Paul Abbate, the deputy director of the FBI, told senators on Tuesday that Thomas Crooks, the gunman who wounded former President Donald Trump in an apparent assassination attempt, is believed to have had a social media account where he expressed antisemitic views.

The social media account, active in 2019 and 2020, included more than 700 posts that “appear to reflect antisemitic and anti-immigration themes, to espouse political violence and are described as extreme in nature,” Abbate said at a joint hearing of the Senate Judiciary and Homeland Security committees on the assassination attempt.

The FBI deputy director said that the account couldn’t yet be conclusively linked to Crooks, but said he wanted to share the information with lawmakers “given the general absence of other information to date from social media and other sources of information that reflect on the shooter’s potential motive and mindset.”

He said that the FBI will release additional information about the account if the agency verifies it belonged to Crooks.

Abbate said he’s also been made aware of an account allegedly linked to Crooks on Gab, an alternative social media platform popular primarily with the far right, antisemites and white supremacists. 

That account, active subsequent to the other social media page he referenced, allegedly included pro-immigration and pro-COVID lockdown views. He said that the FBI is still working to verify that the account belonged to Crooks.

Abbate said that the investigation has not yet identified any motive for the shooting or any accomplices.

The acting director of the Secret Service said he couldn’t comment publicly on reports that the Iranian government was, separately, targeting Trump for assassination.