Former President Donald Trump agreed to an interview with the FBI regarding his attempted assassination earlier in the month, reported NBC News on Monday.
It has been noted that the interview with Trump would be consistent with any interview the bureau would conduct for any victim of crime under any circumstances, an official said.
The FBI investigation has found that attempted assassin Thomas Matthew Crooks was a “highly intelligent” person as well as “a loner” with few friends and acquaintances outside of his family, and had a growing interest in weapons.
His motive is still not known. The FBI has conducted hundreds of interviews and requested information about his online accounts, including gaming accounts, from dozens of companies, an official said.
His search history included seeking information about the attempted assassination of Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico earlier this year, as well as mass shootings and power plants, an official said.
The FBI revealed that Crooks had searched “how far away was Oswald from Kennedy?” about the assassination of former President John F. Kennedy by Lee Harvey Oswald, about a week before the attack.
The FBI also found that the ladder Crooks purchased before the shooting was not taken to the Trump rally, though officials found a bloodied receipt for it on his body. Crooks did appear to have used a drone ahead of the attack, although no recorded footage was found on the drone, the FBI said.
Crooks fired off eight rounds just 25-30 seconds after a local police officer attempted to confront him on the roof. As NBC News has previously reported, citing the FBI and law enforcement, the officer was boosted up above the roof line by a colleague and Crooks pointed his weapon at the officer just before firing.
