In a recent interview with Fox News’ Maria Bartiromo, Senator Ron Johnson raised serious concerns about the investigation into the 2023 rally shooting, highlighting significant lapses in coordination between the FBI, Secret Service, and local law enforcement. Johnson expressed skepticism towards the federal agencies, citing inconsistencies in their narrative and the need for an independent investigation.

Johnson began by sharing findings from his own inquiry. “My staff immediately started reaching out to local law enforcement. We’ve gathered a fair amount of information. We’re just scratching the surface, but a couple of things we found out, for example, the Secret Service did not even attend the nine o’clock security meeting with local law enforcement, pretty well put in charge The Butler County law enforcement to coordinate things. Law enforcement wasn’t even on the same channel,” he said.

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This morning, @RonJohnsonWI Senator Ron Johnson went on @MariaBartiromo’s show and said he has learned that right after Thomas Matthew Crooks was shot and killed, a guy in a grey suit climbed up the ladder and onto the roof where the shooter’s dead body was and started… pic.twitter.com/Vq79OABSdb

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Maria Bartiromo clarified, “Just to be clear, Senator, that was a 9 am meeting on July 13, the day of the shooting?”

“Correct, correct. They weren’t even there. You kind of turned over some of the outer perimeter stuff to local law enforcement, they weren’t even on the same security channel, so the sniper and SWAT teams weren’t on the same channel as the patrol officers, and they were on the same channel as Secret Service. So they had to relay things. One of the things we found out is that we’ve got a more detailed timeline. This picture is now on the internet, but a picture was photos taken by the local sniper team in the AGR building at 5:14 of Crooks. So again, we had pictures of this guy. Why was he not intercepted? There’s so many unanswered questions here,” Johnson responded.

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Bartiromo noted the timeline, “The pictures were taken at 5:14, and he was shot at 6:11.”

“Correct. So, I’m going to be issuing a preliminary report. It’s, again, it’s preliminary. It’s just scratching the surface. We’re primarily going to release that report to solicit more eyewitness testimony. If you took video, save it, make a backup copy. We can glean things in terms of audio and in terms of, you know, where the shots came from? Was it one rifle? Was it more than one? I’ve seen some pretty interesting video on the internet by experts that certainly calls into question what the FBI is telling us about a single shooter. Again, we’re only just beginning this, but it is so important that people who saw things that have information, they preserve it. They memorialize what they saw. Because memories change over time. They can be influenced. So it’s again, it’s good news on a bipartisan basis, Chairman Blumenthal and I are dedicated to taking transcribed interviews with law enforcement and public the just members of the general public there at that rally, no matter how insignificant your piece of information might be, it might, you know, lend to provide the full story of what happened, because American public needs to understand what happened here,” Johnson elaborated.

Bartiromo highlighted the lack of coordination after the shooter was neutralized. “I know that well, I tweeted out yesterday the fact that you’re doing this bipartisan investigation, and I put on your email, you have, you have an email that you want people to send information to, and I know that you’ll you’ll tweet that later. But I got to get to this after the shooter was taken down by Secret Service, the local law enforcement, and I know this from some of your preliminary comments, your preliminary findings, started taking pictures of the dead body, right? Can you tell us what happened then?”

Johnson confirmed, “Correct. So last night for teens in the AGR building, they’re the first ones that went up on the roof. They were the first to encounter the dead assassin at that point in time. Later on, other people joined them, and somebody told them to send the pictures they had taken to an ATF agent, which I think is very strange. And we called up that ATF agent, that individual said that he was with ATF and now he’s gone dark. We’ve also reached out to the Secret Service agents in charge on the ground. All we’re getting there is the runaround. So we are getting information from local law enforcement, and we appreciate that, but unfortunately, federal law enforcement agents, they’re just saying, well, go through your congressional liaison again, that’s going to be unacceptable. I wish I could rely and have faith in the FBI and Secret Service to do a truthful accounting of this, but that’s not been my experience with the Russian collusion hoax. And for years dealing with federal law enforcement, we need completely separate and independent investigations, and it has to start now.”

Bartiromo pressed further, “So are you questioning whether or not there was a second shooter? Is that what you’re questioning, or if the shooter had a different gun?”

Johnson replied, “I saw you extremely convincing video online. I know it’s all over the place. There were three distinct shots early on, followed by another five in more staccato, more rapidly fired, and then the final one, which we believe took the shooter out. How do you explain that? I don’t know. I’m not an expert, but the individual putting that video out says it clearly shows that there are at least three different weapons fired that day. Again, I don’t know, but we can’t trust the FBI and Secret Service to do an honest and open, transparent investigation. That’s just a very sad fact. So we’ve got, we’ve got to rely on on other sources, independent to really find out what the truth of the matter was on Saturday, July 13.”

Returning to the sequence of events post-shooting, Bartiromo asked, “So let me go back to what happened after the guy, the shooter, is dead. You just mentioned somebody goes up. So this is the guy in the suit who walks up the ladder, goes to the roof and tells the local, the locals send those pictures to this cell phone. Who was that person?”

Johnson clarified, “Well, again, I’m not sure that was the guy. I think another county law enforcement gave the number to the other county law enforcement, the snipers to send the text. Some guy in a suit walks up the ladder. They believe he was Secret Service. I’m not sure where they gave credentials, but that’s part. Again, Maria, this is so preliminary. I’m issuing this, I’m providing this information, a much more detailed timeline to prompt others to come forward. We need to complete this picture. We have a lot of puzzle pieces to fill in here.”

Bartiromo questioned the involvement of the ATF, “Is it odd to you that the locals were being told to send the pictures to the Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms agency, ATF. What does the ATF got to do with it?”

Johnson explained the initial miscommunication, “The oddity starts with the fact that local law enforcement were just tasked with securing the perimeter. Told to go cover that AGR building not really told where it is set up. So they set up on the second floor. They went to that AGR building at 10:30 in the morning. So they were stationed there well in advance, they noticed this suspicious character at 5:10, they took a photo of him at 5:14. The President was shot at 6:11. So again, an hour has passed. Again, they don’t communicate. They didn’t have communication on the same channels with their law enforcement patrol officers. They weren’t in communication with the Secret Service other than going through the Butler County communication center. So again, everything you would assume about Secret Service protection of a former president was not true. It didn’t happen. It’s just baffling to me. It should baffle the American public. That’s why we need to find the answers and find out what actually happened here.”

Senator Ron Johnson’s remarks highlight significant security lapses and the need for a thorough, independent investigation into the events surrounding the Trump rally shooting. The lack of coordination and communication among law enforcement agencies raises serious questions about their ability to protect high-profile figures.

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