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- Trump Shooter Acted Alone, Motive Remains Unclear After Months of Preparations
Trump Shooter Acted Alone, Motive Remains Unclear After Months of Preparations
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According to the articles, Thomas Matthew Crooks, a 20-year-old gunman, attempted to assassinate Donald Trump at a Pennsylvania rally on July 13. Crooks had conducted extensive research and planning for the attack, searching online for information about Trump and other events over 60 times. FBI officials described his efforts as a "sustained, detailed" and "hyper-focused" attempt to plan an attack. The gunman's online search history revealed a mixture of ideologies, but the specific motivations behind the attack are not clear. Crooks ultimately grazed Trump's ear, killed one man, and seriously injured two others before being killed by a Secret Service counter-sniper.
He became hyper-focused on that specific event and looked at it as a target of opportunity.
When … the Trump rally was announced, early in July, he became hyper-focused on that specific event and looked at it as a target of opportunity.
We see no definitive ideology associated with our subject, either left leaning or right leaning.
We saw ... a sustained, detailed effort to plan an attack on some events, meaning he looked at any number of events or targets.
We believe the subject engaged in detailed attack planning.
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sources
perspectives
countries
organizations
- 1.Republican Party
- 2.Democratic Party
- 3.Federal Bureau of Investigation
- 4.United States Secret Service
- 5.ActBlue
- 6.Progressive Turnout Project
persons
- 1.Donald Trump
- 2.Thomas Matthew Crooks
- 3.Joe Biden
- 4.Kevin Rojek
- 5.John F Kennedy
- 6.Lee Harvey Oswald
- 7.Christopher Wray
- 8.Clay Higgins
- 9.Kimberly Cheatle
- 10.Ronald Rowe