President Donald Trump said Saturday that he had no warning about the gunman who shot him at a rally in Pennsylvania last weekend, even though investigators had been watching the suspect for hours before the attack.
“Nobody mentioned it,” Trump said. Jesse Watters said in the next episode. A primetime show hosted by a Fox News anchor.
“Nobody said that was a problem.”
“[They] “They could have said, ‘Let’s wait 15 minutes, 20 minutes, five minutes,’ but nobody said that… I think that was a mistake,” he added.
The shooter, Thomas Matthew Crooks, first aroused suspicion when he went through security carrying a rangefinder, a binoculars-like device used by hunters and marksmen to gauge the distance of long-range shots.
That was three hours before he fired seven shots at Trump, grazing the candidate’s ear and killing a spectator.
