Rep. Mike Waltz revealed on FOX News that the shooter who tried to assassinate former President Donald Trump had three encrypted overseas accounts, hinting at a possible international conspiracy. He criticized the Secret Service for failing to provide adequate protection and suggested that the attack could be linked to broader foreign threats, including Iran. The revelations point to deep security lapses and potential foreign interference, adding a new layer of intrigue to the investigation into the assassination attempt.
In an interview with FOX News host Jesse Watters on Thursday, Rep. Mike Waltz (R-FL) said that the gunman responsible for the attempted murder of former President Donald Trump had three encrypted foreign accounts.
Read the transcript below:
JESSE WATTERS: You should strip [Secret Service director Kim Cheatle’s] salary away. Make her dip into her savings to go grocery shopping. It’s totally unacceptable what she’s done, completely.
So if you guys hold hearings, because there must be some sort of Select Committee on the attempted assassination of President Trump, you should hold it somewhere else besides Washington, D.C., because if some of these people you get up there lie, there’s not going to be anybody in D.C. that’s going to say, oh, yeah, we’ll indict him for perjury. You’ve got to do it outside of the swamp. You should try that.
REP. STEVE SCALISE (R-LA): Well, believe me, the statute of limitations will not expire by the time Donald Trump is president of the United States. They’re going to have to deal with that. That’s right.
REP. MIKE WALTZ (R-FL): Yeah, no, great point. The other thing is, I mean, I just talked to one of the agents a few hours ago. I talked to some Sunday. The agents are pissed. They’re frustrated. They’ve repeatedly asked for resources.
Donald Trump isn’t your normal, average former president. He’s not Jimmy Carter sitting in the old folks’ home. And, oh, by the way, some other things are coming out, like the shooter had three encrypted accounts overseas at the same time we’re having an Iranian plot.
So, I mean, there is I think this is going to go much broader, much deeper. But the agents are going to hold her hold her to accounts, their lives on the lines. And she was not giving the resources they were requesting.
But one other thing, Jesse, that Pittsburgh field office was the one responsible for the advance. That was clearly not done appropriately and distracted by Dr. Jill.
WATTERS: And the Pittsburgh field office was also responsible for covering up that bribery Ukraine tip that came in as well. Are you saying that you’re getting information that says there’s encrypted communications between crooks and foreign sources?
WALTZ: Now, what we know, and this was on the briefing we just received, he had three encrypted overseas accounts the FBI is trying to get into.
WATTERS: What do you mean by overseas accounts?
WALTZ: Well, we know that they were based in servers overseas. And so you’ve got to work over there with the FBI liaisons overseas to start getting into them through their authorities.
WATTERS: Do you believe this attempt on the former president’s life has some sort of foreign nexus?
WALTZ: Well, we know the Iranians have been trying for years, not only him, but everybody, Pompeo and others, involved in the Soleimani strike. And we also know it’s finally come out, many of us have been fighting this for years, that they pulled National Security Advisor O’Brien’s detail completely away. He’s had to go to his own private security and local law enforcement.
So there is all kinds of issues here, and we’re going to get to the bottom of it starting on Monday.
WATTERS: I’m just not so sure I believe everything that I’m being told about what’s inside his phone yet.
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