New York —The FBI says former President Donald Trump has agreed to an interview as part of the investigation into an assassination attempt on his life earlier this month.
Kevin Rojek, the special agent in charge of the FBI’s Pittsburgh field office, says investigators want to get Trump’s perspective on what happened July 13 in Butler, Pennsylvania.
Meanwhile, the FBI also said the gunman in the assassination attempt looked online for details about mass shootings, power plants and improvised explosive devices. Thomas Matthew Crooks also searched for information about the attempted assassination earlier this year of Slovakia’s prime minister.
Pennsylvania congressman chosen to lead task force investigating Trump assassination attempt
Republican Rep. Mike Kelly of Pennsylvania witnessed theassassination attemptagainst former PresidentDonald Trumpfirsthand and will now lead the House task force charged with investigating what went wrong and recommending solutions to help ensure such an attack doesn’t happen again.
Kelly represents the city of Butler. He attended Trump’s campaign rally and sponsored the legislation to create the task force, saying his community was grieving and that “the people of Butler and the people of the United States deserve answers.”
SpeakerMike Johnson, R-La., and Democratic leaderHakeem Jeffriesof New York jointly announced on Monday that 13 lawmakers, seven Republicans and six Democrats with backgrounds in law enforcement, legal affairs and the military, were appointed to the task force. It will issue a final report before Dec. 13.
“We have the utmost confidence in this bipartisan group of steady, highly qualified, and capable members of Congress to move quickly to find the facts, ensure accountability, and help make certain such failures never happen again,” Johnson and Jeffries said in their statement.
It's customary for federal agents to seek to interview victims of crimes during the course of their investigation.
The FBI said Friday that Trump was struck by a bullet or a fragment of one during the assassination attempt.
Trump took to social media to comment, sharing in part, "No, it was, unfortunately, a bullet that hit my ear, and hit it hard. There was no glass, there was no shrapnel. The hospital called it a “bullet wound to the ear,” and that is what it was."
FBI Director Christopher Wray told Congress yesterday that he wasn't sure if I was hit by shrapnel, glass, or a bullet (the FBI never even checked!), but he was sure that Crooked Joe Biden was physically and cognitively "uneventful" - Wrong! That's why he knows nothing about the…
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