FBI Director Christopher Wray informed House lawmakers that the FBI had no prior information about the shooter involved in the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania on July 13.
During the hearing, Wray stated that the individual, identified as Thomas Matthew Crooks, was not in the FBI's database before the incident occurred. Responding to a question from Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., Wray confirmed that a comprehensive search was conducted across all FBI records, and Crooks was not found in any of them.