In a call with journalists on Wednesday, a senior FBI official shared that the gunman searched online for events of both the former president and Joe Biden and saw the Pennsylvania campaign rally where he opened fire last month as a “target of opportunity.” Crooks, who shot at Trump from a nearby roof before being killed by a Secret Service counter-sniper, did extensive research for an attack before the shooting and had looked at any number of events or targets, including the current and former president.
Guardian
We were told that on the day it happened. What's weird is there have been no journalists doggedly researching this story.
Crooks conducted dozens of searches related to both Trump and the president, according to the FBI.
His search history, however, revealed that he may have spent years thinking about committing violence.
Crooks began researching explosive devices as far back as 2019 and continued to do so into 2024.
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“When … the Trump rally was announced, early in July, he became hyper-focused on that specific event and looked at it as a target of opportunity,” Rojek said.
The new details were disclosed as FBI officials, in the latest in a series of briefings about the investigation, revealed that they had yet to uncover a motive for attack in Butler, Pennsylvania, despite conducting nearly 1,000 interviews.
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The 20-year-old Pennsylvania-resident had demonstrated a marked interest in politics, making a small political donation to an organization called Progressive Turnout Project that supports Democrats before he could even vote, and registering Republican shortly after his 18th birthday, but little has been uncovered about his beliefs or even his partisan leanings at the time of the shooting.
Weird.
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