The gunman who tried to kill Donald Trump mounted a “sustained and detailed effort” to attack a large gathering of some kind before deciding to target the Republican presidential candidate at a Pennsylvania rally in July, FBI officials said.
According to the FBI, Thomas Crooks, 20, searched more than 60 times for information about the Republican presidential candidate and his then-rival, Democratic President Joe Biden, before registering for Trump’s rally in early July.
“We saw … a detailed and sustained effort to plan an attack on a number of events, which means he saw a number of events and targets,” Kevin Rojek, the FBI’s top official in western Pennsylvania, said in a phone call with reporters.
Rojek said Crooks was “hyper-focused” on the Trump rally when it was announced in early July “and looked at it as a target of opportunity.”
Rojek said the FBI has not yet determined what motivated Crooks to attempt to assassinate Trump at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, on July 13.
Crooks’ computer activity showed he was interested in a mix of ideologies, but did not definitively show he was motivated by a specific left or right viewpoint, Rojek said.
FBI officials said they found no evidence to suggest Crooks had worked with others or had been directed by a foreign power.
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Source: CNN Brasil
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