Lawmakers investigating the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump visited the site of the attack in Pennsylvania on Monday, expressing shock at how close the shooter was able to get to Trump.
Members of the Task Force on the Attempted Assassination of Donald J. Trump toured the Butler rally site where last month, 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks accessed a rooftop with a rifle and fired several shots from about 130 yards away from the former president, striking him in the ear. Crooks also killed 50-year-old Corey Comperatore and seriously injured two other Trump supporters in the stands.
“There’s not one person on this conference that’s identifying as just a Republican or a Democrat. We’re identifying as members of Congress on a task force with a task to restore the faith and trust and confidence the American people have to have in our system,” said…
