The 20-year-old who tried to shoot Donald Trump had flown a drone over the area about two hours before the former US president began his speech, FBI Director Christopher Wray confirmed on Wednesday.

The journalist from laSexta specialising in the US, Sandro Pozzi, explained on Al Rojo Vivo this Thursday that this has happened taking into account all the security that surrounds this type of event. He also pointed out that the attacker I had registered for the rally on July 6, that is, a week beforeMeanwhile, the motivation behind this attack remains unknown.

In addition, Wray explained that the attacker had searched the internet for information about the assassination of former President John F. Kennedy weeks before the shooting. The shooter, Thomas Matthew Crooks, looked up how far away Lee Harley Oswald was at the time of his assassination of Kennedy in 1963, FBI Director Christopher Wray told a congressional committee.

The 20-year-old who carried out the attack had shown a keen interest in public figures, although no clues had been found about his political ideology, the FBI chief added in his statement.

The author disguised the weapon

The FBI director also said that Crooks had used a rifle with a folding stock which could have made it easier for him to disguise the weapon before climbing onto the roof from where he fired shots at Trump.

Wray revealed that the shooter flew a drone around the area, not over the stage, but about 200 meters away, about two hours before the start of the rally and that allowed him to determine the best position to aim the weapon outside the security perimeter.

And regarding explosive devices, he said that a total of three explosive devices were recovered, two in Crooks’ vehicle and one at his home. All of them had receivers that could have allowed them to be detonated remotely.