FBI director to testify before Congress on Trump shooting investigation

Washington — FBI Director Christopher Wray is the next law enforcement officer to report for attempted murder of former President Donald Trump.

Wray testified before the Republican-led House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday about the FBI’s investigation into the July 13 shooting at Trump’s rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.

In a letter to Wray last week, Republican Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio, the committee’s chairman, said there were “several unanswered questions about the failures that led to the attempted assassination of a president – the first in over 40 years – as well as the FBI’s ability to conduct a prompt, transparent and thorough investigation in the wake of recent scandals.”

The FBI is investigating the shooting as a possible act of domestic terrorism, but has not yet determined the shooter’s motive.

The security flaws that allowed the shooter to get to a nearby rooftop, from where he fired several shots at Trump, led to the resignation by Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle on Tuesday.

Cheatle testified before the House Oversight Committee a day earlier, promised accountability, calling the attack the Secret Service’s “most significant operational failure” in decades. She declined to answer questions about the shooter’s actions leading up to the attack, citing the ongoing FBI investigation.