The Democratic chairman of the Senate Homeland Security Committee says his initial bipartisan report on the July assassination attempt on Donald Trump will be released soon. But a lot of questions remain as to how the Secret Service failed to prevent the shooter from taking a clear shot at the former president last July. And he has even more questions after another apparent assassination attempt on Mr. Trump last weekend.
“We need more information. Part of what we have found so far leads to other questions. It is these questions that we need answers to, and these questions require additional interviews, additional documents, for us to get the answers to these questions ” Michigan Senator Gary Peters told reporters at a breakfast hosted by The Christian Science Monitor.
“Anytime you have an assassination attempt on a president or any elected official, it’s a direct attack on our democracy,” he added.
Mr. Peters said the committee would also look into the circumstances surrounding the latest assassination attempt on Mr. Trump on Sunday at Mr. Trump’s golf course in south Florida.
“We will be informed about what happened in Florida. Clearly, what happened in Florida is very worrying. To have someone who can allegedly wait 12 hours and not be seen by the secret service … certainly raises a lot of questions,” he said.
Former President Trump blamed the rhetoric of Democrats who accused him of being a threat to democracy for inspiring violence against him, although it is still unclear what the motives were for the gunmen in the two separate assassination attempts.
Senator Peters conceded that inflammatory rhetoric could be dangerous. But he pointed the finger at Mr Trump, warning that the former president’s recent accusations, without evidence, that Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, were stealing neighbors’ pets and eating them had led to threats of violence. in that city.
“I’m just saying, be careful with the words you use to express your view, because words have power. We certainly saw that words have power with Donald Trump talking about eating cats and dogs. The amount of violence that was threatened in Ohio, in that small town, that they were forced to close the schools and shut them down. That shows you that the words you use and the stories you tell can be really powerful, and people have to be very careful about that.” he said.