Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) said during an interview that federal authorities are not cooperating with the state’s independent investigation into the second assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump.
Speaking to Fox News’ Laura Ingraham, DeSantis said the government is “not being cooperative, and yes, I am concerned.”
He explained that Florida’s “investigators were rebuffed just going to the fence line outside of Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach.”
“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,” DeSantis said, adding, “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.”
The governor noted that the public has little confidence in the federal government’s investigation.
“So as soon as we got word of this on Sunday, I told our guys in state law enforcement, save all his social media because you know Facebook will delete it, the tech companies want to delete it,” he said. “Get his digital trail, store that, because we need to know, how did he end up in Florida to begin with? What is 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? How did that happen?”
DeSantis emphasized that there are still no answers about the Butler, Pennsylvania, assassination attempt.
“We have not gotten answers about things like that Las Vegas shooting from many years ago. So part of the investigation that our folks are doing is they are going to provide evidence they find of motive, evidence of his associations, and evidence of his beliefs. I think it is very important that the public to get the real story on that.”
DeSantis recently issued an executive order directing state authorities to investigate the second attempt on Trump’s life.
“I am assigning this case regarding the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump to the Office of the Statewide Prosecutor,” DeSantis said. “I have directed state agencies to move expeditiously and to provide full transparency to the public.”
