A top FBI official said on July 30 that investigators have discovered that a social media account possibly linked to former President Donald Trump’s would-be assassin featured hundreds of comments reflecting anti-Semitic and anti-immigration views.
Paul Abbate, deputy director of the FBI, made the remark while testifying before a joint hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee and the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on July 30, which was focused on the security failures leading up to the Trump assassination attempt.
Thomas Matthew Crooks, the gunman who fired multiple shots in the former president’s direction at a July 13 rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, is believed to have made multiple posts on social media between 2019 and 2020 that revealed anti-Semitic and anti-immigration themes….