President Donald Trump told the Daily Caller on Thursday that he is “very satisfied” with the FBI’s investigation into the assassination attempt against him in Butler, Pennsylvania—marking the first time he has publicly expressed full confidence in the probe.
Trump’s remarks to Daily Caller White House Correspondent Reagan Reese come after months of public doubt surrounding the official narrative. It’s the first time he has openly expressed full confidence in the FBI’s investigation. In a previous interview with Fox News, Trump had voiced trust in his team but admitted that certain elements of the case felt “a little bit strange.”
“I’m relying on my people to tell me what it is … The Secret Service, they tell me it’s fine. But it’s a little hard to believe,” Trump said at the time.
FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino said in March in a Fox News interview, “In some of these cases, the ‘there’ you’re looking for is not there. And I know people — I get it, I understand. It’s not there. If it was there, we would have told you.”
During a White House briefing that month, Daily Caller correspondent Reagan Reese asked Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt if the president was satisfied with Bongino’s explanation regarding the assassination attempt. Leavitt declined to elaborate, replying, “Well, in the lead-up to your question, you answered your own question with the president’s own words, and I’ll leave it at that.”
