Eric Trump said he is “not satisfied” with the ongoing federal investigation into the man who tried to assassinate his father last year in Butler, Pennsylvania.
“I am wholly pissed off about it,” he said on Wednesday’s episode of “Pod Force One with Miranda Devine."
President Donald Trump’s son has repeatedly expressed frustration with the FBI probe amid a press tour for his new book, “Under Siege,” while claiming that the “radical left” is fueling political violence against right-wing figures.
During Wednesday’s interview, Eric Trump said the book’s title was based on “the fact that we were debanked and they tried to, you know, screw up our family, and they made up the dirty dossier, and they impeached my father and then they silenced us and then they gag-ordered us.”
He added: “And then one day they tried to kill my father. And then they tried to do it eight weeks later at a golf course about two miles away from where we’re sitting right now.”
The FBI has not yet determined a motive in its ongoing investigation into Thomas Michael Crooks, the 20-year-old gunman who tried to assassinate Donald Trump during a campaign rally on July 13, 2024.
Crooks that day fired at Donald Trump with an AR-15-style rifle, killing one attendee, wounding two others and grazing Trump’s ear. A Secret Service sniper quickly killed Crooks with a single gunshot to the head, according to the coroner’s report.
Two months after Crooks’ assassination attempt, Secret Service agents at Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach apprehended Ryan Wesley Routh, who intended to kill Donald Trump with a semi-automatic rifle. Routh was convicted in September on five federal charges, including attempted assassination, and faces up to life in prison.
Eric Trump has previously blamed the “radical” and “intolerant left” for inspiring Crooks and Routh, as well as the shooter who murdered prominent right-wing activist Charlie Kirk in September.
“I think they did everything they could to take that father off that stage,” he told CNN’s Michael Smerconish last month. “And yes, do I think they tried to do exactly to my father what they did to Charlie Kirk, where they shot a good friend of mine in the neck, and I see my buddy bleeding to death? Yes!”
Donald Trump has charged the “radical left” with encouraging political violence, as well. The president has escalated his rhetoric since a gunman killed Kirk during a Turning Point USA event at Utah Valley University on Sept. 10.
“The radical left is causing this problem. Not the right, the radical left,” the president said on Sept. 25. “And it’s going to get worse, and ultimately it’s going to go back on them.”
Democrats he pushed back against the president’s claims, calling for the White House and its allies to take a more judicious approach.
“The murder of Charlie Kirk could he united Americans to confront political violence,” Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) said on X. “Instead, Trump and his anti-democratic radicals look to be readying a campaign to destroy dissent.”
Eric Trump, however, has not backed off his claims that the left is fueling political violence. And he continues to call for more answers regarding the Butler assassination attempt.
“I hope there’s a really good, thorough investigation,” he told Devine. “Because as a son, as I sit there with my 4-year-old and my 6-year-old on my lap, and I saw my father’s head almost come off, I remain completely unsatisfied as to who this person was and the guy’s intent and why he did it and what was on his cell phone.”