President Donald Trump told an interviewer on Wednesday that he wants more information about the two assassination attempts against him last year—one in Florida and the other in Pennsylvania.
In an interview with Fox News, Trump said he was told by officials that the attempts on his life—at a campaign event in Butler, Pennsylvania, in July and at his golf course in West Palm Beach, Florida, in September—were done by “a couple of nut jobs.”
When asked whether he believes that assertion, he said, “I don’t know. … I don’t know what to believe.”
Federal prosecutors and Secret Service officials have said that the Florida suspect, Ryan Wesley Routh, camped out near the Trump International Golf Course for approximately 12 hours before he was spotted pointing a gun barrel through shrubbery at a perimeter fence as Trump was playing golf....
