On today's episode on Human Events Daily, guest hosted by John Solomon, Florida congressman Matt Gaetz revealed that a senior official from the Department of Homeland Security informed him about five known assassination teams targeting President Trump. The official disclosed this to Gaetz before the second assassination attempt last weekend.
"And I'll break a little news for you," Gaetz said to Solomon. "I had a senior official from the Department of Homeland Security in my office before the second assassination attempt saying that what he has assessed is that there are five known assassination teams in the United States, three inspired by other governments, two that are here that are known domestic assassination teams, and with that, this individual coming to me concerned that the force protection around President Trump, even prior to that second assassination attempt, was not sufficient for what it needed to be, and the coordination at that level, at the dignitary protection level, is like the bare minimum that we have to do to keep our presidents, our presidential candidates, safe while they're on the trail."
"So there are five assassination teams. Are they all targeting Trump. Is it other officials?" Solomon asked.
"No, I should have been clear about that. Five teams that we know are targeting Trump, and so that raises real questions about why certain teams were being pulled off of the Trump deal detail and put on, for example, the Jill Biden detail. Now, we don't want anything bad to happen to Jill Biden, but at the same time, the threat envelope for her was substantially different than the threat envelope around President Trump, and it would not have necessitated pulling assets away from the Trump detail for the Jill Biden detail, or the John Bolton detail, or any other details that were beefed up at the same time, the requests from the Trump detail and from the Trump campaign for more security were going unanswered," Gaetz clarified.
FBI Director Christopher Wray said on Wednesday that he has “dedicated the full force of the FBI” to investigating the two assassination attempts against former President Donald Trump.
Governor Ron DeSantis (R-FL) has launched a separate investigation into the Florida incident, stating that it "makes no sense" for the same agency prosecuting Trump to also investigate his potential assassination.
Earlier in the day, Gaetz appeared on Breitbart News Daily and told host Mike Slater "I don’t think we should be allowing people to set up for an extended period of time and wait to take their shot outside of his golf properties or his other properties,” referreing to second Trump assassination attempt suspect, Ryan Wesley Routh, who was known to officials.
“And the Customs and Border Patrol [CBP] thought his story was so suspicious that he was recruiting freedom fighters all over the world to go fight in Ukraine, and when they asked him how he was financing this, he said, ‘Oh, well, my wife is paying for it.’ And that seemed odd, and, so, the CBP officials referred Ryan Routh to the Department of Homeland Security’s investigations unit to determine what was going on, and they declined to even proceed with an investigation,” Gaetz said. “They just stopped and let the guy in the country. And we’ve got a lot of questions about that.”
