House Intel Chairman Calls on FBI to Investigate Whether Would-Be Trump Assassins Linked to Iran

‘Saying that there have been no substantiated ties doesn’t mean that the investigation has concluded that there are no ties,’ he says.

Rep. Michael Turner (R-Ohio) speaks during a news conference on the 2023 fiscal year at the U.S Capitol building in Washington on Dec. 14, 2022. Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Turner (R-Ohio) said he wants the FBI to “come to a conclusion” on whether the two assassination attempts against former President Donald Trump this year were linked to Iran.

Speaking to CBS News’s “Face the Nation” on Oct. 6, Turner called on the FBI to release its findings from investigations into would-be assassins Thomas Matthew Crooks, who shot at Trump during a Pennsylvania rally in July, and Ryan Wesley Routh, who prosecutors say hid at Trump’s Florida golf course with a rifle for 12 hours with the intention to kill Trump before a Secret Service agent found him.