The explicit search history of the man who shot Donald Trump has been revealed by the FBI.
On July 13th, the Republican candidate and former President narrowly avoided death when he was shot at during a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.
Trump was on stage speaking at the event when Thomas Matthew Crooks opened fire from from a rooftop 150 meters away.
A bullet grazed the 78-year-old's right ear but he was not seriously injured in the attempted assassination.
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Tragically, two others were critically injured and one man, firefighter Corey Comperatore, passed away due to his injuries.
Crooks also died after being shot by a Secret Service agent.
The FBI has since been conducting an investigation into the assailant and have analysed a laptop linked to the 20-year-old, discovering a rather disturbing search history in the days leading up to the shooting.
Yesterday (July 24), FBI director Christopher Wray said that Crook's had searched the web for "How far away was Oswald from Kennedy?" just one week before the rally shooting, reports the New York Times.
"That’s a search that’s obviously significant in terms of his state of mind," Wray said during a hearing before the House Judiciary Committee. "That is the same day that it appears that he registered for the Butler rally."
The FBI also broke into the shooter’s phone last week, but his motive remains unclear. "A lot of the usual repositories of information have not yielded anything notable in terms of motive or ideology," Wray said.
A source has also revealed that Crooks' final online search was for p*rnography, although they told the Daily Beast that this is 'not unusual.'
The unnamed source noted that the Sandy Hook shooter, Adam Lanza, had images of child abuse on his device and suspected al Qaeda members of have also been found to have disturbing pornography searches.
According to The Post, other findings included searches for Oxford High School shooter, Ethan Crumbley, as well as other mass shooters.
Crooks had also looked up both Trump and president Joe Biden.
Since the shooting, a disturbing message on the gaming platform Steam has also been revealed.
According to Fox News, US senators were briefed at a meeting on July 17 where all-members were asked to be present. It was there where it emerged that the killer wrote an eerie message before the terrifying incident.
On the platform, he is alleged to have written:
Crooks is alleged to have wrote: "July 13 will be my premiere, watch as it unfolds."