Trump agrees to victim interview as FBI searches for shooter’s motive
TOPSHOT – Former US president and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump touches his injured ear during a sound check on the third day of the 2024 Republican National Convention at the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on July 17, 2024.
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Former President Donald Trump will participate in an FBI victim interview about his attempted assassination at a campaign rally, the agency told reporters Monday.
The interview with Trump “will be consistent with any other victim interview that we do,” an FBI official said in a press call.
The official said the agency wants Trump’s “perspective” on the July 13 incident, when a shooter with an AR-15-style rifle fired eight rounds while the Republican presidential nominee was on stage at the rally near Butler, Pennsylvania.
The FBI said it was unable to offer any additional details about the shooter’s motive, despite conducting hundreds of interviews, sending data requests to dozens of companies and reviewing thousands of tips in the 16 days since the attack.
An agency official in Monday’s call described the would-be assassin, 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks, as a “loner” with few social interactions outside of his immediate family.
A Trump campaign spokesman did not immediately respond to CNBC’s request for comment.
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