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THE F-B-I ANNOUNCED NEW DETAILS ABOUT THE INVESTIGATION INTO THE ATTEMPTED ASSSASINATION OF FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP AND RELEASED PHOTOS – INCLUDING A PICTURE OF THE GUN USED IN THE ATTACK.

THE AGENCY BELIEVES THE GUNMAN, THOMAS CROOKS, “ENGAGED IN DETAILED ATTACK PLANNING” — AND BECAME “HYPER-FOCUSED” ON TRUMP’S CAMPAIGN RALLY IN BUTLER, PENNSYLVANIA ONCE IT WAS ANNOUNCED.

THE BUREAU SAYS HE SEARCHED ONLINE FOR SPECIFICS ON THE VENUE, INCLUDING “BUTLER FARM SHOW PODIUM.”

THE AGENCY RELEASED PHOTOS OF THE AR-STYLE RIFLE USED IN THE ATTACK.

ANOTHER PHOTO SHOWS THE RIFLE DISASSEMBLED. 

F-B-I- DIRECTOR CHRISTOHPER WRAY TOLD LAWMAKERS LAST MONTH CROOK’S HAD A COLLAPSIBLE STOCK. THE REVELATION EXPLAINS WHY RALLYGOERS LIKELY DIDN’T SEE HIM WITH IT.

A THIRD PHOTO SHOWS “IMPROVISED EXPLOSIVE DEVICES” FOUND IN THE TRUNK OF CROOKS’ CAR. THE AGENCY SAYS THE RECEIVER CROOKS WOULD’VE USED TO DETONATE THE DEVICE REMOTELY WAS TURNED OFF AND HAD “SEVERAL PROBLEMS IN THE WAY IT WAS CONSTRUCTED.”

THE F-B-I ALSO SAID AS EARLY AS 2019 CROOKS MADE ONLINE SEARCHES PERTAINING TO EXPLOSIVE DEVICES INCLUDING “DETONATING CORD” AND “HOW TO MAKE A BOMB FROM FERTILIZER.”

THE FBI SAID IT HAS NOT IDENTIFIED A MOTIVE NOR ANY CO-CONSPIRATORS OR ASSOCIATES OF CROOKS WITH ADVANCE KNOWLEDGE OF THE ATTACK. INVESTIGATORS HAVE ALSO NOT SEEN ANY INDICATION TO SUGGEST CROOKS WAS DIRECTED BY A FOREIGN ENTITY TO CONDUCT THE ATTACK.

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