FBI Director Christopher Wray revealed to the House Judiciary Committee that the investigation into Trump pantyhose shooter Thomas Matthew Crooks has found explosive devices.
the committee pointed out that Wednesday's hearing is “to examine the FBI's investigation into the assassination attempt against President Trump and the ongoing politicization of the nation's preeminent law enforcement agency under the director of the “FBI Christopher Wray and Attorney General Merrick Garland”.
Wray stated that the FBI “recovered three [explosive] devices, two in his vehicle and one in his residence,” referring to the 20-year-old who attempted to assassinate former President Donald Trump at a July 13 rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.
“I would say these are relatively … crude devices. But they did have the ability to be remotely detonated,” Wray told lawmakers.
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“In addition to the two devices that we recovered from his vehicle, there were receivers for those two explosive devices with the devices. And then on the shooter himself, when he was killed by law enforcement, he had a transmitter with him ,” Wray continued.
“Now, I want to add an important point here is that at the moment… it appears that due to the on/off position of the receivers, if I had tried to detonate these devices from the ceiling, it would not have worked,” added the head of the FBI “But that doesn't mean the explosives weren't dangerous.”
The FBI has reportedly been investigating the incident as a possible act of domestic terrorism as well as an assassination attempt on the former president who was shot in the right ear.
“We have recovered a drone that appears to have been used by the shooter. It is being operated and analyzed by the FBI lab. The drone was recovered in his vehicle. So at the time of the shooting, the drone was in his vehicle with the controller ” explained Wray.
He told lawmakers that Crooks “was flying the drone over the area” of the rally around 4 p.m., about two hours before Trump took the stage about 200 yards away.
Wray also testified about the gun Crooks had used, saying he fired eight times before being killed by a US Secret Service sniper.
“The weapon that he used in the attempted murder was an AR-style rifle that was legally purchased, which he, to my understanding, acquired, I believe he purchased from his father, who be the one who originally bought it,” Wray said. .
The FBI director noted that “it is, frankly, a dangerous time to be a prominent public servant.”
He addressed Crooks' reports that he had done some online searches before the shooting.
“It looks like the shooter has done a lot of public figure searches in general, but so far we're seeing kind of news articles and things like that,” Wray said, adding, “so the images that have been reported , really what We're talking about is that when you do a news search for an article, the image appears in a cache rather than as a search for that specific individual.
Wray's testimony follows the dramatic grilling of now-Secret Service Director Kim Cheatle before the House Oversight Committee on Monday. He later resigned when the House Homeland Security Committee held a hearing on Tuesday. Cheatle did not appear at that hearing and neither did his boss, DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.
However, the committee did hear testimony from other witnesses, including Colonel Christopher L. Paris, the commissioner of the Pennsylvania State Police, and Patrick Yoes, the national president of the Fraternal Order of Police.
“I have long said that we live in a high threat environment,” Wray said in his opening statement Wednesday. “The shooter may be dead, but the FBI investigation is ongoing.”
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