Donald Trump has agreed to be interviewed by the FBI as part of its investigation into the motives of the 20-year-old man who tried to assassinate him during a campaign rally in Pennsylvania on July 13, bureau officials and Trump said Monday.
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«We want to get his perspective on what he observed, like any other witness,» Kevin Rojek, the head of the bureau's Pittsburgh field office, said on a call with reporters. «It is a standard victim interview, like we would do.»
Trump said on Fox News that the interview would take place Thursday.
The former president's supporters had sharply criticized FBI Director Christopher Wray for telling a House committee last week that investigators had not definitively determined the cause of the minor injury to the former president's ear. By week's end, the FBI offered its most definitive explanation yet, saying that a bullet or a fragment of one had struck him, a statement that the agency reiterated Monday.
The FBI also provided the most comprehensive — if naggingly incomplete — portrait to date of the shooter, Thomas Crooks, portraying him as a friendless loner who carefully concealed from his parents more than two dozen online purchases of weaponry and explosives by using aliases. His motives, officials said, remain unknown despite interviews with hundreds of people, an analysis of his electronic