During a Congressional hearing about the deadly assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump on July 13, the FBI revealed that the attacker searched about former President John F Kennedy’s shooting.
The stunning details were corroborated to the Congress by FBI Director Christopher Wray in the House Judiciary Committee hearing, reported CNN.
The shooter, who was later identified as Thomas Crooks, had flown a drone over the area where Trump was scheduled to give his speech in a rally in Pennsylvania, two hours before the horrific incident, according to the details revealed by the FBI.
According to the analysis done by the FBI on Crooks’ laptop, on July 6, he googled about how far was Lee Oswald from former President Kennedy when he shot him dead in 1963. The same day he registered to be an attendee of Trump’s rally.
Director Wray said the search and comparison of distance for shooting was “a search that’s obviously significant in terms of his state of mind, that is the same day that it appears that he registered for the Butler (Pennsylvania) rally.”
The investigation team also said that Crooks fired from his A-R style rifle around eight times at the Republican candidate Donald Trump, after which he was killed by a US Secret Service sniper.
Crooks’ firing killed a man, injured two others and the bullet also hit Trump’s ears. “The weapon that he used for the attempted assassination was an AR-style rifle that was purchased legally, that he – as my understanding – acquired, I think bought actually from his father, who was the one who originally bought it,” FBI Director Wray said, as quoted by CNN.
The trickle down effect of the shootout happened on the federal agency US Secret Service, whose chief Kimberly Cheatle stepped down amid growing pressure over lapse in security arrangements during the former president’s rally.
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