As has become somewhat routine for him, President Donald Trump spoke to reporters from the Oval Office on Thursday afternoon. They covered a variety of topics (including Daylight Saving Time, TikTok, the astronauts stuck aboard the International Space Station, and reporters who made cruel comments about 13-year-old cancer survivor DJ Daniel). One, in particular, caught my attention: a question from Fox News’ Peter Doocy regarding the status of the investigations into the two assassination attempts on Trump. 

Here was that exchange: 

REPORTER: “It’s been 7 months. Why do you think we don’t know more about the guy who shot you in the ear?”@POTUS: “And the second one with all of the cell phones… I want to find the answers… They are giving me a report next week sometime. I want to release the report.” pic.twitter.com/AqykjBZCFe

— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) March 6, 2025

TRUMP: Yeah. Yeah, well — and the second one, with all of his cellphones, so…I want to find the answers — I’ve told them. In fact, today, I said I want to find — we can no longer blame Biden for that one. He should have released that a long time ago. So, they are giving me a report next week sometime, and I do believe I’ll be releasing — I want to release the report. A lot of people have asked that question. You had one who had three apps, two of which were foreign supposedly, and who has the biggest white shoe law firm in Pennsylvania — even though they don’t live in necessarily a white shoe area — what’s that all about? His law — you know, the law firm. The other one had seven or six cellphones and — I don’t have six cellphones — and why would somebody have six cellphones? So, we’re going to be releasing a report on that soon, Peter.

Doocy then rightly notes that the dearth of information all these months later raises questions in and of itself. 

DOOCY: But just based on what you’re saying right there — the lack of information and the data points that you just gave — does that make you think that there’s some part of a…that there’s some bigger —

TRUMP: There could be — well, it makes other people think that; it makes me think it a little bit, too. I say when you have three apps and two of them are foreign, and you had an FBI that wouldn’t report on it — they didn’t want to say why — I would say that could be suspicious. And then, on the second assassin, you had, you know — and by the way, I have to tell you, Secret Service did a great job on that by spotting him — but on the second one, he had six cellphones. That’s a lot of cellphones — and a couple of them had some strange markings on them. So, yeah, I want to find out. And I would be willing to release it, I mean, maybe there’s a reason that we shouldn’t, so I don’t want to get too far ahead of my skis, but yeah, I would be very willing to release that. I’d like to see it — I want to see it myself. Not only you — I want to see that one myself.

Not specified by Trump in that exchange was who the “them” he refers to consists of — one presumes it encompasses FBI Director Kash Patel and Secret Service Director Sean Curran, both now heading the agencies primarily responsible for the investigations. 

Will such a report be forthcoming, and will it be released to the American public? Hopefully the answer to both questions is “Yes,” and we’ll know sooner rather than later.