Trump says he doesn’t trust DOJ or FBI to investigate assassination attempts against him

On Monday, the former president Donald Trump questioned the impartiality with which the Justice Department prosecuted the man accused of attempting to assassinate Trump at a Florida Golf Course.

Mr. Trump stated that he did not trust the federal government prosecuting him, to also prosecute alleged assassin Ryan Wesley Routh.

Trump stated in a press release that the DOJ and FBI had a conflict of interest because they were obsessed with “getting Trump” for so long. It’s difficult to trust Biden/Harris DOJ/FBI investigators to look into the assassination attempt, because of Election Interference, FAKE cases brought against me and their control over local D.A.s. and A.G.s.

Mr. Trump said that federal prosecutors “should step aside” and “let Florida deal with the case.”

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Routh is a felon convicted of two felony gun violations. In a Miami federal district court, he was denied bail Monday. Prosecutors said that they were preparing a federal charge for attempted assassination.

Jack Smith, a special prosecutor at the Justice Department, has charged Mr. Trump in separate cases with interfering in the 2020 elections and storing classified materials in his Palm Beach, Florida, home. In New York, the former president was also convicted of felony fraud in a case involving hush money. He is now facing felony charges for election interference in Georgia and Fulton County.

Trump claimed that all of these cases were political lawfare, carried out by or influenced in some way by the Biden Administration.