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This week, Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI) described the difficulty he and the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee (HSGAC) are having getting answers from the Department of Homeland Security and the Secret Service; “There’s just basic information we don’t have,” Johnson said.
Johnson and the HSGAC are still waiting on details from the first assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump.
“Things like the autopsy report, you know, the House has it under subpoena. We don’t have it,” he told reporters.
“[The] toxicology report; we don’t have any of the trajectory reports. So, where’d the bullets go? We don’t even know how they handled the crime scene,” said Johnson, ranking member of the HSGAC Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations (PSI).
“We haven’t been able to interview the sniper who took out [Thomas] Crooks,” Johnson said.
From The New York Post:
Crooks is the would-be assassin that, during the July 13 rally in Pennsylvania, opened fire, grazing the former president’s ear, killing a rally attendee and critically injuring two others.
According to the Republican, the sniper who shot Crooks was the first person he wanted to interview.
Further, he said they hadn’t been provided any FD-302 forms by the FBI, which are used to investigate through results of interviews.
Johnson pointed out that FBI Deputy Director Paul Abbate told him during a hearing in July that the bureau would provide the forms as soon as they could.
“I haven’t gotten one,” he said.
“They’ve done 1,000 interviews. We’ve done 12,” the senator said.
Johnson also described the heavily redacted documents being passed on to his committee.
“I’ve never seen this,” he said.
More details over at The New York Post:
GOP senator details ‘lack of cooperation’ by Secret Service on Trump shooting investigation: ‘I’ve never seen this’ https://t.co/nQRlc1h6DN pic.twitter.com/JQWYifmW8l
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