THE gunman who attempted to assassinate Donald Trump during a campaign rally considered targeting the Democratic and Republican National Conventions before zeroing in on the former president.
Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20, conducted extensive research on the DNC, RNC, and events of President Joe Biden before “hyper-focusing” on Trump‘s July 13 rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, the FBI disclosed on Wednesday.
Crooks searched for details about future campaign stops by Trump and Biden, who at the time was still the presumptive Democratic presidential candidate.
Federal officials described Crooks’ research as a “sustained, detailed effort to plan an attack,” FBI special agent Kevin Rojek said.
The deranged gunman eventually settled on Trump’s Butler rally and “hyper-focused” on it.
Rojek said the attempted assassination of Trump appears to have been a “target of opportunity.”
A motive has still not been determined.
The FBI reiterated that there is still no evidence that suggests a foreign enemy directed Crooks to commit the attack.
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