BUTLER, Pa. – FBI Deputy Director Paul Abbate revealed Tuesday that federal investigators do not have complete access to emails that former President Trump’s shooter, Thomas Matthew Crooks, sent. “I think we’ve experienced a range of returns because some of the applications that he was using online were encrypted in nature,” Abbate said while testifying...
BUTLER, Pa. – The 20-year-old who attempted to assassinate former President Trump at a July 13 rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, “carefully planned” and scoped out the Butler, Pennsylvania, rally-sight, the FBI revealed on Monday. “We believe the subject made significant efforts to conceal his activities,” FBI officials said during a conference call. The FBI said...
PITTSBURGH – Republican Tennessee Sen. Marsha Blackburn on Tuesday asked the Secret Service’s new acting director why the “public has lost trust” in the agency’s “mission to protect” after a July 13 assassination attempt against former President Trump at his rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. “This agency needs to change, and if not now, when? The...
PITTSBURGH – The FBI told reporters on Monday that would-be presidential assassin Thomas Matthew Crooks had a long-standing “interest in science” and “experiments,” and as a result, his family “wasn’t concerned” about the myriad packages he was receiving at their house. Crooks, 20, made 25 gun-related purchases online between spring 2023 and the first half...
The Department of Justice has settled with two former FBI officials over violation of privacy rights. Former counterintelligence agent Peter Strzok and FBI lawyer Lisa Page filed suit against the Justice Department over the release of their text message conversations expressing contempt for former President Donald Trump. According to court documents reviewed by the Associated...
Former President Donald Trump used his Truth Social platform on Thursday evening to rip into FBI Director Christopher Wray after his congressional hearing regarding the assassination attempt on Trump. Wray testified that he wasn’t sure if it was a bullet that struck Trump in the ear while he was at an outdoor rally in Butler,...
PITTSBURGH – The FBI is looking to interview former President Trump after he survived an assassination attempt as part of their investigation into the gunman, Thomas Matthew Crooks, according to a federal law enforcement source. Agents are seeking a victim impact statement, which is a routine step in such a case, the source told Fox...
The FBI earlier this week raided the Long Island home of a former aide to New York Gov. Kathy Hochul. Federal agents searched the five-bedroom, $3.5 million residence of Linda Sun in a gated community on the North Shore of Long Island. “The FBI New York conducted court-authorized law enforcement in Manhasset,” an FBI spokesperson...
BETHEL PARK, Pa. — FBI Director Christopher Wray revealed during a House Judiciary Committee hearing that someone affiliated with the agency is being internally investigated for posting something “totally inappropriate” about former President Trump’s assassination attempt. Wray’s comments came while the agency’s director was testifying under oath on Wednesday on the Trump rally shooting in...
FBI Director Christopher Wray on Wednesday testified that a questionnaire given to some employees within the agency asked whether they supported former President Trump or if they got the COVID-19 vaccine. The admission came after questioning from Republican Wisconsin Rep. Tom Tiffany, who asked Wray during the congressional hearing about the July 13 assassination attempt...
