Republican nominee Donald Trump further escalated his long-running bid to discredit federal law enforcement by accusing agencies on Monday of mishandling the investigation of last week\u2019s apparent assassination attempt and demanding Florida officials take over the case.<\/p>\n
\u201cOUR JUSTICE SYSTEM IS CORRUPT AND DISCREDITED, especially as it pertains to the 45th President of the United States, Donald J. Trump,\u201d Trump said in a campaign statement on Monday. \u201cLET FLORIDA HANDLE THE CASE!\u201d<\/p>\n
Earlier on Monday, prosecutors argued for the ongoing detention of the man accused of bringing a rifle to a golf course where Trump was playing on Sept. 15, presenting new evidence that the suspect allegedly left a note declaring his intent to assassinate the former president. The judge at the hearing agreed to keep the suspect, Ryan Routh, in custody.<\/p>\n
Prosecutors said at Monday\u2019s hearing that they intend to bring assassination attempt charges against Routh. In the meantime, he has been charged with two federal gun crimes while the investigation proceeds.<\/p>\n
Trump criticized the initial charges as \u201ca slap on the wrist\u201d and accused the Justice Department and FBI of \u201cdownplaying\u201d the threat to his life because they \u201chave been coming after me nonstop with Weaponized Lawfare,\u201d a term for alleged political tampering in prosecutions of Trump and his supporters.<\/p>\n
His statement sought to implicate President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, picking up on other recent remarks blaming them for failing to protect him. There is no evidence that Biden or Harris were involved in any security decisions leading up to the apparent assassination attempts, and Biden has since ordered the administration to provide the Secret Service with every available resource and asked Congress for more funding.<\/p>\n
The Harris campaign and a Justice Department spokeswoman declined to comment. The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n
Prosecutors, in the court filing on Monday, also alleged that Routh\u2019s note promised money he did not have to anyone who killed Trump if he failed. Rep. Jim Banks (R-Ind.), who is running for Senate, mischaracterized that allegation as prosecutors \u201cleaking\u201d a \u201cbounty,\u201d in a social media post promoted by Trump\u2019s co-campaign manager, Chris LaCivita.<\/p>\n
Trump\u2019s statement said Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis had \u201calready agreed\u201d to lead the prosecution. DeSantis\u2019s office and the Florida Department of Law Enforcement did not immediately respond to requests for comment.<\/p>\n
Trump\u2019s outburst followed weeks of public and private clashes with federal authorities tasked with protecting the former president and investigating threats to his campaign, from assassination attempts to hacking by Iranian spies.<\/p>\n
In the statement, Trump proceeded to recite a long list of legal problems that he attributed to his political opponents, using shorthand familiar to his fans, including:<\/p>\n
\u201cRussia, Russia, Russia,\u201d meaning special counsel Robert S. Mueller III\u2019s investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election<\/span> Trump said his distrust stemmed from the prosecutions against him brought by a federal special counsel and local district attorneys, calling them \u201cFAKE CASES\u201d and claiming without evidence that they were centrally controlled by \u201cthe Biden\/Harris DOJ\/FBI.\u201d His sentencing in New York is scheduled for Nov. 26. Special counsel Jack Smith is appealing the dismissal of the documents case and pressing forward with a separate prosecution for Trump\u2019s efforts to overturn the 2020 election results. A separate case accusing Trump of interfering in the election results in Georgia, brought by Fulton County District Attorney Fani T. Willis, was also delayed until after the Nov. 5 election.<\/p>\n \u201cThe DOJ and FBI have a Conflict of Interest since they have been obsessed with \u2018Getting Trump\u2019 for so long,\u201d he said on Monday. He also complained that FBI Director Christopher A. Wray, who Trump appointed, testified to Congress in July that he was not certain what struck Trump\u2019s ear at the July 13 rally in Butler, Pa. The FBI quickly clarified that Trump was injured by a bullet or a fragment.<\/p>\n Before the Butler shooting, the Secret Service repeatedly denied requests from the Trump campaign for more security measures at campaign events, four people familiar with the matter said. An internal review released Friday identified multiple mistakes by the Secret Service, including failing to detect a drone that the shooter flew over the rally in advance, failing to notify Trump\u2019s detail that police were searching for a suspicious person, and never directing snipers to cover the roof from which the gunman fired.<\/p>\n Trump\u2019s mistrust of federal agencies has complicated the investigation into Iran\u2019s cyberattack on his campaign. When a technology firm first discovered the breach, campaign aides huddled to discuss what they should do. After hours of discussions in July, they decided they trusted the software experts to handle the matter and did not call the FBI. Co-campaign manager Susie Wiles, whose email account was targeted, was among those who questioned whether they could trust the Justice Department. The fears centered on giving federal officials access to campaign email servers and whether they would leak information out publicly.<\/p>\n Trump has been generally satisfied with how the FBI has handled the hacking case so far, but there has not been much contact, according to advisers. Some top campaign officials have also expressed frustration privately that they don\u2019t know more about Iran or U.S. government intelligence on what the country is doing.<\/p>\n The campaign\u2019s transition is not expected to use space provided by the General Services Administration, partially because they do not trust the federal government, people familiar with the matter say.<\/p>\n And in August, when the U.S. Army asked the campaign not to bring cameras into Arlington National Cemetery\u2019s most sacred ground \u2014 Trump aides ignored the order and then criticized the military official who tried to block the cameras, alleging with no evidence that she had suffered from a mental health episode.<\/p>\n The Trump team has also been unimpressed with Ronald L. Rowe Jr., the acting director of the Secret Service, highlighting both his briefings and the fact that he wanted a photographer to follow him on Trump\u2019s golf course after last week\u2019s apparent assassination attempt. The briefings, Trump\u2019s team says, have been generally useless, and they believe the Secret Service still needs to do more to protect Trump. The former president has said he wants more people on his detail, according to a campaign official.<\/p>\n The Secret Service did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n Trump and allies have made clear that in a second term he would assert more direct control over federal law enforcement, with Trump going so far as to name individual critics whom he wants to prosecute.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Republican nominee Donald Trump further escalated his long-running bid to discredit federal law enforcement by accusing agencies on Monday of mishandling the investigation of last week\u2019s apparent assassination attempt and demanding Florida officials take over the case. \u201cOUR JUSTICE SYSTEM IS CORRUPT AND DISCREDITED, especially as it pertains to the 45th President of the United […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":10012,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10011\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n\u201cImpeachment Hoax Number One,\u201d again meaning the 2019 impeachment, for which the Senate acquitted him; and \u201cImpeachment Hoax Number Two,\u201d meaning his 2021 impeachment for inciting the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, again resulting in acquittal<\/span>
\n\u201cthe Lawless Documents Hoax,\u201d meaning the court-authorized search of his Mar-a-Lago estate as part of a federal prosecution for mishandling classified documents, which a Trump-appointed judge dismissed in July<\/span>
\n\u201cthe January 6th Hoax\u201d and \u201cthe J6 Unselect Committee,\u201d meaning the House investigation into the attack on the Capitol<\/span>
\n\u201cthe Manhattan D.A.\u2019s Zombie Case,\u201d meaning his conviction in May on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in a 2016 hush money scheme<\/span>
\n\u201cthe New York A.G. Scam,\u201d meaning New York Attorney General Letitia James\u2019s lawsuit accusing Trump\u2019s businesses of fraud, resulting in a $450 million judgment in February<\/span><\/p>\n