CNN senior political analyst Mark Preston said Wednesday that Americans can rest assured that Washington is in such chaos that there is no deep state that can remove former President Donald Trump.
Trump survived an assassination attempt at a rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday by 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks, who has since died, but some Republicans have blamed Democrats for inciting the attack. CNN News Central host Kate Bolduin argued that when Republicans use the word “they,” they usually mean Democrats and the media, while Preston said Republicans may be alluding to a deep state, but that no such organization exists. (Related article: ‘I should have died’: Donald Trump reflects on ‘very surreal’ near-death experience)
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“So let’s go a little deeper into this rabbit hole that they’ve started digging about ‘them,’ because ‘them’ could be the deep state, that’s what they’re saying,” Preston said. “The idea that their enemy is faceless, or in some cases has a face, this idea that this is a cabal, this is a deep state that is trying to take down Donald Trump.”
“I would say to the networks, Washington is not organized enough to take out Donald Trump. There is no such thing, but it’s a way to try to take someone down politically,” he added.
US authorities reportedly knew about a suspected Iranian plot to kill Trump before Saturday’s assassination attempt, and the Secret Service had stepped up security for the former president.
CNN law enforcement correspondent Whitney Wilde pressed US Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle on whether she had stepped up “every element” of security for President Trump since learning of the plot.
“The increase that we gave was what we felt was appropriate for the former president and the particular event on that day,” Cheatle said. “We’ve increased the assets, the resources and the staff that we’ve provided to the former president since he was a candidate for president and then when he was a candidate for the nomination, that’s all I can say.”
Wilde said Cheatle’s response “sounds like a no.”
“I’m never saying no,” Cheatle said, “I’m just saying we continue to increase the resources that we’ve been providing.”
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