Four unan­swered ques­tions about Trump assas­si­na­tion attempt

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Four unanswered questions about Trump assassination attempt

Days after a gun­man shot at for­mer Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump dur­ing a ral­ly in But­ler, Penn­syl­va­nia, ques­tions per­sist about how the shock­ing inci­dent could have occurred.
Author­i­ties have not explained how or why Thomas Matthew Crooks, the 20-year-old armed sus­pect, gained a clear line of sight of Trump from a rooftop about 400 feet away from the for­mer pres­i­dent.
Scruti­ny of the Secret Ser­vice has inten­si­fied in the after­math of the event, and signs of fin­ger-point­ing between the agency and local police have cropped up in media reports.
The FBI, whose Pitts­burgh Field Office is lead­ing the inves­ti­ga­tion of the shoot­ing, said Mon­day that its inquiry was in an “ear­ly stage” but that it had inter­viewed near­ly 100 wit­ness­es and received hun­dreds of tips.
Mean­while, Pres­i­dent Joe Biden has …