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From the New York Post: The Florida golf course hole where Donald Trump was targeted in an assassination attempt over the weekend was the “soft underbelly” of the former president’s club, Gov. Ron DeSantis said Tuesday.
DeSantis announced that Florida authorities were also launching an investigation into the gunman and how he got with in 300 to 500 yards of Trump with an SKS assault rifle.
The Florida governor, who said he has previously golfed with Trump at the Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, said the Sunshine state probe will run parallel to the federal investigation into would-be assassin Ryan Wesley Routh.
“When I played with him there, there was a lot of security,” DeSantis said, adding that he had previously noticed the course’s sixth hole was “basically all on that fence line.”
Referring to the area where the gunman was spotted, DeSantis said, “Just me as a playing partner, and as governor, just thinking about it — I was like, that is the soft underbelly from a security perspective. You can’t not notice that when you’re on that golf course.”
In a social media post, DeSantis announced:
The State of Florida is conducting its own investigation into the second attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump. It is not in the best interests of our state and nation to have the same federal agencies seeking to prosecute Trump leading this investigation.
As I announced in Palm Beach County this morning, I am assigning this case to the Office of the Statewide Prosecutor. The suspect is believed to have violated state laws across multiple judicial circuits. The State of Florida has jurisdiction over the most serious, readily provable offense: attempted murder.
The public deserves answers on how something like this could happen. I have directed our state agencies to move expeditiously and to provide full transparency to the public.
There will be accountability in Florida. The people of our state, and the entire country, deserve no less.
The State of Florida is conducting its own investigation into the second attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump. It is not in the best interests of our state and nation to have the same federal agencies seeking to prosecute Trump leading this investigation.
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— Ron DeSantis (@GovRonDeSantis) September 17, 2024
DeSantis vowed that the results of the state investigation will be made public, and voiced concern that the federal government has not been forthright and transparent in their investigations.
Q: “What kind of information do you think a state investigation will reveal that a federal investigation may not?”
Here’s my answer: pic.twitter.com/qhosylasTL
— Ron DeSantis (@GovRonDeSantis) September 17, 2024
After the shocking assassination attempt against Trump on Sunday, DeSantis had written on social media that evening, “The State of Florida will be conducting its own investigation regarding the attempted assassination at Trump International Golf Club. The people deserve the truth about the would be assassin and how he was able to get within 500 yards of the former president and current GOP nominee.”
The State of Florida will be conducting its own investigation regarding the attempted assassination at Trump International Golf Club.
The people deserve the truth about the would be assassin and how he was able to get within 500 yards of the former president and current GOP…
— Ron DeSantis (@GovRonDeSantis) September 16, 2024
Below is Gov. DeSantis’ full press conference from Tuesday morning.
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