Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, in an appearance with Fox News host Laura Ingraham on Thursday, provided a troubling update to a state investigation into the second attempt on former President Donald Trump’s life, a plot that the Secret Service disrupted. The incident occurred last Sunday when Trump was playing a round of golf at his international country club in West Palm Beach when Secret Service agents spotted a rifle barrel protruding out of a line of shrubs, with suspect Ryan Routh allegedly lying in wait for him near the 6th hole.
In his interview, DeSantis revealed that law enforcement agencies of the Biden-Harris administration were refusing to cooperate with Florida investigators and were actually preventing state officials from doing their jobs. “I want to turn to another topic because we were relieved to hear that you are doing your own independent investigation in Florida concerning the second assassination attempt on President Trump,” Ingraham noted during the segment. “My question to you tonight is, are the Feds being cooperative with your investigation? Are you concerned that you’re not getting the information you need?”
“The answer is, no, they’re not being cooperative. Yes, I am concerned. I mean, for example, we were rebuffed. Our investigators were rebuffed just going to the fence line outside of Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach,” DeSantis said. “And so, I think they’ve taken the position they don’t want the state of Florida to be involved in this. But here’s the thing: there were multiple violations of Florida law across multiple jurisdictions. We think at least three judicial circuits. This guy, Ryan Routh, committed potential violations of Florida law,” he continued.
“So, we have a duty to investigate this. We have a duty to bring the appropriate charges, and we also have a duty to inform the public about how this happened, so I don’t anticipate they’re being cooperative,” the governor added. “I think that they’ve just taken that position, and I think that that’s unfortunate because even though I’ve been very clear, the state of Florida is going to do an investigation.
“You know, I’ve not disputed their right to also investigate. It’s the federal government he was in their protective custody as a presidential candidate. But let us do this. So, hopefully, that tune will change. But I can tell you right now, Laura, we have not gotten a lot of receptive, receptive response” from the Biden-Harris administration, DeSantis said, going on to question how Routh — whose place of residence is listed as Hawaii and who appears to be financially strapped — made it all the way to Florida to lay in wait for Trump.
“How did he end up in Florida to begin with? What does this pathway this guy has taken to end up in those bushes trying to assassinate the former President of the United States and current Republican nominee?” DeSantis said. “How did that happen? And we have not gotten answers about Butler” Pennsylvania, the site of the first assassination attempt against Trump in July, the governor continued. “We haven’t gotten answers about things like the Las Vegas shooting from many years ago.
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