On Wednesday, members of Congress were briefed by the FBI and the Secret Service on the investigation into attempted assassin Thomas Crooks’ motivations and acts before he shot former President Donald and others in Butler County, Pennsylvania, on Saturday. That investigation is still ongoing, but some things are now known about what Crooks was up to before the attempt.
According to three sources familiar with the briefing, on the day of the rally, Crooks, 20, sought out online photos of Butler Farm Show grounds, the site of the rally, and made searches about Allegheny Arms, a gun shop in Bethel Park, Pennsylvania, where he lived.
Lawmakers were also told that he visited the site of the rally at least one time before the attack.
The sources said he searched online in April about major depressive disorder. In the days after the rally was announced, he made searches related to Trump,…
