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On July 6, he did a Google search for, quote, ‘How far away was Oswald from Kennedy?'
I want to be clear. We have not seen any indication to suggest Crooks was directed by a foreign entity to conduct the attack,
That’s obviously significant in terms of his state of mind,
In the 30 days prior to the attack, the subject conducted more than 60 searches related to President Biden and former President Trump,
said the FBI’s Rojek, ... adding the At this time, the FBI has not identified a motive,
said Robert Wells, executive assistant director of the FBI’s National Security Branch He became hyper-focused on that specific event and looked at it as a target of opportunity,
Once a Trump rally was announced for July 13 in Butler, Pennsylvania ... Rojek said Our overall finding is the subject was only on the roof for approximately six minutes prior to the shooting. Between 6:05 and 6:11 p.m.,
when he was neutralized, Rojek said, later refuting rumors that there was a second shooter Next, from April of 2024 through July 12, the subject searched campaign events for both former President Trump and President Biden, including events scheduled to take place in western Pennsylvania specifically on July 4, 2024. On July 9, he searched ‘ballistic calculator,
The subject registered to attend the rally, and that same day he specifically searched for, ‘How far was Oswald from Kennedy?,' ‘Where will Trump speak from at Butler Farm Show,’ ‘Butler Farm show podium,’ and ‘Butler Farm show photos,'
However, we will never be able to determine the exact motivation for why the subject flew the drone,
We have a clear idea of mindset, but we are not ready to make any conclusive statements regarding motive at this time,
We saw ... a sustained, detailed effort to plan an attack on some events, meaning he looked at any number of events or targets,
said Kevin Rojek, the FBI's top official in western Pennsylvania, in a telephone briefing to reporters We're grateful to the former president for his cooperation and his time,
I would say that we see no definitive ideology associated with our subject, either left-leaning or right-leaning,
There was help, in my opinion, that has been provided based on what I see, what I’m hearing, and also from confidential information that’s coming forward, and that leads me to believe that this is far more than just criminal negligence, that there was more nefarious purposes to this event,
Mills said on Fox News’s The Ingraham Angle, guest-hosted by Jeanine Pirro What the director told Congress is a lie,
Hawley said on Fox News’s Jesse Watters Primetime If you can explain it, then good luck, because that's not the agency I worked for,
he stated in miffed voice [If ... If] you think this is the last incident, you're out of your mind, ... I pray to my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ that I'm wrong.”
The defendant had no official responsibilities related to any state’s certification of the election results,
Grand jury proceedings are secret by law, but it's not unusual in a case of this high profile for somebody to leak it,
he said, noting that witnesses