The FBI revealed on Wednesday numerous online searches that former President Donald Trump‘s would-be assassin performed in the weeks and months before carrying out a shooting at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, including searches as far back as last year for Trump’s campaign events.
FBI Special Agent in Charge Kevin Rojek said in a call with reporters that while Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20, targeted both Trump and President Joe Biden, he searched for Trump’s campaign events as early as September 2023.
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