Donald Trump, who tried to assassinate Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, was able to fly a drone in the air to investigate the area a few hours before the start of a campaign rally in Pennsylvania. The newspaper The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported this, citing law enforcement sources.
According to their information, the shooter, Thomas Matthew Crooks, fired more than once, and this was just one of the ways he prepared to shoot at the Butler Farm show where Trump was giving a speech. According to the publication, this is another proof of the “impressively large-scale mistakes of the security services”, which almost ended with the assassination of the former president.
According to WSJ sources, police spotted Crooks an hour before the event - he was walking around the area with a backpack and a rangefinder. According to officials, the criminal registered for the July 7 rally and visited the fairgrounds a few days later to survey the situation on the ground.
The newspaper indicated that several investigations were underway into the attempted assassination of the former head of the administration in Washington. The main question for law enforcement is how the shooter was able to gain access to the roof of a nearby facility, from where it was possible to easily observe Trump and open fire on him with an AR-15 rifle.