‘Careful planning’: Trump gunman researched attempted assassination of foreign leader, FBI says

The gunman who tried to assassinate former President Donald Trump had researched the attempted killing of the Slovakian prime in May, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) officials said on a call to reporters on Monday, the Washington Post reported.

Thomas Matthew Crooks, the shooter at Trump’s July rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, had researched mass shootings and the attempted assassination of Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico, according to a call with the FBI Monday, the Post reported.