FBI Shares New Details From Investigation Into Trump Assassination Attempt

Published on August 28, 2024

The man who tried assassinating former President Donald Trump spent months planning an attack, looking at various potential targets before settling on Trump, FBI officials said on Aug. 28. Thomas Crooks, the 20-year-old man, searched more than 60 times for information about the Republican presidential candidate and his then-rival, Democratic President Joe Biden, before registering in early July for a July 13 rally Trump scheduled for Pennsylvania, officials told reporters in a briefing. “We saw … a sustained, detailed effort to plan an attack on some events, meaning he looked at any number of events or targets,” Kevin Rojek, the FBI’s top official in western Pennsylvania, said....

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