Crooks’ laptop exercise confirmed he was inquisitive about a mixture of ideologies, however didn’t present definitively that he was motivated by a selected left-leaning or right-leaning perspective, Rojek mentioned.
FBI officers mentioned that they had not discovered any proof indicated that Crooks had labored with different folks, or had been directed by a international energy.
There have been no traces of illicit medication or alcohol in his system.
The assassination try prompted questions on how Crooks was capable of climb a close-by constructing and fireplace eight pictures on the former president earlier than being killed by a Secret Service sharpshooter. A number of congressional and authorities probes are analyzing the occasion’s safety measures.
The FBI, in the meantime, is investigating Crooks himself. Officers mentioned that they had gained some understanding of his mindset, even when they nonetheless didn’t know what motivated him.
Crooks looked for Trump’s marketing campaign occasions as early as September 2023, FBI officers mentioned, and commenced looking out in April for marketing campaign occasions for each candidates close to the place he lived in western Pennsylvania.
He additionally looked for the dates of each the Republican and Democratic presidential conventions, they mentioned.
Within the days main as much as the Jul 13 rally, he looked for details about the location, together with the place Trump would converse and particulars of the corporate that owned a close-by constructing the place he would later fireplace the eight pictures, one among which grazed Trump’s ear. Video proof reveals Crooks was solely on the constructing’s roof for about six minutes.
Crooks, who left a number of explosive gadgets in his automobile, had looked for details about bomb elements as early as 2019.
