Speaking On The 2nd Assassination Attempt, DeSantis Reminds Us Why He's One Of Our Best Governors

Posted • September 17, 2024: Not long after the second assassination attempt on Trump, Governor DeSantis announced he was going to do his part to keep the investigation honest: Ron DeSantis @GovRonDeSantis: “The State of Florida will be conducting its own investigation regarding the attempted assassination at Trump International Golf Club. The people deserve the truth about the would be assassin and how he was able to get within 500 yards of the former president and current GOP nominee.” -- But where he hit it out of the park, was in this video, when he made a very important point: DeSantis says that the same agencies prosecuting Trump investigating the assassination attempt "may not be the best thing," vows a "credible" truth after state-run investigation.

The term ‘conflict of interest’ is one of the most misused terms in modern political life, but it really applies here. The same Biden-Harris administration that is trying to throw Trump in prison is also trying to investigate the man who tried to kill him—not to mention our belief that the Biden-Harris administration deliberately shorted Trump’s security hoping an assassin would take him out. But the problem goes deeper than that for Trump. They are asking for Trump to talk to the same law enforcement agency that is trying to throw him in prison. And while the documents case has been dismissed in Florida, it seems likely that the Biden-Harris administration can file the charges again, if Jack Smith can’t revive it on appeal.

That would basically require Trump to talk to the ‘police’ (in this case, the FBI) and many lawyers would tell him absolutely never to do that. For instance, here’s a very popular presentation arguing that lawyers should always tell their clients never to talk to the police and it is genuinely worth listening to in its entirety, because it discusses all the ways talking to the police can go badly even for innocent people. (…)

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https://twitchy.com/aaronwalker/2024/09/16/watch-ron-desantis-makes-an-important-point-about-trumps-second-assassination-attempt-n2401043