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The assassin of former President Donald Trump is believed to have searched the Internet a week before the attack on the assassination of President John Kennedy, FBI Director Christopher Wray said during his testimony Wednesday.
But Director Wray added that although the assassin had shown an increased interest in public figures, he did not have clear clues about his motives.
According to Mr. Wray, the author of the attack, Thomas Matthew Crooks, searched the Internet for answers to the question "how far between Oswald and Kennedy?" , referring to Lee Harvey Oswald, who assassinated President Kennedy with a sniper in 1963, in Dallas.
Wray is revealing these details to lawmakers on the House Judiciary Committee as part of new information from him about the July 13 attack on Mr. Trump's election rally in Pennsylvania.
The FBI's investigation has the agency in the middle of a political storm just months before the presidential election, with lawmakers and the public desperately seeking details about the motives that prompted the perpetrator to attack, the most serious attempt on a presidential candidate or president. the assassination of President Ronald Reagan in 1981.
The FBI has a detailed timeline of the attacker's movements and online activities, but the exact motive — or why Mr. Trump was targeted — remains unknown, Mr. Wray said.
"Many of the usual sources of information have yet to yield any noteworthy results in terms of motive or ideology," he said. Mr. Wray emphasized that the author of the attack had shown increased interest in public figures. In addition to Mr. Trump, Crooks had pictures of President Joe Biden and other figuratives on his phone — and that in the days before the attack he seemed interested in talking about Mr. Trump.
According to Mr Wray, two hours before the attack, Crooks operated a drone about 180 meters from the stage of the rally Mr Trump later stood at. Crooks had broadcast the notes at the scene and repaired the recordings later. The use of the drone near the rally just hours before Mr Trump was to be ushered on to the stage raised further questions about the lack of pre-event security measures.
Wray told the American lawmakers on Wednesday that his film "will do all the actions" to show what caused the damage to the authorities to attack former President Donald Trump.
"I have long said that we live in an environment with this result. And the assassination was an example of a tragic and issue that is never such an environment," Director Wray said in his testimony. "We will do our best. The killer is dead, but the FBI's investigation is ongoing."
Director Wray is testifying at a congressional hearing on the bureau's investigation into the assassination of former President Donald Trump. Lawmakers are expected to analyze the new details on the past motive of the author of the attack.
The House Judiciary Committee hearing is the first time Mr. Wray has spoken publicly about the incident as prosecutors investigate 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks.
But the hearing on the assassination of Mr. Trump was held in the shadow of partisan divisions within the commission.
The hearing was well ahead of the July 13 attack on former President Trump as part of the committee's routine FBI and Justice Department hearings, but questions about the assassination are dominating.
Earlier in the hearing, the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, Republican lawmaker Jim Jordan, said he expects Director Wray to answer questions about the events that occurred before, during and after the incident, but expressed doubts that he will get the answer. even before the questions started.
"I'm sure you understand that some countries are skeptical about the FBI's ability to create a fair, honest, open and transparent investigation," he declared.
Democratic lawmaker Jerrold Nadler condemned the attack on former President Trump "stubbornly and forcefully," but in his comments he emphasized years of political violence and violent rhetoric, he said, from Republicans. by Mr. Trump himself.
"If you think that this bullet attack was a surprise and not part of a violence that has been threatening to take place for years, then you have not got the point," he declared.
So far, the FBI has not been created the same as those faced by the Secret Service, which led to the resignation of director Kimberly Cheatle.
The FBI has said it is investigating the incident in Butler, Pennsylvania, from which it found the death of the victims at the rally and others serious, as an act of horrific terrorism and attempted murder./ VOA
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