Trump agrees to interview with FBI on assassination attempt

Donald Trump will meet with FBI agents for a victim interview as part of the bureau’s investigation into the recent assassination attempt on the former president, an FBI official said during a briefing on Monday.

FBI Special Agent in Charge Kevin Rojek, who heads the bureau’s Pittsburgh Field Office, told reporters the interview would be “consistent with any other victim interview.”

“We provide victims with support from our victim services, and we want to get his perspective on what he observed,” Rojek said. “So just like any other witness to the crime, as well as get his perspective on what occurred to him during that event, but it is a standard victim interview, like we would do for any other victim of crime under any other circumstances.

Rojek’s remarks came as part of a broader update the FBI gave about the progress of its investigation into the shooting, which occurred at a Trump rally in Pennsylvania on July 13. The FBI is focused on the gunman, 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks, who killed one and critically injured two at the event. Trump suffered a minor injury after a bullet missed his head by inches and instead grazed his ear.

Rojek said that after more than two weeks, the shooter’s motive was “still not clear.”

Rojek noted that Crooks was a “loner” and that agents do not believe he had any close friends. Agents have said from the outset of the investigation that they believe Crooks had no accomplices or conspirators, and Rojek reiterated that was still the case.

At a hearing last week, FBI Director Christopher Wray gave some context on Crooks’s intentions, revealing that on July 6, Crooks researched Lee Harvey Oswald’s assassination of former President John F. Kennedy.

Crooks typed into the search bar, “How far away was Oswald from Kennedy,” according to Wray.

The search was performed on the same day Crooks registered to attend Trump’s rally.

This story is developing.