NBC News reported on Wednesday afternoon that after over 200 interviews with observers and examining over 14,000 photos of Saturday, the FBI doesn't have any information about Donald Trump's would-be assassin than they did Saturday.
Thomas Matthew Crooks opened fire on Trump during his Pennsylvania rally, grazing his ear and killing a man behind the ex-president. He was then shot and killed by U.S. Secret Service.
Information about failures by the Secret Service continues to become known.
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Andrew Desiderio of Punchbowl News spoke with two U.S. Senators during Wednesday's Capitol Hill briefing, and the FBI found many failures among agents.
For example, "62 minutes elapsed between the time the shooter was photographed as being suspicious and when he fired the shots," he posted on X.
Another failure was that "20 minutes elapsed between the time he was spotted by snipers and when he fired the shots."
While FBI Director Wray said they couldn't find a foreign connection, they have "no established motive as of now."
Crooks used encrypted communications "and had little to no social media presence," Desiderio said on Wednesday.
All they know about Crooks thus far is that he was a registered Republican, and the Trump campaign had previously tagged his family as being a pro-gun, MAGA-friendly target. It was thought that Crooks had made a donation when he was 17 to ActBlue, a Democratic donation site, however, it is being questioned.
There is a donation from another person with the same name in Pittsburg who donated those same funds, who is 69-years-old.
While ActBlue doesn't accept donations from anyone under 18 as federal law dictates, it doesn't require identification. Seventeen-year-olds also don't generally have credit cards to make such online payments, so it's not clear how the donation was made.
There are plenty of unanswered questions left for the FBI to continue investigating. Wray did not indicate when they will have the next update on the case.
