The FBI says Thomas Matthew Crooks spent months looking into both the Republican and Democratic parties, including their national conventions, before settling on Donald Trump as a target for a shooting.
Former US president Donald Trump gestures with a bloodied face after multiple shots rang out during his campaign rally last month.The FBI says Trump rally shooter Thomas Crooks doesn't appear to have been motivated by any particular ideology in his attempted assassination of Donald Trump .
"We saw … a sustained, detailed effort to plan an attack on some events, meaning he looked at any number of events or targets," Kevin Rojek, the FBI's top official in western Pennsylvania, said in a telephone briefing to reporters. Mr Rojek said his computer activity showed he had "no definitive ideology … either left-leaning or right-leaning".The assassination attempt prompted questions about how Crooks was able to climb a nearby building and fire eight shots at the former president before being killed by a Secret Service sharpshooter.
He also searched for the dates of both the Republican and Democratic presidential conventions that took place in July and August, with turnouts of close to 20,000 people.The ABC has recreated the scene of the fatal rally in Pennsylvania.
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