Trump’s would-be assassin flew drone, had 2 explosives — FBI

FBI Director Christopher Wray said that Thomas Matthew Crooks, the shooter at former president Donald Trump, was flying a drone around the area of the rally, approximately 200 yards from the stage. The drone was in the air for approximately 11 minutes, and investigators believe that the would-be assassin watched a live feed from the drone on his phone about 4 p.m. on July 13 in Butler, Pennsylvania, Wray told a Congressional hearing on Wednesday. In addition, Crooks had two explosives in his car at the time of the shooting and one in his home, but likely did not have the ability to detonate them from the roof where he was killed, the FBI chief pointed out. It looks like because of the on/off position on the receivers, that if he had tried to detonate those devices from the roof, it would not have worked. Investigators have been able to reverse-engineer the flight path of the drone from the day of the rally and now think that the drone footage "would have shown the shooter what would have been behind him. I t was almost like giving him a rear-view mirror of the scene behind him. "On July 6, he did a Google search for: 'how far away was Oswald from Kennedy.' He registered on the same day. FBI has so far no evidence on the motivation," Wray went on. FBI investigation is focused on the shooter - indicating that questions about the Secret Service's actions were being covered by other investigations, he added. Source: Kuwait News Agency