE/AFP via Getty Images)

Leavitt says Americans deserve answers on Thomas Crooks’ motive to assassinate Trump: ‘And I believe the president does too’

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt proclaimed that the American people deserve answers about the motive of would-be Trump assassin Thomas Matthew Crooks following conservative commentator Tucker Carlson’s investigation, which suggested that the FBI is withholding information.

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(Background) WASHINGTON, DC - NOVEMBER 6: House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) listens to a a question from a reporter during a news conference at the U.S. Capitol on November 6, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Eric Lee/Getty Images) / (R) New York City Council member Chi Ossé. (Photo via: x.com/CMChiOsse)

Democratic socialist Chi Ossé files FEC paperwork, positioning him to launch campaign against House Minority Leader Jeffries

Chi Ossé, a Democratic socialist and New York City Councilmember for Brooklyn’s 36th District, filed paperwork with the Federal Election Commission to establish a congressional exploratory committee for the state’s 8th Congressional District — positioning him to launch a 2026 Democrat primary challenge against incumbent Hakeem Jeffries.

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