On the two-year anniversary of the assassination attempt against him in Butler, Pennsylvania, President Donald Trump told Newsmax on Monday that the Secret Service "made a mistake" that day.

Thomas Matthew Crooks was on a rooftop about 150 yards from where Trump was speaking during a 2024 campaign rally. He fired a total of eight shots, one of which grazed Trump's right ear.

Crooks' gunfire also struck and killed former firefighter Corey Comperatore and critically injured two other spectators before a Secret Service countersniper shot and killed him.

"We watch it, and I watch it all the time. And he shouldn't have been where he was. He should have been in no location, frankly," Trump told "Greg Kelly Reports."

"But that was a mistake they made. The Secret Service made that mistake. And they've done a lot of things right. They've done almost everything right. But that was bad leaving him up there in that area," he continued.

"That was an open area. We should have been covered. The fact is that Crooks was a very disturbed young man, a very nutty man. Smart academically, by the way, but very, very disturbed. And he paid the price."

Trump praised the Secret Service countersniper for acting quickly to neutralize Crooks.

"We had an antisniper, basically someone who shoots the snipers — nice, nice world we're living in, right? But he was given 4.6 seconds. Within 4.6 seconds, he hit the sniper right between the eyes," Trump said.

"I mean, it was amazing, actually. And he was close to 400 yards away and given no chance because, you know, I mean, frankly, we didn't know he was up there," he said.

"That was the other thing. They should have had better communication with the local police," Trump continued.

"So there were a lot of things, but in the end, I was really blessed by God because I had made that little turn which was really not so little. It was exactly a 90-degree — if it wasn't exact, the whole thing is a miracle. It's really a miracle. It's amazing."

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