‘If you wanted to design an investigation to raise suspicions and drive conspiracy theories, this is exactly how you’d do that investigation’
By Joe Kovacs – WND
A U.S. senator probing the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump is blasting the top two federal agencies investigating the July 13 incident in Butler, Pennsylvania.
“We’re not getting squat … from the Secret Service or the FBI,” Sen. Ron Johnson, who sits on the bipartisan Senate committee investigating the incident, told Maria Bartiromo on “Sunday Morning Futures” on the Fox News Channel.
“The Secret Service, you know, FBI are basically dragging their feet, they’re stonewalling us. We’ve gotten some transcribed interviews, but the documents we request request are heavily redacted, they’re delivered, you know, the day of the interview so we really can’t use the documents to conduct the interviews effectively.”
“We’ve requested all their 302s, their transcriptions of their interviews with hundreds of individuals. They’re not turning those over as well. Maria, if you were, if you wanted to design an investigation to raise suspicions and drive conspiracy theories, this is exactly how you’d do that investigation. I mean, I was, it’s just jaw-dropping that they released the body [of the shooter] for cremation before anybody had seen toxicology reports. It’s driving suspicion and conspiracy theories.”
Bartiromo said she also couldn’t “understand why they would release the body before investigators had a chance to investigate that part of it as well,” and asked Johnson: “What’s the answer there there? Is there any accountability for that, to move so quickly? We’ve got more information on the shooting, on the attempted shooting of Taylor Swift’s concert than we do here for a former president.”
Johnson replied: “They are the law; they hold themselves above the law. They don’t really think that they’re responsible to be coming under scrutiny by Congress and the American public, and so this is how they behave. They’re the only ones that are going to have access to this information until they decide what information to give us and when to give it to us. They’re in total control.”