Although there is no official motive for the attempted assassination of Donald Trump, the fact that the former President of the United States was cut off by millimeters from a gunshot wound to the head and thus escaped death has always given a pretty good idea.
On Wednesday, however, the FBI attempted expand any possible motive by reporting that Thomas Crooks, who was killed by a sniper team after opening fire, was also looking for rallies featuring Joe Biden. This is consistent with previous statements by FBI Director Christopher Wray.
BREAKING NEWS: The gunman who shot Donald Trump was looking for Trump and Biden events, but saw Trump’s July rally as a “target of opportunity,” the FBI says. https://t.co/Z2JF8e3h81
— Associated Press (@AP) 28 August 2024
The shooter in Assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump A senior FBI official searched the internet for events hosted by Trump and President Joe Biden, viewing the Pennsylvania campaign rally where he opened fire last month as a “target of opportunity,” a senior FBI official said Wednesday.
Thomas Matthew Crooks, who shot Trump from a nearby rooftop before being killed by a Secret Service sniper, conducted extensive research for an attack before the shooting, looking at a range of events or targets, including the current and former president, said Kevin Rojek, special agent in charge of the FBI’s Pittsburgh field office.
The allegation is clear: Crooks was not politically motivated (at least not in a party-political sense) and only shot at Trump because his rally offered the best opportunity to carry out an assassination attempt on an critical figure.
Is that true? I suppose that depends on how much you trust the FBI, which has gone out of its way in the past to downplay politically motivated attacks against Republicans. Recall that the congressional baseball shooting that nearly killed Representative Steve Scalise was labeled “suicide by cop,” even though it was immediately clear that the shooter was a Bernie Sanders supporter who had a list of Republicans he wanted to kill. It was only years later that the recording was released. corrected.
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The FBI also continues to insist that there is no known motive for the 2017 Las Vegas shooting that killed 60 country music concertgoers. Another, more recent example is the Waukesha massacre, for which there is no official motive, even though the killer was a follower of radical left-wing black liberation theology and expressed hatred of whites.
In other words, it’s perfectly understandable that people would look at this latest FBI report and question it. Clearly, the government wants to create the impression that the planned assassination of Donald Trump was purely accidental and motivated only by opportunity. Given what happened and the FBI’s history, I am extremely skeptical.
