A new book lays out unanswered questions about the two 2024 attempts to kill Trump, arguing the official "lone gunman" story doesn't hold up — bad news for anyone who trusts the government's account.

• The FBI is sitting on 75,000 records about the Butler shooter and releasing only a couple hundred pages, even though officials call the case closed.
• Trump himself shut down the investigation into his own attempted murder, which makes no sense if it was just one crazy gunman with no accomplices.
• The shooter, Thomas Crooks, looked like a normal straight-A student still planning for college weeks before he died, with almost no online trail to explain a motive.
• A Secret Service sniper waited up to 23 seconds while Crooks fired eight shots; a local cop, not the agent Trump praises, likely stopped him.
• The people who let the attack happen got promoted, and Trump flipped from opposing an Iran war to launching one — a sharp change dated to the shooting.

Outlook: Expect continued stonewalling on the records, so the real story behind both attempts likely stays buried for now.