FBI Director Christopher Wray told lawmakers the assassination attempt against former president Donald Trump was “despicable.”
FBI Director Christopher Wray arrives at the Rayburn House Office Building to testify before the House Judiciary Committee at a hearing on July 24, 2024 in Washington, DC. “We are living in an elevated threat environment and tragically, the Butler County assassination attempt is another example — a particularly heinous and public one — of what I have been talking about,” Wray said.
The hearing before the House Judiciary Committee was scheduled prior to the July 13 attempted assassination of Trump at an outdoor campaign rally in Butler, Pa., but that attack is taking center stage as officials worry about political violence in a presidential election year.The gunman, 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks, fired at Trump from a rooftop just outside the rally security perimeter, using an AR-style rifle.
The committee chairman, Rep. Jim Jordan is a longtime Trump ally and critic of Wray, the FBI, and the Justice Department. He began the hearing by criticizing what he called “the Biden-Harris Justice Department” — an acknowledgment that Vice President Harris is nowWray also confirmed a number of details from the investigation that have been publicly reported already, including that there were eight spent bullet casings found near the gunman’s body — suggesting he fired at least that many times.
Two explosive devices were found in the shooter’s car, devices that Wray called “relatively crude devices themselves but they did have the ability to be detonated remotely.”FBI agents believe that because of the off position on the remote controlled devices that were attached to the homemade bombs, it appears “that if he had tried to detonate those devices from the roof, it would not have worked.”
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