The 20-year-old man who attempted to assassinate former President Donald Trump on July 13 in Butler, Pennsylvania, used encrypted messaging accounts on platforms in multiple foreign countries, according to Rep. Mike Waltz (R-FL).
Waltz, who is on the Congressional task force investigating the assassination attempt, told reporters in Chicago on Wednesday that it has not “learned that much” about Thomas Matthew Crooks’ encrypted messaging accounts, but he did reveal that they discovered the accounts were based on platforms in Belgium, Germany, and New Zealand, which the congressman described as strange, The New York Post reported. Encrypted messaging apps allow for text messages to be sent through an encrypted code that can only be deciphered by the recipient’s device.
“Why does a 19-year-old kid who is a health care aide need encrypted platforms not even based in the United…
