Parents of Trump Shooter Continue With Major Legal Step as Feds Look Into What They Know: Report
The parents of Thomas Matthew Crooks have retained a prominent legal firm as the investigation into their son's July 13 assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump continues.
According to the Daily Mail, Matthew Crooks and his wife Mary are being represented by the Pittsburgh-based firm Quinn Logue.
This firm, established by some of Pittsburgh’s leading attorneys, claims to specialize in “criminal defense and civil suits, including wrongful death and personal injury.”
The Daily Mail, citing an unnamed family member, reported that while the FBI continues to investigate the shooting, the agency is still uncertain about how much the gunman’s parents knew about his plans.
“The FBI still very much has questions about how much they knew and how he [Thomas] slipped through the net,” the source allegedly stated.
Before the shooting, the parents had reached out to law enforcement, reporting that their son had not responded to their attempts to contact him.
Since the incident, Crooks’s parents have not made any public statements, and when approached by the media, they have requested privacy.
Some Republicans have expressed frustration over the slow pace of the investigation and the lack of clarity regarding the shooter’s motive, which resulted in the death of one rally attendee and injuries to Trump and two other spectators.
“It’s been more than a month since former President Trump’s near-assassination, yet the FBI has still not offered Congress or the public any real insights into Crooks’ motivation,” Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa said, as reported by the New York Post.
“The FBI ought to stop dragging its feet and provide a serious update on their investigation. Every day the FBI, as well as the Secret Service, keep the American people in the dark is another day wasted,” Grassley added.
Republican Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, a member of the Senate panel investigating the assassination attempt, was even more direct.
“All I can really tell you is the Secret Service, FBI are basically dragging their feet. They’re stonewalling us,” Johnson said.
The slow progress in the investigation has led Republican Rep. Mike Waltz of Florida to question the federal assertion that Crooks acted alone, according to the Daily Mail.
“I don’t understand, and I don’t have any answers yet to help me understand how the [Secret] Service and DHS came out so quickly and said – and I think the FBI as well, but I’ll have to check that – and said, he operated alone,” Waltz remarked.
“How do you know that mere days into your investigation?”
“You can’t tell us his motive, but you could tell us he operated alone? You can’t get into these encrypted overseas accounts, but you can tell us he acted alone?” he questioned, referring to accounts found on Crooks’s phone.
“So, I don’t buy that yet.”