In a chilling revelation, FBI Director Christopher Wray disclosed that Thomas Matthew Crooks, the man under investigation for an attempted assassination, had conducted a Google search about the assassination of President John F.
Kennedy on the same day he registered to attend a rally of former President Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania.
According to Fox News, Wray shared this information during his testimony before the House Judiciary Committee. "Somewhere around July 6th or so, [Crooks] became very focused on former President Trump and this rally," Wray informed the committee. He further revealed, "One of the things that I can share here today that has not been shared yet is that we've just in the last couple days found analysis of a laptop that the investigation ties to the shooter, [which] reveals that on July 6th, he did a Google search for, quote, how far away was Oswald from Kennedy? That's a search that obviously is significant in terms of his state of mind."
Wray clarified that this was the same day Crooks registered for the Butler rally. This information has added a new dimension to the ongoing investigation into the attempted assassination of Trump, which has been the subject of three Congressional hearings in as many days.
Earlier this week, former Secret Service director Kimberly Cheatle testified before the House Oversight Committee, only to resign shortly after. The House Homeland Security Committee also heard from Pennsylvania state police on Tuesday, followed by Wray's hearing on Wednesday.
Several lawmakers, including Rep. Carlos Gimenez, R-Fla., visited Butler to personally inspect the scene. Gimenez, in a video recorded on Monday, expressed his disbelief that the Secret Service had failed to secure the roof from which Crooks allegedly fired at Trump. "And so what really bothers me, and the reason I got up on the roof I'm 70 was for the director to say, Well, the steepness of the roof won't allow Secret Service agents to be up there. That was the final straw for me," he stated.
Gimenez's comments directly challenge Cheatle's previous assertion that the "sloped roof" had prevented Secret Service agents from being stationed on the building. This revelation, coupled with the new information about Crooks' Google search, raises further questions about the security measures in place and the motivations behind the attempted assassination.
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