FBI Director Christopher Wray testimony before Congress regarding Trump attempted assassination.
FBI Director Christopher Wray testifies under oath before Congress The gunman who tried to kill former President Donald J. Trump searched online for details of John F. Kennedy’s assassination a week before the shooting, apparently typing, “How far away was Oswald from Kennedy?” the director of the F.B.I. told lawmakers on Wednesday. The disclosure by the F.B.I. director, Christopher A. Wray, to the House Judiciary Committee, appeared to be a possible first indication that the shooter began to contemplate an assassination. That same day, July 6, he appears to have registered to attend the rally in Butler, Pa., where Mr. Trump was set to speak, Mr. Wray added. “That’s a search that obviously is significant in terms of his state of mind,” Mr. Wray said, noting that the gunman’s interest in public figures around that time “became very focused on former President Trump and this rally.”