As Donald Trump returns to Butler, Pa., there's one name he never mentions: Thomas Crooks
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76% : Trump sauntered onto the stage for the Aug. 17 event to the tune of Lee Greenwood's "God Bless the USA."62% : On July 18, Trump took the convention stage at the Fiserv Forum.
60% : "He believes Trump "would have used it already" if he thought highlighting the shooter was to his political advantage.
52% : On the campaign trail, Trump tells of travails.
52% : Trump was a few hundred yards away on the fairway at Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach.
49% : The FBI and the Pennsylvania State Police also discussed Crooks' background at the meeting with Trump.
45% : Trump would go on to make more than four dozen public appearances.
44% : At later rallies - when Trump ventured outdoors again - he'd speak behind bulletproof glass.
44% : In the 12 weeks since the July 13 shooting in Butler, Pennsylvania, Trump has spoken publicly at least 51 times at rallies, town halls, press conferences and other events.
43% : Crooks is the name Trump seemingly refuses to speak in public - even as he prepares to revisit the scene of the crime for the first time, with another rally in Butler, Pennsylvania scheduled for Saturday.
43% : Routh is alive and therefore it's worth discussing why he did this as the investigation into his motives continues," a Trump campaign official told USA TODAY in an email explaining the different responses.Res, the former Trump employee turned critic, believes Trump hasn't mentioned Crooks because there's no political gain, otherwise he "absolutely" would.
43% : And talking about young men, who have been flocking to Trump in a race that's in a dead heat.
42% : Comperatore's firefighter jacket and helmet were on stage at the Republican National Convention with Trump, who pointed to them as the crowd chanted "Corey, Corey."
41% : Trump's standard playbook when attacked is to "hit back ten times harder," said Barbara Res, who worked as executive vice president for the Trump Organization and his since written a book critical of Trump.
38% : Later that morning, Trump posted, "it was God alone who prevented the unthinkable from happening.
37% : Against this backdrop, not much is known about the effect the assassination attempt has had on Trump.
36% : So, Trump will keep hitting the campaign trail and, if recent history is an indicator, will keep telling a story about a shooting.
35% : During a rally in Long Island last month, Trump appeared to get nervous when he mistook someone approaching the stage.
35% : "I took the bullet for democracy," Trump said, adding: "I might have taken it because of their rhetoric," referring to Democrats.
35% : A day later, Trump shared an article focused on Routh's activities overseas -- he traveled to Ukraine to support the country in the war with Russia in 2022 and 2023.
35% : "But God had saved Trump from Crooks, said 22-year-old Timothy Denhollander, from Pittstown, New Jersey.
34% : The man, who never had Trump in his line of sight, dropped the weapon and fled on foot to his vehicle, driving off in the black Nissan SUV, authorities say.
33% : In Michigan, Trump highlighted the murder of a woman by a man who entered the U.S. illegally.
33% : "It's behind him," Res said of Trump and the Butler shooting.
32% : How much Trump had been told about Crooks' background prior to his interview with the FBI is unclear.
31% : For Trump, it's "a clear shot, no pun intended," Spicer said.
30% : Denhollander, a devout Christian who said he lives at home with 13 siblings, wore a shirt to the rally with an image of Trump pumping his fist after being shot in Butler, blood streaked across his face.
28% : A T-shirt with an image of Trump with two middle fingers in the air and the words "You missed."
27% : Trump hasn't stopped his retelling of the story.
25% : "Agents took the time to provide the former president with an in-depth briefing on the investigation and answered his questions regarding the attempt on his life," Wells said.Trump never talked about any of it in his public appearances.
25% : Trump said the day after Routh was arrested, blaming Democratic rhetoric from Harris and others for what happened at his golf club.
24% : A source close to the campaign said Trump should be wary of giving Crooks a platform.
24% : His retelling includes Corey Comperatore, the former firefighter killed by a bullet meant for Trump.
22% : While Trump convalesced and called for unity in his Truth Social posts, his allies started casting blame.
17% : Instead of talking about Crooks, Trump named other criminals, including undocumented immigrants.
15% : In the past, Trump has been accused of amplifying other actions that resulted in violence, including the Jan. 6 attacks on the Capitol and the 2017 clash between white supremacists and counter protesters in Charlottesville, Virginia.
9% : Donning a blue suit with an American flag pin on the lapel, House Speaker Mike Johnson went on NBC's Today show after the shooting and said Trump was a victim of incendiary rhetoric.
6% : Top Trump adviser Chris LaCivita blamed "leftist activists, Democratic donors" and Biden for "disgusting remarks" about Trump, implying they put him at risk.
5% : He denounced Trump as "brainless," after once supporting him, writing in a self-published book that the Iranians "are free to assassinate Trump."
4% : He accused Biden and Harris of giving them free rein.In North Carolina, Trump mentioned Shawn Michael Tillman, who shot and killed a man on a train platform in St. Paul, Minnesota in May 2022.
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