Former President Donald Trump on Monday bashed the Biden-Harris administration for refusing to seriously acknowledge the second attempt on his life earlier this month, calling for the State of Florida to take over the investigation if the DOJ and FBI can’t do their jobs.
Labeling the charges against would-be assassin Ryan Wesley Routh a “slap on the wrist,” Trump said the Democrat-controlled Justice Department was more concerned with their weaponized lawfare against him rather than trying to protect him.
“BREAKING: The Kamala Harris/Joe Biden Department of Justice and FBI are mishandling and downplaying the second assassination attempt on my life since July. The charges brought against the maniac assassin are a slap on the wrist,” Trump wrote, addressing Routh’s federal charge of possessing a firearm with a destroyed serial number as a convicted felon.
“It’s no wonder, since the DOJ and FBI have been coming after me nonstop with Weaponized Lawfare since I announced my first Historic Campaign for the Presidency,” he added.
The former president went on to list various ways the Deep State has worked to undermine his campaign, and advised the DOJ to turn over the investigation to Florida, whose Governor Ron DeSantis (R) has vowed to take up.
“If the DOJ and FBI cannot do their job honestly and without bias, and hold the aspiring assassin responsible to the full extent of the Law, Governor Ron DeSantis and the State of Florida have already agreed to take the lead on the investigation and prosecution. Florida charges would be much more serious than the ones the FBI has announced,” Trump stated.
During a speech announcing his executive order last Tuesday, DeSantis said his Attorney General’s Office of Statewide Prosecution could likely do a better job than the DOJ at holding Routh accountable, saying, “Do we honestly think this agency, these agencies, are the best to turn around and do this investigation on a potential assassin, that some of them may or may not want to be held accountable for if there was something they could have done better with security?”
Q: "What kind of information do you think a state investigation will reveal that a federal investigation may not?"
— Ron DeSantis (@GovRonDeSantis) September 17, 2024
Here's my answer: pic.twitter.com/qhosylasTL
Read Trump’s message below:
BREAKING: The Kamala Harris/Joe Biden Department of Justice and FBI are mishandling and downplaying the second assassination attempt on my life since July. The charges brought against the maniac assassin are a slap on the wrist. It’s no wonder, since the DOJ and FBI have been coming after me nonstop with Weaponized Lawfare since I announced my first Historic Campaign for the Presidency.
From Russia, Russia, Russia, Ukraine, Ukraine, Ukraine, Iran, Iran, Iran, Impeachment Hoax Number One, Impeachment Hoax Number Two, to the Lawless Documents Hoax brought after an Illegal and unConstitutional Raid of my home, on which I am suing the DOJ for their wrongful acts, to the January 6th Hoax in Washington, D.C., where the J6 Unselect Committee illegally deleted and destroyed all Documents, the Manhattan D.A.’s Zombie Case, the New York A.G. Scam, illegally Spying on my Campaign, to censoring the Hunter Biden Laptop from Hell, which was criminally led by the fake 51 Intelligence Officials who lied and claimed it was “Russian Interference and Disinformation,” while the Laptop was, in fact, Hunter Biden – Not Russia, and exposed Crooked Joe and his family for their decades of grift – and many lawless, Radical attacks against their Political Opponent, ME.
The DOJ and FBI have a Conflict of Interest since they have been obsessed with “Getting Trump” for so long. It’s very difficult to trust the Biden/Harris DOJ/FBI to investigate the assassination attempts, due to Election Interference and the FAKE CASES brought against me, including their control over local D.A.s and A.G.s. Shockingly, after the bullet went through my ear on that fateful day in Butler, Pennsylvania, the FBI Director went before Congress and falsely said that it may not have been a bullet, “It was just glass or shrapnel” – a lie condemned by even my worst enemies. What he said was disgraceful, especially since it was witnessed LIVE by millions of people, and he was forced to immediately retract.
If the DOJ and FBI cannot do their job honestly and without bias, and hold the aspiring assassin responsible to the full extent of the Law, Governor Ron DeSantis and the State of Florida have already agreed to take the lead on the investigation and prosecution. Florida charges would be much more serious than the ones the FBI has announced. The TRUTH would be followed, wherever it leads. OUR JUSTICE SYSTEM IS CORRUPT AND DISCREDITED, especially as it pertains to the 45th President of the United States, Donald J. Trump. LET FLORIDA HANDLE THE CASE!