Trump assassination attempt: Shooters social media account showed antisemitic, anti-immigrant posts WSB-TV Channel 2 [Video]

The federal law enforcement officials said the gunman who opened fire on former President Donald Trump had a social media account where he posted antisemitic and anti-immigrant content.

FBI Deputy Director Paul Abbate told a joint hearing by two Senate committees on Tuesday that the account is believed to belong to Thomas Crooks, the 19-year-old shooter with the posts made in 2019 and 2020 when Crooks was a high school student, The Associated Press reported.

Abbate said the account had more than 700 comments which, “if ultimately attributable to the shooter, appear to reflect antisemitic and anti-immigration themes, to espouse political violence, and are described as extreme in nature,” CNN reported.

The second in command of the FBI appeared at the joint hearing of the Judiciary and Homeland Security committees, along with acting Secret Service Director Ronald Rowe.

Rowe said that the agency’s sniper team and the former president’s security detail did not know Crooks …