Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed an executive order on Tuesday authorizing Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody to conduct a criminal investigation into the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump over the weekend.
The investigation comes after a Democrat donor with a lengthy criminal record that barred him from owning firearms was spotted on one of Trump’s golf courses with a rifle only a few hundred yards away from the former president.
The individual, who also appeared to own a truck that had a Biden-Harris bumpersticker on it, wrote a book where he urged Iran to assassinate Trump.
“The State of Florida is conducting its own investigation into the second attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump,” DeSantis said. “It is not in the best interests of our state and nation to have the same federal agencies seeking to prosecute Trump leading this investigation.”
DeSantis said that the state has “jurisdiction over the most serious, readily provable offense: attempted murder.”
“I have directed our state agencies to move expeditiously and to provide full transparency to the public,” he added. “There will be accountability in Florida. The people of our state, and the entire country, deserve no less.”
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He said that the most important aspect of the state investigation versus the federal investigation is that the state’s probe will have much more transparency.
“What the state does is going to be made public,” he said. “I mean, you guys know who are from Florida, you can FOIA a lot of the stuff that’s done in these investigations under Florida sunshine laws. And then they have a charge to be very frank and exercise candor with the public. I want the information to get out. I do not want any of the information kept under wraps.”
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Q: “What kind of information do you think a state investigation will reveal that a federal investigation may not?”
Here’s my answer: pic.twitter.com/qhosylasTL
— Ron DeSantis (@GovRonDeSantis) September 17, 2024