Two ATF employees are subpoenaed by the Trump assassination attempt task force for allegedly obstructing the investigation.
Investigators allege that the ATF is obstructing their inquiries regarding the attempts to assassinate President-elect Trump.
The ATF is being accused of obstructing the investigation into the assassination attempts against President-elect Trump by the congressional task force.
On Monday, the Task Force on the Attempted Assassination of Donald J. Trump issued subpoenas to ATF employees for testimony, as the bureau had not responded to lawmakers' repeated requests for documents and information, according to a news release.
Despite not providing any requested documents or personnel for interviews with the Task Force for weeks, ATF quickly made its first set of documents available to the Task Force less than an hour after the Task Force served subpoenas for depositions yesterday.
An agent involved in the ATF's response to the July 13 shooting in Butler, Pennsylvania, where Trump was injured by a bullet that grazed his right ear, is the target of one of the subpoenas. Additionally, a supervisory agent is being asked to testify, as per the task force.
The task force, led by Chairman Rep. Mike Kelly, R-Pa., and ranking member Rep. Jason Crow, D-Colo., has issued a subpoena for documents and materials related to their investigation, including transcribed interviews from ATF personnel.
The Task Force identified seventeen requests for document production, with priority items noted, and three categories of requests for transcribed interviews with relevant ATF agents, as stated in the letter.
"The ATF's October 22 response was inadequate and overdue. It was delivered five days after the deadline and consisted of less than four and a half pages, with more than half of the content being summary narratives. To date, the ATF has not provided any documents in response to the Task Force's requests and has not made any of its personnel available for interviews."
The task force has requested the ATF to provide all documents and materials related to the ATF's critical incident response on July 13, 2024, including but not limited to, the discovery and investigation of the improvised explosive device found at the home of Matthew Crooks, as well as efforts to locate, the ultimate location of, and investigation of Thomas Matthew Crooks's vehicle.
The motive of Crooks for attempting to assassinate Trump with an AR-15 rifle at his Butler campaign rally is still being determined by members of Congress and U.S. government agencies.
Trump's ear was struck by a crook who missed a lethal shot but did fatally shoot rally attendee Corey Comperatore and critically wounded two other attendees, David Dutch and James Copenhaver.
In August, Rep. Mike Waltz, R-Fla., a member of the 13-person bipartisan task force investigating the attempted assassination of Trump, stated to reporters that Crooks had multiple encrypted accounts on various platforms located in Belgium, New Zealand, and Germany. However, it is still unclear why Crooks had those accounts or what he used them for.
The second assassination attempt suspect, Ryan Routh, is being investigated to determine why he pointed a rifle at Trump near Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach.
Planet Chronicle' Audrey Conklin and Tyler Olson contributed to this report.
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