Florida’s limited government constitutional conservative Governor Ron DeSantis on Tuesday assigned Florida's Office of Statewide Prosecution to investigate the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump.
In the wake of the Secret Service’s epic failure to secure the perimeter of two Trump appearance locations, Gov. DeSantis argued that the state can pursue harsher penalties than federal prosecutors.
The suspect, Ryan Wesley Routh, allegedly violated laws across multiple judicial circuits, enabling the state to take charge of the case and seek an attempted murder charge, which could carry a life sentence, reported Florida’s Capitolist News.
DeSantis also contended that it "wouldn’t be appropriate" for the federal agencies prosecuting Trump to investigate the assassination attempt. Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody and local law enforcement leaders pledged full cooperation in the case, which took place near Trump’s West Palm Beach golf course.
“A couple of days before the first assassination attempt, President Biden himself said President Trump should be put in a bullseye,” Moody said on Fox News’ “America Reports.”
“He had to walk back those remarks after that assassination attempt and apologize for them. But only 39 days later, when he stood at the Democratic National Convention on television, he said the threat is still very much alive. And 25 days later, we saw another assassination attempt again.”
The AG says Democrats have “amped up this rhetoric,” charging members of Congress with saying Trump should be “eliminated” or “shot.”
And Florida Representative Laurel Lee expressed wonder at why Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has been mute on the subject.
“It is a stunning failure that we have not heard from Secretary Mayorkas. This is at the end of the day his responsibility. He has been silent. He has not come out and vocally called for an increase in resources (or said) that they will do everything conceivable to make sure that we keep (Trump) safe,” Congresswoman Lee said on Fox News’ “America Reports.”
Lee is one of three Floridians on the Bipartisan Task Force to Investigate the Attempted Assassination of Donald Trump, launched in the House in the wake of a previous attempt on the Republican nominee’s life during a July rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, noted A.G. Gancarski in an article for Florida Politics.
Special Agent in Charge of the Miami Field Office Jeffrey B. Veltri said the FBI is in the process of scouring Routh's digital footprint and interviewing his friends, family and former colleagues in hopes of learning what motivated him.
If it weren’t so deadly serious this would be hilarious because Veltri was forced by FBI Director Christopher Wray to scrub his own “digital footprint” of virulent anti-Trump posts.
And now he is investigating the “digital footprint” of a Trump-hater who acted upon that hatred and put in motion a plan to kill the former President.
We can help SAC Veltri cut to the chase on the motivation – just listen to the testimony of Routh's son Oran Routh told the UK’s DailyMail shortly after Sunday's shooting that his father hates Trump as "every reasonable person does."
As of now Routh only faces federal gun charges and the FBI has already said, without any investigation, that Routh acted alone. The Agency is also pleading “difficulties” in tracing the gun Routh planned to use to kill President Trump, so we feel justified in wondering whether the federal investigation will proceed with the necessary vigor.
Governor DeSantis and Rep. Lee are on to something regarding the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security – parent agency of the United States Secret Service.
The Miami Field Office and its Palm Beach agents have a long reputation of cover ups and failures, Jeffery Epstein and the Marjory Stoneman Douglas School killer being several of the more notable examples.
Now it has come out that in 2019, a concerned citizen warned the FBI that Ryan Routh, the man later accused of trying to assassinate Donald Trump, had a gun he wasn't legally allowed to own. The tip led nowhere, said Special Agent Jeffrey B. Veltri.
Gov. DeSantis said the state of Florida has jurisdiction “over the most serious, straightforward offense, which is attempted murder,” and we certainly agree that it is inappropriate to have “the same federal agencies that are seeking to prosecute Donald Trump leading this investigation,” so we urge the State of Florida to act with all dispatch in the investigation.
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