WASHINGTON: The US House of Representatives will establish a bipartisan task force next week to investigate the attempt to assassinate former President Donald Trump at a weekend rally, House Speaker Mike Johnson said on Wednesday (Jul 17).
Members of the House and Senate are preparing for separate briefings with top officials from the US Secret Service and FBI, including FBI Director Christopher Wray. The shooting wounded Trump in the ear, killed a rally attendee, injured two others and has raised concerns about a failure by the US Secret Service.
“The reason we’re going to do it that way is because that is a more precise strike. It goes quicker, there’s not a lot of the procedural hurdles, and we’ll have subpoena authority for that task force as well,” the top Republican in Congress told Fox News.
“It’ll be comprised of Republicans and Democrats to get down to the bottom of this quickly, so the American people can get the answers that they deserve,” he said.
