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FBI director: The author of the attack on Trump had searched the Internet for information on the Kennedy assassination

2024-07-24 23:10:10Kosova&Bota SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
FBI director: The author of the attack on Trump had searched the Internet for
FBI Director Christopher Wray

The author of the assassination of former President Donald Trump is believed to have searched the Internet a week before the attack for information on the assassination of US President John Kennedy, FBI Director Christopher Wray said during his testimony on Wednesday.

But Director Wray added that although the assassin had shown increased interest in public figures, he had not left behind clear traces of ideological motives.

According to Mr Wray, the perpetrator of the attack, Thomas Matthew Crooks, searched the Internet for answers to the question "what was the distance between Oswald and Kennedy?", referring to Lee Harvey Oswald, who assassinated President Kennedy with a sniper in 1963. in Dallas.

Director Wray revealed these details to lawmakers on the House Judiciary Committee as part of new information he provided about the July 13 attack on Mr. Trump's campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.

The FBI's investigations have put the agency in the middle of a political firestorm just months before the presidential election, with lawmakers and the public desperately seeking details about the motives behind the attack, the most serious attempt to kill a president or presidential candidate since the assassination of President Ronald Reagan in 1981.

The FBI has built a detailed timeline of the attacker's movements and online activities, but the exact motive — or why Mr. Trump was targeted — remains unknown, Mr. Wray said.

"Many of the usual sources of information have yet to produce anything worth mentioning in terms of motive or ideology," he said. Mr. Wray emphasized that the author of the attack had shown increased interest in public figures. As well as Mr Trump, Crooks had pictures of President Joe Biden and other key figures on his phone - and that in the days before the attack he seemed particularly interested in Mr Trump.

According to Mr Wray, two hours before the attack, Crooks used a drone about 180 meters from the stage of the rally where Mr Trump later stood. Crooks had live-streamed the footage from the scene and edited the footage later. The use of the drone near the rally just hours before Mr Trump was to take the stage prompted further questions about the shortcomings of security measures ahead of the event.

Wray told US lawmakers on Wednesday that his agency "will make every effort" to find out what caused authorities to fail to prevent the assassination of former President Donald Trump.

"I have long said that we live in an environment with increased threats. And the assassination was a tragic and particularly despicable example of such an environment," Director Wray said in his testimony. "We will do our best. The killer is dead, but the FBI's investigation is ongoing."

Director Wray is testifying at a congressional hearing on the bureau's investigation into the assassination of former President Donald Trump. Lawmakers are expected to ask him for new details on the attacker's motive and background.

The House Judiciary Committee hearing is the first time Mr Wray has spoken in detail about the incident as agents continue to investigate 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks.

But the hearing on the assassination of Mr. Trump was held in the shadow of partisan divisions within the commission.

The hearing was scheduled long before the July 13 attack on former President Trump as part of the commission's routine oversight of the FBI and Justice Department, but questions about the assassination are dominating.

Earlier in the hearing, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Rep. Jim Jordan, a Republican, said he expects Director Wray to answer questions about the events that occurred before, during and after the incident, but expressed doubts that he will get any answers. even before the questions started.

"I'm sure you understand that a significant portion of the country is skeptical about the FBI's ability to conduct a fair, honest, open and transparent investigation," he declared.

Democratic lawmaker Jerrold Nadler condemned the attack on former President Trump "unequivocally and forcefully," but his comments highlighted years of threats and political violence as well as what he called violent rhetoric from Republicans. including by Mr. Trump himself.

"If you think this assassin's bullet was a surprise and not part of a wave of violence that has been threatening our country for years, then you have missed the point," he declared.

So far, the FBI has not faced the same concerns that the Secret Service faced, which led to the resignation of Director Kimberly Cheatle.

The FBI has said it is investigating the incident in Butler, Pennsylvania, which left one rally participant dead and two others seriously injured, as an act of domestic terrorism and attempted murder./VOA


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