U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) just subpoenaed the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). 

He did so, according to the Daily Caller, in order to try to get more information about the assassination attempt that was made on President Donald Trump's life in Butler, Pennsylvania, last year.

That's right: a whole year has gone by since the assassination attempt, yet we still do not have answers about some of even the most basic questions.

Nearly one year since the assassination attempt on @POTUS, the American people still have unanswered questions.

I just issued a subpoena to @FBI to help prompt transparency, and I look forward to @FBIDirectorKash’s full cooperation.

— Senator Ron Johnson (@SenRonJohnson) July 11, 2025

"Unanswered questions"

Johnson put out a statement, writing:

Nearly one year since the assassination attempt on @POTUS, the American people still have unanswered questions. I just issued a subpoena to @FBI to help prompt transparency, and I look forward to @FBIDirectorKash’s full cooperation.

Patel has yet to respond to the request at the time of this writing.

Many questions do indeed remain about the assassination attempt.

The Daily Caller separately reports:

For months, questions about the assassination attempt loomed. Who really was the assassin? What was his motivation? How did the Secret Service miss a man with a rifle on a rood? Will Trump be able to continue doing outdoor rallies?

The last question has been definitively answered, but the others have not.

Are they sweeping it under the rug?

One of the central promises of Trump was that he and his administration would be transparent, and, by and large, he and his administration have been. There are, however, some exceptions.

Perhaps the biggest exception of all is the administration's handling of the Epstein files. Last week, Attorney General Pam Bondi put out a statement claiming that there is no Epstein Client List.

Look, now, how the Trump administration is handling the assassination attempt. The president said this:

So there were mistakes made, and that shouldn’t have happened. And that building was a prime building in terms of what they were trying to do, but I was satisfied in terms of the bigger plot, the larger plot, I was satisfied. And, you know, great confidence in these people. I know the people, and they’re very talented, very capable. They had a bad day.

The FBI's Dan Bongino put it this way:

If there was a big, explosive ‘there’ there — given my history as a Secret Service agent, and my personal friendship, as a director does with the president, give me one logical, sensible reason we would not have — if you can think of one, there isn’t. In some of these cases, the ‘there’ you’re looking for is not there. And I know people — I get it, I understand. It’s not there. If it was there, we would have told you.

The overarching problem is a loss of trust in government by the American people, and it seems, at this point, that Bongino saying something like "take my word for it" probably isn't going to cut it. We'll have to see what Patel tells Congress, if he agrees to testify or otherwise provide information.