Trump assassination attempt task force says ATF 'failed to produce' requested materials

The legislature task unit investigating the July and September assassination attempts against erstwhile President Donald Trump says the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) has "failed to produce" definite materials the task unit requested arsenic portion of its ongoing probe into some incidents.

On Oct. 3, the task unit sent a missive to the ATF astir 17 "requests for accumulation arsenic good arsenic 3 categories of requests for prime transcribed interviews with applicable ATF agents who provided enactment oregon effect functions successful transportation with the" assassination attempts against Trump successful Butler, Pennsylvania, and successful West Palm Beach, Florida.

The ATF responded with a correspondence connected Oct. 22 that "is little than 4 and fractional pages successful length, 2 and a fractional of which dwell of summary narratives," the task unit said successful its missive published Wednesday. 

"To date, the ATF has failed to nutrient a azygous papers responsive to the Task Force’s requests. This nonaccomplishment is underscored by the information that the ATF failed to conscionable the Task Force’s October 10, 2024, deadline to statesman rolling accumulation of documents," the missive states.

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Drone footage shows lawmakers climbing connected apical of the AGR gathering Thomas Crooks fired from connected July 13. (Fox News Digital)

The task unit besides described the ATF's effect arsenic "woefully insufficient successful presumption of the Task Force’s requests for carnal documents and materials."

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"Both the Task Force and the American radical expect answers astir however 20-year-old Thomas Crooks planned and executed a astir palmy assassination, including important grounds recovered astatine the location of Thomas Crooks – a suspected improvised explosive instrumentality (IED), materials to marque IEDs arsenic good arsenic further explosives discovered successful Crooks’ vehicle," the missive reads.

"While ATF played nary relation successful coordinating the lawsuit itself, ATF provided meaningful assistance retrieving and investigating grounds connected to Crooks’ firearm and residence."

Republican statesmanlike candidate, erstwhile President Donald Trump raises his fist successful the aerial defiantly aft an attempted assassination near him with a wounded receptor successful Butler, Pennsylvania. (Jeff Swensen/Getty Images)

The task unit is asking the ATF to respond nary aboriginal than Nov. 13. The bureau did not instantly respond to a petition for remark from Fox News Digital.

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Among the 17 requests for production, the task unit is asking the ATF for "[a]ll documents and materials related to ATF’s captious incidental effect connected July 13, 2024 … including but not constricted to … ATF’s find and probe of the improvised explosive instrumentality recovered astatine the location of Matthew Crooks; and (ii) efforts to locate, the eventual determination of, and probe of Thomas Matthew Crooks’s vehicle."

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Members of Congress and U.S. authorities agencies are inactive moving to find Crooks' motive successful trying to assassinate Trump with an AR-15 astatine his Butler run rally.

Crooks yet succeeded successful striking Trump's ear. He besides fatally changeable rally attendee Corey Comperatore and critically wounded 2 different attendees, David Dutch and James Copenhaver. 

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Rep. Mike Waltz, R-Fla., a retired Green Beret appointed to the 13-member House bipartisan task unit investigating the attempted assassination of Trump, antecedently told reporters successful August that Crooks had aggregate encrypted accounts connected aggregate platforms based successful Belgium, New Zealand and Germany. It remains unclear wherefore Crooks had those accounts oregon what helium utilized them for.

Investigators are besides moving to find wherefore Ryan Routh, the fishy charged successful the 2nd assassination effort successful September, allegedly pointed a firearm toward Trump conscionable extracurricular the perimeter of Trump International Golf Club successful West Palm Beach.