It’s been over a month since the attempted assassination of President Donald Trump by shooter Thomas Matthew Crooks at a Pennsylvania rally.
In that time, multiple investigations have been opened.
Given the gravity of the situation and the fact that people want and deserve answers, fingers are still being pointed.
According to Fox News, Rep. Clay Higgins (R-LA) apparently triggered the FBI after he accused the agency of giving the suspect’s body back to the family just over a week after the shooting.
Higgins is a member of a bipartisan investigation task force looking into how it was the Crooks was nearly able to kill President Trump at the Butler rally on July 13.
In a preliminary finding, Higgins accused the FBI of mishandling the investigation and said the agency handed the shooter’s body back to his family just ten days after the assassination attempt.
However, the FBI has vehemently denied the accusations.
Fox News noted:
The agency says it refutes allegations by Rep. Clay Higgins, R-La., who says that when he requested to view Crooks’ body on Aug. 5, nobody on the ground in Butler knew it had been handed back to the suspect’s family on July 23.
Higgins said the revelation “caused quite a stir and revealed a disturbing fact.”
Fox continued:
Higgins says the releasing of the body, and other claims of bad practice leveled at the FBI, amounts to an “obstruction to any following investigative effort.”
In his report to the chairperson of the task force, Higgins wrote:
“My effort to examine Crooks’s body on Monday, August 5, caused quite a stir and revealed a disturbing fact . . . the FBI released the body for cremation ten days after J13 [July 13].”
“Nobody knew this until Monday, August 5, including the County Coroner, law enforcement, Sheriff, etc,” Higgins added.
“Yes, Butler County Coroner technically had legal authority over the body, but I spoke with the Coroner, and he would have never released Crooks’ body to the family for cremation or burial without specific permission from the FBI.”
