FBI investigating Trump rally attack as attempted assassination and act of domestic terror, but hasn

(15 Jul 2024)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Butler, Pennsylvania – 13 July 2024
1. STILL, a campaign rally site for Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump is empty and littered with debris

FBI
Washington – 14 June 2024
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Executive Assistant Director Robert Wells, Counterterrorism Division at FBI Headquarters:
“We are investigating this as an assassination attempt, but also looking at that, a potential domestic terrorism act. So our counterterrorism division and our criminal divisions are working jointly together to determine the motive in this case.”

ASSOCIATED PRESS
Washington – 27 June 2024
3. STILL, Attorney General Merrick Garland speaks during a news conference at the Department of Justice headquarters

FBI
Washington – 14 June 2024
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Merrick Garland, Attorney General:
“I want to reiterate that the violence that we saw yesterday is an attack on our democracy itself. The Justice Department has no tolerance for such violence. And as Americans, we must have no tolerance for it. This must stop."

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ARCHIVE: Washington – 24 September 2020
5. STILL, FBI Director Christopher Wray, testifies during a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing on "Threats to the Homeland"

FBI
Washington – 14 June 2024
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Christopher Wray, Director, FBI:
“The American people can rest assured that we will leave no stone unturned as we work to get to the bottom of what happened yesterday.”
STORYLINE:
FBI investigating Trump rally attack as attempted assassination and act of domestic terror, but hasn’t identified motive.

Attorney General Merrick Garland told reporters that the Justice Department has “no tolerance for such violence and as Americans we must have no tolerance for it.”

FBI Director Christopher Wray says authorities “will leave no stone unturned” in their investigation of the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump.

In a call with reporters Sunday, Wray called the shooting an “attack on democracy and our democratic process.”

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