<p>Former President Donald Trump spoke more about the assassination attempt and the security lapses that led to the shooting, <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/trump-reveals-he-spoke-secret-service-director-cheatle-wants-know-how-would-be-assassin-got-roof" target="_blank" rel="noopener">telling</a> Fox News&#8217;s Jesse Watters in an interview that aired Monday night that it&#8217;s &#8220;crazy&#8221; that the Secret Service didn&#8217;t have more manpower at his Pennsylvania campaign rally.</p>
<p>Trump survived the July 13 shooting after a bullet hit his right ear, while three other people were struck by more gunfire, including firefighter Corey Comperatore, who was killed. The 20-year-old shooter gained access to a roof fewer than 150 yards away from the rally stage and was <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/trump-assassination-attempt-investigation-continues-new-details/story?id=112020474" target="_blank" rel="noopener">spotted</a> by Secret Service snipers 20 minutes before he opened fire, according to law enforcement officials.</p>
<p>&#8220;Somebody should&#8217;ve made sure there was nobody on that roof. That roof was a dead aim right onto the stage,&#8221; Trump told Watters. &#8220;And they said they didn&#8217;t have the manpower for it, which is crazy. A hundred thirty yards is like sinking a one-foot putt. It&#8217;s considered really close.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;You have to answer: why couldn&#8217;t I have stayed off the stage for five minutes while they do their work? Why couldn&#8217;t, you know, how does a situation happen where a roof that&#8217;s plainly in sight from the location where I was speaking … why would somebody not have seen that?&#8221; the Republican presidential nominee added.</p>
<p>Trump <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/112836289155893843" target="_blank" rel="noopener">blasted</a> the &#8220;Biden/Harris administration&#8221; over the assassination attempt in a post on Truth Social on Tuesday morning, writing, &#8220;The Biden/Harris Administration did not properly protect me, and I was forced to take a bullet for Democracy. IT WAS MY GREAT HONOR TO DO SO!&#8221;</p>
<p>Trump also told the Fox News host that Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle, who <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/secret-service-director-resigns-amid-uproar-over-trump-assassination-attempt">resigned on Tuesday morning</a>, came to see him after the assassination attempt. The former president said his meeting with Cheatle &#8220;went very nicely,&#8221; adding that he believes she was given &#8220;false information&#8221; about the slope of the roof the shooter was perched on. Cheatle said last week that the roof&#8217;s slope presented a safety risk.</p>
<p>&#8220;I noticed that she [Cheatle] said, well, this is a slope[d] roof where you think of like a barn where you have, this thing had just a little &#8212; a little upswing in it, a few degrees. This was a not &#8212; it essentially was a flat roof,&#8221; Trump said.</p>
<p>Cheatle was questioned during a Congressional hearing on Monday and was urged by Republicans and Democrats to resign after she dodged answering numerous questions on how the would-be assassin was able to fire multiple shots at the former president.</p>
<p><strong>RELATED: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/whistleblower-says-law-enforcement-abandoned-roof-where-gunman-shot-at-trump-due-to-hot-weather">Whistleblower Says Law Enforcement Abandoned Roof Where Gunman Shot At Trump Due To Hot Weather</a></strong></p>

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