FBI director discusses the Trump rally shooter’s search history and drone details

FBI manager Christopher Wray said connected Wednesday that the idiosyncratic who attempted to assassinate erstwhile President Donald Trump searched the web for “How acold distant was Oswald from Kennedy?” 1 week earlier the rally shooting, arsenic reported by the The New York Times.

Investigators recovered the hunt from a laptop linked to 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks, which refers to the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy by Lee Harvey Oswald. “That’s a hunt that’s evidently important successful presumption of his authorities of mind,” Wray said during a hearing earlier the House Judiciary Committee. “That is the aforesaid time that it appears that helium registered for the Butler rally.”

As reported by the NYT, Wray said Crooks visited the tract of the Butler, Pennslyvania rally 2 times connected the greeting of July 13th. During his 2nd visit, the shooter appears to person flown a drone astir the showground for astir 11 minutes. The drone was made by DJI, according to a study from CNBC.

The FBI besides broke into the shooter’s phone past week, but his motive remains unclear. “A batch of the accustomed repositories of accusation person not yielded, thing notable successful presumption of motive oregon ideology,” Wray said.