Well, it has been 18 days since Thomas Matthew Crooks attempted to assassinate former President Donald Trump, and still, the FBI has been unable to access Crooks’ encrypted communications.
Crooks, armed with a rifle, attempted to kill Donald Trump on July 13 at a rally in Pennsylvania, injuring Trump and killing Corey Comperatore, an attendee, and seriously injuring two other spectators, as previously reported by The Dallas Express.
Although the FBI claims to have successfully accessed some of Crooks’ email messages, some of his encrypted communications remain undecipherable.
We still do not have an answer to the burning question: What was the motive behind Crooks’ attempt to take out Trump?
As such, the world is using their creative imaginations to concoct conspiracy theories and plots.
But here’s an interesting twist: The Secret Service was alerted to an Iranian plot to assassinate the former president weeks before the attempt on Trump’s life, as per federal law enforcement officials cited by Fox News.
Read more about this possibility as reported by Fox News:
HARRISBURG, Pa. – The FBI investigation into the failed July 13 assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump has revived the argument over whether Big Tech firms should provide law enforcement with a backdoor method to break their own “unbreakable” encryption.
Weeks before the attempt on Trump’s life, the Secret Service received intelligence warning of an Iranian plot to kill the former president, according to federal law enforcement officials. But while experts are skeptical of any connection between the 20-year-old would-be assassin Thomas Matthew Crooks and Iran, they haven’t been able to access some of his communications 18 days later.
So it remains unclear who he was talking to, if anyone, and what topics would have been discussed.
“I think we’ve experienced a range of returns because some of the applications that he was using online were encrypted in nature,” FBI Deputy Director Paul Abbate said during a Senate hearing Tuesday under questioning from South Carolina Republican Lindsey Graham.
The FBI has gained access to some of his emails, he said, but some of his encrypted communications remained undecipherable Tuesday.
“If he were talking to some foreign power, and I don’t think any foreign power would hire this guy, by the way, so I’m not overly worried, but if this was some great plot by the Iranians, how do we solve this?” Graham asked.