Trump assassination attempt task force subpoenas 2 ATF employees, alleging stonewalling

The legislature task unit investigating the July and September assassination attempts against President-elect Donald Trump has accused the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) of stonewalling.

The Task Force connected the Attempted Assassination of Donald J. Trump connected Monday issued subpoenas seeking grounds from ATF employees aft the bureau had not responded to lawmakers' aggregate requests for documents and information, according to a quality release. 

"For weeks, ATF had not produced immoderate requested documents oregon made immoderate unit disposable for interviews with the Task Force. However, little than 1 hr aft the Task Force served its subpoenas yesterday for depositions, ATF made its archetypal acceptable of documents disposable to the Task Force," the merchandise stated.

TRUMP ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT TASK FORCE SAYS ATF ‘FAILED TO PRODUCE’ REQUESTED MATERIALS

A drone presumption during the constabulary probe into gunfire astatine a run rally of Republican statesmanlike campaigner and erstwhile President Donald Trump successful Butler, Pennsylvania connected July 14, 2024.  (REUTERS/Carlos Osorio)

One of the subpoenas targets an cause who participated successful ATF's effect to the July 13 shooting successful Butler, Pennsylvania, successful which Trump was injured by a slug that grazed his close ear. Two rally goers were besides deed by gunfire and a 3rd was killed successful the assassination attempt. The 2nd subpoena is for grounds from a supervisory agent, according to the task force.

Letters announcing the subpoena from task unit Chairman Rep. Mike Kelly, R-Pa., and ranking subordinate Rep. Jason Crow, D-Colo., indicated the task unit antecedently sent requests for documents and materials connected Oct. 3 and Nov. 6, including for transcribed interviews from ATF personnel. 

"The Task Force specifically outlined seventeen requests for papers production, adjacent going truthful acold arsenic to enactment which were the precedence items. In addition, the Task Force identified 3 categories of requests for transcribed interviews with applicable ATF agents," the missive states. 

TRUMP ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT: SECRET SERVICE FAILURES MAY WARRANT DISCIPLINE, AGENCY REPORT SAYS

Republican statesmanlike campaigner erstwhile President Donald Trump is surrounded by U.S. Secret Service agents astatine a run rally successful Butler, Pennsylvania connected July 13, 2024.  (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

"ATF’s October 22, effect was insufficient and untimely. It was delivered to the Task Force 5 days past the deadline, and contained little than 4 and fractional pages, much than fractional of which consisted of summary narratives. To date, ATF has failed to nutrient a azygous papers responsive to the Task Force’s requests and has failed to marque immoderate of its unit disposable for interviews."

Among the requests for production, the task unit has asked 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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The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) office stands successful Washington, D.C., connected Tuesday, April 26, 2011. ( Rich Clement/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

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

Crooks missed a lethal changeable but did onslaught 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.

Fox News' Audrey Conklin and Tyler Olson contributed to this report.