FBI details shooter’s search history before Trump assassination attempt– www.washingtonpost.com

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The gunman who tried to kill former president Donald Trump conducted internet searches related to power plants, mass shooting events and the attempted assassination this year of Slovakia’s prime minister, FBI officials said Monday, offering new details about what they described as the gunman’s “careful planning” for the attack.

The details, including Thomas Matthew Crooks’s interest in the attack on Prime Minister Robert Fico, were released as agents continue to unpack data pulled from the gunman’s cellphones, laptop and other digital devices. Fico was gravely wounded in the May shooting.

In a call with reporters on Monday, FBI officials said Trump has agreed to an interview about the assassination attempt against him at a July 13 campaign rally in Butler, Pa.

“We want to get his perspective as to what he observed,” said Kevin Rojek, who heads the FBI’s Pittsburgh field office, which is leading the investigation. “It is a standard interview we would do for any other victim of crime.”