CV NEWS FEED // Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced his administration is investigating the attempt on former President Donald Trump’s life that occurred on Sunday at the Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Florida.
“The State of Florida is conducting its own investigation into the second attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump,” DeSantis, a Catholic, wrote on X (formerly Twitter) Tuesday.
“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,” he continued, noting that he is “assigning this case to the Office of the Statewide Prosecutor.”
“The public deserves answers on how something like this could happen,” the governor added. “I have directed our state agencies to move expeditiously and to provide full transparency to the public.”
“There will be accountability in Florida,” he stressed. “The people of our state, and the entire country, deserve no less.”
While speaking to reporters on Tuesday, DeSantis implied that he does not trust the federal Department of Justice (DOJ) under the Biden-Harris administration to adequately investigate the suspected assassination attempt.
He pointed out that the DOJ is prosecuting Trump “in two different jurisdictions right now.” He was referring to the multiple controversial federal legal charges levied against Trump.
“There’s a lot of people that have a lot of issues with those prosecutions as you well know,” the governor said. “It is not like these are prosecutions that the American people have rallied behind.”
“So the question is,” he continued, “you have those prosecutions, do we honestly think … these agencies are the best to turn around and do this investigation on a potential assassin?”
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is an agency of the DOJ.
CatholicVote reported on Monday: “The incident, in which a man armed with an AK-47 rifle came within the vicinity of Trump, took place on Sunday afternoon at Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Florida.”
Just two months earlier, a gunman nearly assassinated Trump at the former president’s July 13 rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. The shooter’s bullet grazed Trump’s ear, drawing blood.
“Don’t you want to have investigative agencies that are just going to pursue this without any other agenda creeping in?” DeSantis asked, while addressing a reporter. “Without there being any cause for concern about any impartiality?”
He emphasized that his administration launching its own investigation of the would-be assassination “is the right thing to do for justice, and I think justice means holding the perpetrator accountable to the fullest extent of the law.”
“But justice also means making sure we get the unvarnished truth,” he added. “We haven’t gotten the unvarnished truth about Butler, Pennsylvania. That’s just a fact.”
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“So, I think people are used to, kind of the federal agencies taking control of things and then no answers happening,” DeSantis said. “And we don’t want that to happen in this case.”
