Congressional Select Committee Investigating July and September Assassination Attempts President-elect Donald Trump He accused the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) of obstruction.
The Donald J. Trump Assassination Attempt Task Force on Monday issued a subpoena to ATF officials seeking testimony after they failed to respond to multiple requests for documents and information from members of Congress, according to a news release. .
“For weeks, the ATF had not produced the requested documents and no staff were available to meet with the task force. However, yesterday, the task force served subpoenas for depositions. Less than an hour later, the ATF released the first set of documents to the committee.''
Trump assassination attempt task force says ATF was 'unable to produce' requested supplies
Drone footage shows police investigating a shooting at a campaign rally for Republican presidential candidate and former President Donald Trump on July 14, 2024 in Butler, Pennsylvania. (Reuters/Carlos Osorio)
One of the subpoenas targets officers who participated in the ATF response to the July 13 mass shooting in Butler, Pennsylvania, in which President Trump was grazed in the right ear by a bullet. Two rally participants were also shot, and a third was killed in an assassination attempt. According to the task force, the second subpoena seeks testimony from the supervisor.
A letter announcing the subpoena from task force chair Rep. Mike Kelly (R-Pennsylvania) and executive member Rep. Jason Crow (D-Colo.) says the task force had previously It is shown that requests for documents and materials were sent on November 6th and November 6th. , including transcripts of interviews with ATF personnel.
“The task force specifically outlined 17 requests for document production, going so far as to indicate which were priority items. In addition, the task force specifically outlined 17 requests for document production, going so far as to indicate which were priority items. “We have identified two categories,” the letter states.
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Republican presidential candidate and former President Donald Trump is surrounded by U.S. Secret Service agents during a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, on July 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
“The ATF's October 22 response was inadequate and premature. Submitted to the task force five days after the deadline, it was less than four and a half pages long, with more than half of it being a summary. ATF produced a single document in response to the task force's request, which ATF has so far failed to respond to, but failed to make any staff available for interviews. ”
Of the production requirements, the task force asked ATF to:[a]All documents and materials related to ATF's critical incident response on July 13, 2024…including, but not limited to, ATF's discovery and investigation of an improvised explosive device found in the home of Matthew Crooks. (ii) efforts to locate, definitively locate, and investigate the vehicle of Thomas Matthew Crooks; ”
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Tuesday, April 26, 2011, at the headquarters of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) in Washington, DC. (Rich Clement/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Lawmakers and U.S. government agencies are still working to determine Mr. Crooks' motives for attempting to assassinate Mr. Trump with an AR-15 rifle at Mr. Butler's campaign rally.
The impostor missed the fatal shot, but it hit Trump in the ear. He also shot and killed rally attendee Corey Comperatore and seriously injured two other attendees, David Dutch and James Copenhaver.
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Rep. Mike Walz (R-Florida), a former Green Beret appointed to the 13-member House Bipartisan Task Force investigating the assassination attempt on President Trump, told reporters in August that fraudsters and said he had multiple crypto accounts on multiple platforms based in Belgium. Zealand and Germany. It remains unclear why the scammers had these accounts and what they used them for.
Investigators also said Ryan Routh, the man charged in a second assassination attempt in September, allegedly pointed a rifle at President Trump just outside the perimeter of Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach. We are also working on elucidating the reasons for this.
FOX News' Audrey Conklin and Tyler Olson contributed to this report.
