FBI director says gunman at Trump rally searched for info on JFK assassination

The gunman who attempted to assassinate former President Donald Trump conducted an online search a week before the shooting about the killing of former President John F. Kennedy, the FBI director said Wednesday.

Testifying before the House Judiciary Committee, Christopher Wray gave lawmakers an update on the investigation into the July 13 shooting targeting Trump at a rally in Butler, Pa.

That includes information pulled from a computer linked to the 20-year-old gunman, Thomas Crooks, that suggests he spent at least a week planning the attack.

“An analysis of a laptop that the investigation ties to the shooter reveals that on July 6 he did a Google search for ‘How far away was Oswald from Kennedy?’ ” Wray said. “That’s a search that obviously is significant in terms of his state of mind. That is the same day that it appears that he registered for the Butler rally.”

Lee Harvey Oswald is the gunman who shot former President John F. Kennedy in Dallas, Texas, in 1963.

In his testimony, which comes 11 days after the attempt on Trump’s life, Wray filled in some of the details about the gunman and the timeline ahead of the shooting.

The FBI has gained access to Crooks' digital devices, Wray said, but investigators still have not found anything that points to a motive or political ideology.

"Sometimes in these kinds of situations, you find a manifesto or something like that. It’s frustrating to us and I’m sure it’s frustrating to you and the American people that we haven’t found anything quite like that," Wray said.

"We’d love to have a roadmap and know exactly what he was thinking. We haven’t found that yet. That doesn’t mean we won’t. We're looking all over the place and we’re going to leave no stone unturned."

But Wray said