Trump agrees to be questioned by FBI in connection with attempted assassination case
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Former US President Donald Trump has agreed to be questioned by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The questioning will be conducted in connection with the case involving the shooting at a rally in Pennsylvania, announces FBI Special Agent Kevin Rojek.
"We want to get his perspective on what he observed. It is a standard victim interview like we would do for any other victim of crime, under any other circumstance," Rojek said.
According to him, following 450 interviews, the FBI has developed a profile of the shooter, Thomas Matthew Crooks, which indicates that he was "highly intelligent" but a loner. The primary circle of the young man was his family, and he had few friends and acquaintances.
Rojek also clarified that the attacker’s parents were willing to cooperate with the investigation. They claimed that they were unaware of the shooting in advance. The FBI trusts this information because, in the weeks leading up to the attack, Crooks had not engaged in any activities that might have raised their suspicions.
The FBI has not yet determined the motive behind why he targeted Trump. However, law enforcement officials discovered that the shooter had meticulously prepared for the attack. This includes the purchase of chemical precursors in recent months, which investigators believe were used to create explosive devices found in his car and home. Additionally, the attacker used a drone 180 meters from the rally site a few hours before the event.
Rojek noted that Thomas Matthew Crooks had searched online for information about mass shootings, homemade explosive devices, and an attempted murder of Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico in May.
What preceded it
Last week, FBI Director Christopher Wray questioned the information that Trump was hit by a bullet during a campaign rally in Pennsylvania. According to him, it could have been a fragment.
Trump himself continued to insist that he had been hit by a bullet in the ear. Meanwhile, former President Trump's spokesperson, Steven Cheung, called the FBI Director’s statement "political misinformation."
Following this, it became known that the Bureau wants to question Trump in connection with the attempted assassination at the campaign rally.
You can find more details about the assassination attempt on Trump in the RBC-Ukraine material.
