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-Lurid Crime Tales-

Trump agrees to FBI interview over attempted assassination

2024-07-30

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.

Posted by:trailing wife

#8 Bring a lawyer and a well documented timeline.

Posted by: swksvolFF 2024-07-30 16:46

#7 Trump’s attempted assassin was a ‘loner,’ FBI says, as experts share telltale signs in others across America

Posted by: Skidmark 2024-07-30 09:29

#6
Are we starting to see the Leadership of the assigned protectors looking to find reasons to blame the victim for their well documented screwup?

BTW: Hats off and salutes to those that used their own bodies to shield Trump from the shooter and the still strongly suspected possibility of a 2nd sniper.

Posted by: NN2N1 2024-07-30 08:38

#5 Astonishing new images reveal moment armed cops surrounding building where Thomas Crooks opened fire

Posted by: Skidmark 2024-07-30 08:05

#4 "rut ro"

Who is acting Secret Service Director Ronald Rowe, agency's new chief after Kimberly Cheatle resignation?

Posted by: Skidmark 2024-07-30 07:37

#3 The FBI has not uncovered a motive as to why he chose to target Trump,

I believe investigators have now learned Crooks was a pro-Biden democrat.

Posted by: Besoeker 2024-07-30 06:05

#2 After every question from the FBI Trump should ask them to repeat the question because his ear was shot.

Posted by: Airandee 2024-07-30 05:59

#1 Secret Service allegedly delayed Trump's Nashville speech following security lapse

Posted by: Skidmark 2024-07-30 04:05

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