When asked by NewsNation’s Bradley about his return to Butler, Trump’s immediate response was to cast blame on the White House for recent security difficulties.

“I think that the White House isn’t treating us very good,” he said. “I get crowds that are 10 times bigger than anybody else, 20 times bigger than anybody else. And we’re entitled to security. The White House makes it very difficult.”

A Wisconsin Trump rally was recently moved indoors due to a shortage of Secret Service officers, a fact that Trump has complained about in multiple recent appearances.

In the aftermath of the assassination attempt in Butler, the Secret Service has come under intense scrutiny for the security failures that allowed a gunman to fire multiple shots toward Trump in Butler, and then a second alleged gunman who was able to make it within several hundred yards of Trump at his West Palm Beach, Fla., golf course on Sept. 15.

The Secret Service has since increased security for Trump to a presidential level, and late last month Congress voted to boost funding for the agency by $231 million.

Meanwhile, Vance has blamed Trump’s political opponents for recent threats to the former president.

Vance at one point blamed an unnamed “they” for the Butler assassination attempt.

“They couldn’t beat him politically, so they tried to bankrupt him,” he said at an August rally in Atlanta. “They failed at that, so they tried to impeach him. They failed at that, so they tried to put him in prison. They even tried to kill him.”

In an August appearance on the Full Send Podcast, Vance also expressed anger — and suggested a partisan conspiracy — because of his perception that the assassination attempt hadn’t received sustained-enough attention.

“The people, the senior leadership, the people who run the search algorithms, it is effectively a left wing propaganda machine,” he said of Google, which he alleged was making it harder to search for content about the Butler assassination attempt.

The Butler shooting took place just two days before the Republican National Convention opened in Milwaukee, and it lent the gathering an ecstatic tone, as attendees celebrated Trump’s survival. For a brief period, it seemed that the event could reshape the race.

But the shooting proved not to have lasting effects — especially because just over a week later, President Biden dropped out of the presidential race, eventually handing the torch to Vice President Harris. The race has been essentially deadlocked ever since.