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The bureau also provided the shooter’s most comprehensive portrait to date, revealing that he had concealed more than two dozen online purchases of guns and explosives under pseudonyms.
By Glenn Thrush
Reporting from Washington
Former President Donald J. Trump agreed to be interviewed by the FBI. From their investigation into the motives of the 20-year-old who tried to kill him at a crossover rally in Pennsylvania on July 13, officials from the office and Mr. Trump.
“We need to know his attitude about what he observed, just like any other witness,” Kevin Rojek, PittsburghArray cash leader, said in a call with reporters. “This is a popular interview with the victim, just like we would do. “
Trump on Fox News that the interview would take place on Thursday.
The former president’s supporters had sharply criticized Christopher A. Wray, director of the FBI, for telling a House committee last week that investigators had not definitively decided the cause of the former president’s minor ear injury. week, the F. B. I. gave his most definitive explanation yet, saying a bullet or bullet fragment had hit him, as the firm reiterated on Monday.
The office also provided the most complete (if incomplete) portrait to date of the shooter, Thomas Crooks, describing him as a friendless loner who painstakingly concealed more than two dozen online purchases of weapons and explosives from his parents’ pseudonyms. His motives, according to authorities, remain unknown, despite interviews with many people, an investigation of his electronic devices and memory cards, and the cooperation of his parents.
The offenders, whom the researchers described as “very intelligent,” were less interested in partisan politics than political violence.
It has recently amassed data on other assassination attempts, adding the shooting of Robert Fico, the Slovak Prime Minister, in May. He also typed the words “how far is Oswald from Kennedy” into a search engine.
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