Former President Donald Trump spoke more about the assassination attempt and the security failures that led to the shooting. saying Fox News' Jesse Watters, in an interview that aired Monday night, said “it's crazy” that the Secret Service didn't have more manpower at his Pennsylvania campaign rally.
Trump survived the July 13 shooting after a bullet grazed his right ear, while three other people were hit by more gunfire, including firefighter Corey Comperatore, who died. The 20-year-old shooter accessed a roof less than 150 meters from the rally stage and was spotted by Secret Service snipers 20 minutes before he opened fire, according to law enforcement officials.
“Somebody should have made sure nobody was on the roof. That roof was a dead target on stage,” Trump told Watters. “And they said they didn't have the manpower to do it, which is crazy. One hundred and thirty yards is like sinking a one-foot putt. It's considered very close.”
“You have to answer: why couldn't I be off stage for five minutes while they did their work? Why couldn't he, you know, how does a situation happen where a roof that's clearly in view from where he was speaking … why wouldn't somebody have seen that?” the Republican presidential candidate added.
trump shattered the “Biden/Harris administration” about the assassination attempt in a post on Truth Social on Tuesday morning, writing, “The Biden/Harris administration did not adequately protect me and I was forced to take a bullet for democracy. IT WAS MY GREAT HONOR TO DO IT!”
Trump also told the Fox News host that Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle, who resigned Tuesday morning, came to see him after the assassination attempt. The former president said his meeting with Cheatle “went very well,” adding that he believes he was given “false information” about the slope of the roof where the shooter was perched. Cheatle said last week that the slope of the roof presented a safety risk.
“I noticed that she [Cheatle] he said, well, that's a slope[d] roof where you think like a barn where you have, this thing just had a little bit – a little bit of a rise, a few degrees. This was not, it was essentially a flat roof,” Trump said.
Cheatle was questioned during a congressional hearing on Monday and Republicans and Democrats urged her to resign after dodging numerous questions about how the would-be assassin was able to fire multiple shots at the former president.
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