Bipartisan U.S. lawmakers on a task force investigating the assassination attempt against former President Trump expected to visit Butler, Pennsylvania, on Monday.
BUTLER, Pa. — A group of bipartisan U.S. lawmakers on a task force looking into the assassination attempt against former President Trump are expected to visit the shooting scene in Butler, Pennsylvania, on Monday – some for the second time since the July 13 incident. House Speaker Mike Johnson and Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries on Aug. 4 announced the establishment of the task force on the assassination attempt against Trump and tapped Republican Pennsylvania Sen.
The task force wants to hear from tipsters and whistleblowers to determine how 20-year-old gunman Thomas Crooks was able to climb HVAC equipment and piping to get to the roof of the nearby American Glass Research building and hide there until he began shooting around 6:11 p.m. The FBI said during a July press call that Crooks had a DPMS AR-15-style firearm with a collapsible stock when he entered the area of the Butler Farm Show fairgrounds where Trump's campaign rally took place.
On the day of the rally, July 13, Crooks parked his vehicle and flew a drone between about 3:50 p.m. and 4 p.m. about 200 yards from where the former president would be speaking. FBI Director Christopher Wray testified during a July 17 congressional hearing that Crooks had been at the rally site for about 70 minutes on the morning of the assassination attempt.
Over the next hour, law enforcement identified a person of interest, and snipers took photos of Crooks and his bicycle left near the rally grounds. Republican Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley, who was briefed on the assassination attempt, previously told Fox News Digital that a sniper 'had eyes on' the suspicious person about 20 minutes before Crooks began firing. Trump took the podium around 6 p.m., an hour after he was scheduled to speak.
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