Trump accepts to conduct a victim interview with the FBI following assassination attempts
A former President Donald Trump has agreed to take part in a victim discussion with FBI specifically focused on his attempted assassination.
WASHINGTON — Former President Donald Trump has agreed to participate in a victim interview with the FBI focused on his attempted assassination, a bureau official told reporters Monday.
An interview conducted with Trump will be in line with any other interview that the bureau conducts for anyone who is a victim of crime under any circumstances, a source said.
Trump confirmed the plans on Monday night.
“They’re arriving on Thursday to meet myself,” he said in an interview with Fox News.
An FBI investigation has concluded that the assassin Thomas Matthew Crooks was an “highly knowledgeable” man as well as “a lonely” with only a few acquaintances or friends apart from his family, and that he was also an increasing interest in guns.
The motive for his actions is unclear. It is believed that the FBI has conducted a number of interrogations and demanded information on his online accounts, which include games accounts, through numerous firms, according to an official. His past searches included details about the attempted assassination attempts of Slovak prime minister Robert Fico this year, and also large-scale shootings as well as power plant, according to a government official. This week the FBI has revealed that Crooks had conducted a search of “how far Oswald was Oswald away from Kennedy?” concerning the assassination of the president John F. Kennedy by Lee Harvey Oswald, about one week prior to the assassination.
The FBI discovered they found that ladder that ladder Crooks bought prior to the shooting didn’t get transported for the Trump rally, but officials discovered a bloody receipt in his corpse. Crooks appeared to have utilized drones prior to the attack, however there was no footage recorded on the drone according to the FBI claimed.
Crooks fired eight rounds in just 25-30 minutes after a local police officer attempted to take him down at the top of his roof. NBC News has reported, using the FBI as well as other law enforcement reports, that the police officer was elevated over the roof by a coworker and that Crooks fired his weapon at the officer right before firing.
Crooks appear to have planned the attack prior to the rally, and he worked hard to conceal his plans An official told reporters during the briefing of reporters on Monday, two weeks following the attempted murder on July 13 Trump’s life.
FBI Director Paul Abbate said Monday that the bureau was working round the clock in the investigation. He added that even though the bureau usually does not release regular updates on the ongoing investigation, FBI personnel felt the need to do this was crucial to all American public.
U.S. Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle resigned last week following the attack, and following an unpopular House hearing on the incident. The Senate will hold its own hearing later this week, along with the FBI as well as the Department of Homeland Security.
Abbate stated that the bureau was collecting information but not focusing on identifying the failures of the law enforcement agency the day before, stating the type of analysis they were doing should be left to other agencies.
“The entire FBI is dedicated to exposing the truth regarding the attack on the former president Trump as well as the murder of. Comperatore as well as the harm to other people,” Abbate said, speaking of the death of Corey Comperatore an attendee at the rally whom suffered a fatal injury and was killed during this attack. Two other victims were wounded.
FBI Director Christopher Wray told Congress last week that “there’s some uncertainty regarding whether it was shrapnel or a bullet” that struck Donald Trump’s ears during his assassination attempts and fueled conspiracy theories surrounding the assassination attempt.
FBI Agent Kevin Rojek, who runs the Pittsburgh office, told reporters on Monday Trump was hit by an unidentified bullet, regardless of whether it was a full or fragmented bullet. He echoed the statement of the FBI that was released Friday following the testimony of Wray in Congress.
Rojek declared Rojek said Crooks seemed to have “made considerable efforts to hide his actions.”
Rojek said Crooks appeared to be “a loner,” and another official said there was no indication that Crooks had any mental health treatment or institutionalization.
The FBI has been unable to get into some Crooks accounts due to the use of encrypted apps according to a bureau official.
“Encryption is a problem for us during this investigation,” stated FBI agent Bobby Wells.
Ryan J. Reilly is an investigative reporter for justice at NBC News.
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