A.G. Gancarski
The feds aren’t working with Florida investigators.
That’s the claim Ron DeSantis is making as frustration builds from the Governor over Joe Biden’s Secret Service not facilitating the state investigation of the latest attempt on Donald Trump’s life.
“They’re not being cooperative,” the Governor said on Thursday’s “Ingraham Angle.”
DeSantis said he was “concerned,” as state “investigators were rebuffed just going to the fence line outside of Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach.”
“And so I think they’ve taken the position, you know, they don’t want the state of Florida to be involved in this,” he added.
The Florida Department of Law Enforcement and the Highway Patrol are both involved in the state probe, and Attorney General Ashley Moody’s Office of the Statewide Prosecutor plays a key role as well.
DeSantis told Ingraham, “There were multiple violations of Florida law across multiple jurisdictions,” justifying the state probe.
“We think in at least three judicial circuits, this guy Ryan Routh committed potential violations of Florida law. So we have a duty to investigate this. We have a duty to bring the appropriate charges and we also have a duty to inform the public about how this happened,” DeSantis said.
State officials were less than complimentary to the feds this week when announcing the next steps.
DeSantis said Trump approved of “Florida … trying to take the lead” in the probe and that it wasn’t in the “best interest of the country” for the FBI and Justice Department to be probing the attempt on Trump’s life, given they are prosecuting him in a federal case involving allegedly mishandled classified documents.
Moody added that the state probe doesn’t constitute a “turf war,” then alleged an irony in federal officials seeking justice in this case, given how “awkward” it is to have “the same agencies and prosecutors going after the would-be assassin” even as they seek to “put the victim away for life.”
“We’re protecting one of our own,” the Plant City Republican said.
On Thursday, DeSantis struck a different tone, saying he hadn’t “disputed” the feds’ “right to investigate.”
“Let us do this,” he said. “So, hopefully, that tune will change. But I can tell you right now, we have not gotten a lot of receptive response.”
20 comments
KathrynA
September 19, 2024 at 9:00 pm
Shootings of presidents and presidential candidates are always handled by federal law enforcement and DeSantis knew this.
Dont Say FLA
September 20, 2024 at 3:03 pm
It sounds an awful lot like Rhonda knows this one was fake and Donald needs him to find 11,780 votes which is one more than we have whoops I mean Donald needs him to cover it up.
Impeach DeSantis
September 19, 2024 at 10:10 pm
Keep your probe at home, nobody at the federal level wants it! That was made clear a few months ago when you lost your hiney in the presidential bid!
MH/Duuuval
September 19, 2024 at 10:52 pm
The MAGA marks are mystified by Dee’s rhetoric, which is why he can’t stifle: Like DJT, he’s basically an entertainer/hawker.
PeterH
September 20, 2024 at 12:07 am
Can Republicans do anything other than whine?
Karthik
September 20, 2024 at 9:45 am
Nope.
My Take
September 20, 2024 at 4:09 am
Who would want DeScamus underfoot on something important?
Ocean Joe
September 20, 2024 at 6:07 am
Thoughts and prayers for Trump’s golf game getting interrupted, and now…let people with brains deal with the situation, and let the Florida Election Police get back to harrassing amendment petitioner signers.
"E"
September 20, 2024 at 6:37 am
Good Morn ‘Ting Dook 4 Brains Leftys,
This push back from the feds would deter any “Ordinary Run of the Mill Republican Govornor” in any of the other 49 States.
HOWEVER:
Ron is Not That “Ordinary Run of the Mill Republican Govornor”
BTW AMERICA:
America’s Govornor WILL be the 2028 – 2036 POTUS….and of course The Beautiful Casey will be our Beloved First Lady.
“E”
Vote blue
September 20, 2024 at 7:39 am
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"E"
September 20, 2024 at 8:10 am
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AND
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Thank you Vote blue,
“E”
rick whitaker
September 20, 2024 at 11:54 am
EARL PITTS, you are talking to all your aka’s is that fun? you are a nutcase for sure, crazy, hell yeah. tell us about the dishwasher boy at your restaurant. you perv.
The Sage "E"
September 20, 2024 at 6:57 pm
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“E”
Michael K
September 20, 2024 at 7:14 am
Poor Ron. Desperately trying to be relevant with more overreach and bullying following his humiliating presidential failure. Perhaps offering cooperation would be a more productive approach?
Linwood Wright
September 20, 2024 at 9:52 am
Look Ron, to quote JD Vance, assassination attempts on Trump are just a “fact of life” now. Just ignore them like y’all do with school shootings.
MH/Duuuval
September 20, 2024 at 12:05 pm
Thoughts and prayers.
Blaise Trettis
September 20, 2024 at 12:48 pm
The incompetent media has not asked the relevant questions. First and foremost, did federal law enforcement, like the FBI, attempt to interrogate Routh? If the FBI did, then did Routh invoke his Miranda rights and not talk? This most basic question has not been asked by the media and the FBI isn’t giving any information. If the FBI didn’t even attempt to interrogate Routh, then the federal government doesn’t want anyone to know what the facts of the case are – and the FBI doesn’t want to know what the facts of the case are either.
Second, how and when did Routh go from the custody of the sheriff of Martin County, where Routh was arrested, to the custody of federal law enforcement? Normal arrest procedure would be for Routh to have been booked at the Martin County Jail, then appear before a judge for first appearance in the Martin County jail, and then be transported to Palm Beach County, where the crime occurred. Instead, federal law enforcement almost immediately takes custody of Routh and takes him to the federal government’s custody and control at Federal Detention Center Miami. How did that happen? This quick transport to Federal Detention Center Miami denied Palm Beach County Sheriff Ric Bradshaw the opportunity, ability, to interrogate Routh for the 24 hours that were available before Routh’s first appearance in state court that would have been held in Martin County. Did Democrat Palm Beach County State Attorney Dave Aronberg immediately tell the Martin County and Palm Beach County Sheriffs that he was not going to prosecute Routh and inform the sheriffs to surrender the custody of Routh to federal law enforcement? Even if State Attorney Aronberg told the sheriffs this, why did they agree to surrender Routh to federal law enforcement? The effect of State Attorney Aronberg’s surrender of Routh to federal law enforcement is that Routh is now in the custody of the federal government, which allows the FBI to, like always, refuse to divulge any information about Routh, allows the FBI to fail to disclose anything about the investigation, and deny access to Routh for questioning. What FDLE should do is film themselves going to Federal Detention Center Miami to interrogate Routh and record the federal government denying FDLE access to do that.
Attorney General Ashlely Moody is presumably correct saying that there is no “turf war” between state and federal law enforcement in this case. Or at least there shouldn’t be. Routh can be prosecuted at the same time by both the state and the federal government. If federal law enforcement hinders FDLE’s investigation in any way, then the logical inference is that the FBI and U.S. Dept. of Justice are interfering, obstructing, because they want as little information as possible to be disclosed with less than two months before the presidential election. Early indications are that the FBI and U.S. Justice Dept. don’t want their monopolization of information in the case to be threatened by the lawful investigation of the Florida Department of Law Enforcement and the Florida Attorney General’s Office of Statewide Prosecutor.
Jojo
September 20, 2024 at 2:09 pm
Oh please Ron… the feds realize why you’re down there and it’s not for any fairness or transparency
Dont Say FLA
September 20, 2024 at 2:50 pm
Rhonda already sent Assley to DC once. Fool them twice? Nope.
Elmo
September 20, 2024 at 9:19 pm
Psycho attention grabbing Ron. Sit down little boy. Know your place.