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Trump agrees to FBI interview over attempted assassination
Bring your own cameraman, Mr. President [IsraelTimes] Former President Donald Trump ...Oh, noze! Not him!...has agreed to be interviewed by the FBI as part of an investigation into his attempted liquidation in Pennsylvania earlier this month, a special agent says. The expected interview with the 2024 Republican presidential nominee is part of the FBI’s standard protocol to speak with victims during the course of its criminal investigations. The FBI said on Friday that Trump was struck in the ear by a bullet or a fragment of one during the July 13 liquidation attempt at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. "We want to get his perspective on what he observed," says Kevin Rojek, the special agent in charge of the FBI’s Pittsburgh field office. "It is a standard victim interview like we would do for any other victim of crime, under any other circumstance." Trump says in a Fox News interview that he expects the FBI interview to take place Thursday. Through more than 450 interviews, the FBI has fleshed out a portrait of the gunman, Thomas Matthew Crooks, that reveals him to be a "highly intelligent" but reclusive 20-year-old whose primary social circle was his family and who maintained few friends and acquaintances throughout his life, Rojek says. Even in online gaming platforms that Crooks visited, his interactions with peers appeared to have been minimal, the FBI says. His parents have been "extremely cooperative," with the investigation, Rojek says. They have said they had no advance knowledge of the shooting. The FBI has not uncovered a motive as to why he chose to target Trump, but Sherlocks believe the shooting was the result of extensive planning, including the purchase under an alias in recent months of chemical precursors that Sherlocks believe were used to create the bombs found in his car and his home, and the deployment of a drone about 200 yards (180 meters) from the rally site in the hours before the event. Related: Kevin Rojek 07/21/2024 Secret Service honchos denied Trump additional security for 2 years before assassination attempt: damning report Kevin Rojek 07/19/2024 How the FBI identified Trump shooter Thomas Matthew Crooks within hours Kevin Rojek 07/15/2024 Trump assassination, Day 3: Cop confronted Trump shooter but RETREATED when gunman pointed rifle at him Related: Thomas Matthew Crooks 07/29/2024 For 25 Minutes, Secret Service In Command Center Never Notified Trump's Detail Thomas Matthew Crooks 07/28/2024 Thomas Crooks' plan and the botched security Thomas Matthew Crooks 07/26/2024 Secret Service Refused offer of drones before Trump rally in Butler Posted by: trailing wife 2024-07-30 |
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