The FBI director reported that the 20-year-old who tried to shoot Donald Trump During a campaign event he had searched the Internet for material on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy (JFK) in 1963, before committing the act.
This was confirmed Christopher Wrayhead of the federal police agency, testifying before a special congressional committee, where he said they have not yet been able to determine the motive that led Thomas Matthew Crooks to commit the failed attack.
In this regard, he stated that Crooks “He seems to have done a lot of research on public figures in general” although “nothing remarkable” has been detected in terms of reasons or ideology. “So far there doesn’t seem to be much reason for that”he said.
“On July 6, (Crooks) did a Google search asking “How far was Oswald from Kennedy?”he said, alluding to the assassination of Kennedy by Lee Harvey Oswald. “So that’s a search (for data) that obviously is significant in terms of his mental state”he stressed.
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On the other hand, Wray said that the young man carried out a drone flight over the event area for about 11 minutes – between 3:50 p.m. and 4:00 p.m. local time – on the day of the shooting, about 200 meters from the stage where Trump was scheduled to speak ahead of the November elections.
Thomas Matthew Crooks’ assassination of Donald Trump
Shortly after 6:00 p.m., opened fire on the Republican candidate with an AR-style assault rifle, while he was addressing his audience at a campaign event in the town of Butler, Pennsylvania.
Crooks had set up shop on the roof of a nearby building and less than 30 seconds after shooting the former president, was shot dead by a US Secret Service sniper.
The shots hit Trump in the right ear, and he was immediately evacuated. In addition, Two members of the public were injured.while A 50-year-old Pennsylvania firefighter was shot and killed.
The FBI chief confirmed that The drone and its remote control were found in the attacker’s car. In addition to that, two explosive devices were found “relatively rough”” in the car and another at Crooks’ house.
The resignation of the director of the US Secret Service
For her part, the director of the US Secret Service, Kimberly Cheatlewas harshly criticized and He ended up resigning from his position on Tuesday, a day after acknowledging that his agency had failed in its mission to prevent the attack.
Trump will seek on November 5 to repeat what he did in 2016, when he defeated Hillary Clinton and became President of the United States.
Source: Ambito
