(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) Law enforcement and emergency personnel respond near the scene of a shooting at a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention facility in Dallas, Texas, on September 24, 2025. (ARIC BECKER/AFP via Getty Images) / (R) WASHINGTON, DC - SEPTEMBER 17: Federal Bureau of Investigation Director Kash Patel testifies before the House Judiciary Committee in the Rayburn House Office Building on September 17, 2025 in Washington, DC. Patel is facing questions from lawmakers for the second straight day following a contentious hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee where he was criticized for his handling of investigations into the assassination of political activist Charlie Kirk and the case related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)

FBI Director Patel: Dallas ICE shooting suspect analyzed Charlie Kirk assassination video prior to the attack

FBI Director Kash Patel released new evidence on the accused gunman in Wednesday’s shooting at a Dallas Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility. Patel stated that the gunman was driven by an “ideological motive” and revealed that he had studied the assassination of Charlie Kirk prior to carrying out the attack.

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