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Trump agrees to FBI interview in assassination attempt probe

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The agency wants the former US president’s ‘perspective on what he observed’ during the rally shooting.

Donald Trump has said he will provide an interview to the FBI, as part of an investigation into this month’s attempt on his life, the agency announced on Monday.

The former US president and Republican nominee for 2024 narrowly avoided death at a rally in Pennsylvania earlier this month, when a bullet grazed his ear. One person in the audience was killed, and two more were wounded.

The FBI wants to “get his perspective on what he observed, just like any other witness to the crime,” Special Agent in Charge of the FBI’s Pittsburgh Field Office Kevin Rojek told reporters in a conference call. He explained that this kind of interview is standard practice for a victim of a crime.

More than two weeks since the incident, the FBI has yet to establish the shooter’s motive.

The gunman, later identified as 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks, fired several shots while Trump was giving a speech at an open-air venue in Butler, Pennsylvania on July 13.

“While the FBI investigation may not yet have determined a motive, we believe the subject made significant efforts to conceal his activities,” Rojek said.

The agency believes his actions illustrate “careful planning ahead of the campaign rally,” the FBI official added. He noted that Crooks had a small social circle, which “appears to be limited to his immediate family,” and had “few friends and acquaintances throughout his life.”

The would-be assassin had previously used aliases to make purchases related to firearms and explosives, Rojek explained. Earlier this year, Crooks bought “six chemical precursor-related purchases online of materials used to create the explosive devices recovered in the subject’s vehicle and home,” he said.

Last week, FBI Director Christopher Wray said the agency would leave “no stone unturned” as it looks into what happened. A day earlier, Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle resigned, after admitting her agency had failed to properly guard the Republican frontrunner.

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    • You posted this first, you b*****! I thought of posting EXACTLY the same thing!!! LOL!
      They want to interview him in order to implicate him as a suspect in his own assassination.
      The FBI are as corrupt as any organization could possibly be.
      They will charge him in a federal crime of trying to assassinate himself and charge him $500 million US dollars as a fine.
      Then they will charge him another $500 million US dollars for wasting FBI resources.

    • And I forgot to mention, the CIA with their MK Ultra mind programming of the assassin who will get away with everything as they always do, although he is physically dead now. And the reasons why the roof was not protected and why when civilians were warning there was a problem and were ignored will never be investigated.

      2024: You could scream into a mobile phone with the nice multi-colored screen and multi-processor architecture and digital audio over TCP/IP using high bandwidth digital transmission into a social media company Internet site with petabytes of storage and nobody will hear you by design. So much for modern technology which seems designed to ignore our voice and our will. Our modern technology is all controlled and manipulated: We have the illusion but not the reality of communication or connection.

      Which is better? The technology that we presume to represent us or our own physical voice to our friends and family? Perhaps we need to dump our reliance upon technology and get back to real honest representative communication with our friends, family and acquaintances. Perhaps talk or give printed messages to our friends rather than be censured by corrupt Billionaire oligarchs that represent the digital false illusion but do not represent us.

  1. What do they need to interview him for when they were already there at the planning stages? 🤔🤷🏼‍♂️

    • Like an arsonist visiting the scene of the crime while the firemen put it out, , they always circle back to examine their handiwork.

  2. How can he help with the investigation? They are up to something, if at first you don’t succeed, try try again.

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