As the Senate holds its first hearing into Donald Trump's shooting, some lawmakers are simmering over both the FBI director's suggestion the former president may not have been wounded by a bullet and the Secret Service's failure to get him off stage despite nearly 100 minutes of red flags about the would-be assassin.
Wray told the committee that "With respect to former President Trump, there's some question about whether or not it's a bullet or shrapnel that hit his ear." That statement drew a rebuke from Trump himself, and eventually the FBI clarified the former president had indeed been wounded by a bullet.
The reversal did little to assuage critics, including one of the senators participating in Tuesday's Senate Judiciary Committee hearing with FBI Deputy Director Paul Abbate and Acting Secret Service Director Ronald Rowe Jr. "We expected the Mainstream Media and the Far Left to try to rewrite history of what happened on July 13, but the American people got to see how far the rot within the Biden-Harris administration goes when the FBI Director lied under oath trying to downplay whether a bullet actually struck Donald Trump," Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kan., told Just the News in a statement.
Another senator on the committee, Republican Chuck Grassley of Iowa, also raised dramatic questions about why Trump wasn't taken off stage early, producing an extensive timeline showing authorities knew about concerns about the would-be assassin Thomas Crook for nearly 100 minutes before bullets were fired.
Nearly an hour and a half before Trump took the stage, texts show that local law enforcement noticed Crooks "Snuck in" and "Parked by our cars." This identification came more than a hour before a local officer photographed Crooks and sent the pictures in a group message with other officers on the sniper teams.
5:38 p.m.: A Beaver County sniper sends photos of Crooks to the Beaver, Butler and Washington snipers group chat.
5:45 p.m.: A Beaver County sniper sends photos of Crooks to the Beaver County ESU group chat. Beaver law enforcement recommends they alert “command." You can read those texts here.
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