Former Republican New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani warned Monday that if law enforcement doesn’t thoroughly investigate the case, there could be a conspiracy about a man trying to assassinate former President Donald Trump.
The FBI has identified the gunman who tried to kill Trump at a rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday as 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks, who is now dead, but it has not released a motive or what security flaws may have made the attack possible. Giuliani said on “Piers Morgan Uncensored” that if investigators don’t definitively determine what happened, we may see “another Lee Harvey Oswald” – the man who assassinated former Democratic President John F. Kennedy and who most Americans are unfamiliar with. believe Despite the controversial findings of the investigation, he acted independently. (Related article: ‘I should have died’: Donald Trump reflects on ‘very surreal’ near-death experience)
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“If we don’t solve this definitively, we’ll have another Lee Harvey Oswald. There are two reasons why that building wasn’t covered, Piers, I can’t think of any rational explanation for it. One was the visibility to kill him,” Giuliani told host Piers Morgan. “But the second reason is something else that I’ve confirmed with former police officers, including people who did presidential security for Bernie Kerik and me. After all, we’ve done it 100 times.”
“The building had a great vantage point to monitor the crowd. I would have stationed five police officers there. Whatever was happening in the crowd, you could see it much better from above than in the crowd. I just can’t understand who the experts were that decided to vacate that building, so someone has to answer that question,” the former mayor added.
Crooks is accused of shooting Trump from the roof of a building less than 150 metres from where the former president was speaking. according to He told the Associated Press that the Secret Service shot and killed Crooks moments after he shot Trump.
House Speaker Mike Johnson said Sunday that Congress would launch a full investigation into the assassination attempt.
“Congress will conduct a full investigation into this tragedy and examine whether there were any security failures,” he said. Posts Sunday morning X.
Kentucky Republican Rep. James Comer, chairman of the House Oversight Committee, also called out Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle. letter It called on her Saturday to testify before the committee on July 22.
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