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A day after Secret Service director Kimberly Cheatle resigned facing the heat over the Donald Trump assassination bid, FBI director Christopher Wray told the Congress Wednesday that FBI will leave no stone unturned in its investigation of the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump. He said the motive of Thomas Mathhew Crooks firing at Donald Trump at the Pennsylvania rally is not yet revealed.
“I have been saying for some time now that we are living in an elevated threat environment and tragically the Butler County assassination attempt is another example – a particularly heinous and public one – of what I’ve been talking about,” Wray said.
The hearing had been scheduled well before the shooting, as part of the committee’s regular oversight of the FBI and Justice Department.
Wray told members of the House Judiciary Committee that Crooks flew a drone near the site of the rally roughly two hours before he opened fire. The investigators recovered the drone in Crooks’ vehicle, and the bureau believes he was watching video streamed from the device to scout the area.
On the drone, Wray said, the device and a controller were recovered from Crooks’ car and are being analyzed by the FBI. He said that the shooter was flying the drone around the area — not over the stage, but roughly 200 yards away — around 3:50 p.m. or 4 p.m. local time on the day of the shooting.
“We think — but we do not know, so this is one of those things that is qualified because of our ongoing review — that he was live-streaming, viewing the footage” for roughly 11 minutes, Wray said.
“I have been saying for some time now that we are living in an elevated threat environment and tragically the Butler County assassination attempt is another example – a particularly heinous and public one – of what I’ve been talking about,” Wray said.
The hearing had been scheduled well before the shooting, as part of the committee’s regular oversight of the FBI and Justice Department.
Wray told members of the House Judiciary Committee that Crooks flew a drone near the site of the rally roughly two hours before he opened fire. The investigators recovered the drone in Crooks’ vehicle, and the bureau believes he was watching video streamed from the device to scout the area.
On the drone, Wray said, the device and a controller were recovered from Crooks’ car and are being analyzed by the FBI. He said that the shooter was flying the drone around the area — not over the stage, but roughly 200 yards away — around 3:50 p.m. or 4 p.m. local time on the day of the shooting.
“We think — but we do not know, so this is one of those things that is qualified because of our ongoing review — that he was live-streaming, viewing the footage” for roughly 11 minutes, Wray said.
