Economist and Columbia University professor Jeffrey Sachs criticized the government for refusing to explain the details behind the attempted assassination of Donald Trump.
Speaking to Tucker Carlson, Sachs said the lack of background information about what led to Trump’s death is a result of the government’s refusal to provide citizens with honest information.
“We don’t know what happened, it’s absolutely shocking. We don’t know the story and whether we ever will know is like so many other things that are big events now,” he said.
Sachs, an Ivy Leaguer who has worked with the UN in the past but has fallen out of touch with the liberal elite since he advanced the “lab leak” theory about COVID-19, blames Americans’ short attention spans for their inability to hold Washington accountable.
‘Attempted assassination of Trump, wasn’t that weeks ago? That’s old news, we don’t even talk about it anymore! We have no attention span, we have complete lies from the government, we have secrecy and confidentiality, so we’re never going to solve any of these problems.’
Economist and Columbia University professor Jeffrey Sachs criticized the government for refusing to explain the details behind the attempted assassination of Donald Trump
Speaking to Tucker Carlson, Sachs said the lack of background information about what led to Trump being shot is a result of the government’s refusal to provide citizens with honest information.
He then complained about the government’s attitude towards its citizens.
“What bothers me about Washington is they feel like they don’t have to respond to anything and you see the spokespeople… they grin! Right in your face to tell you you’re nothing! We can tell you anything! They grin!”
Trump, 78, was shot at a rally in Pennsylvania on July 13, with the bullet piercing the skin of his right ear. He says it was a “miracle” and an act of God that he survived.
Last week, the FBI announced that investigators who conducted nearly 1,000 interviews have yet to find a motive for why 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks shot Trump at a campaign rally in July.
TThey believe Crooks carried out “elaborate attack planning,” which included targeting campaign events involving both Trump and now-President Joe Biden, particularly in western Pennsylvania.
The FBI’s analysis of his online search history shows that he “engaged in a sustained, detailed effort to plan an attack on a specific event. That means he was looking at a large number of events or targets,” Kevin Rojek, the special agent in charge of the FBI’s Pittsburgh office, told reporters last week.
When a Trump rally was announced for July 13 in Butler, Pennsylvania, “he became extremely focused on that particular event and saw it as a potential target,” Rojek said.
In the run-up to the meeting, Crooks searched the Internet for, among other things, the location of the meeting, “Where will Trump speak at the Butler Farm Show?”, “Butler Farm Show stage,” and “Butler Farm Show photos.”
Sachs — an Ivy Leaguer who has worked with the UN in the past but has clashed with the liberal elite since its promotion of the COVID-19 “lab leak” theory — blames Americans’ short attention spans for preventing them from holding Washington accountable.
Trump, 78, was shot at a rally in Pennsylvania on July 13, with the bullet piercing the skin of his right ear. He says it was a “miracle” and an act of God that he survived
According to the FBI, in the 30 days before the attack, Crooks conducted more than 60 internet searches related to Biden and Trump, including the dates of the Democratic and Republican national conventions.
FBI Director Christopher Wray previously revealed that a week before the shooting, Crooks searched Google for “How far was Oswald from Kennedy?”
That is an apparent reference to Lee Harvey Oswald, the gunman who killed President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963.
The new details reinforce the picture of Crooks as a highly intelligent and reclusive man who, investigators say, had an eerie interest in explosives, violence and prominent public figures in the years before the shooting. But his internet searches for both Democrats and Republicans have stymied efforts to pinpoint a straightforward political motive or determine why Trump himself might have been targeted.
“We have a clear idea of the mindset, but we’re not ready to make any conclusive statements about the motive at this point,” Rojek said, adding that the FBI has not found that anyone else had prior knowledge of the shooting or that Crooks conspired with anyone else.
The FBI found explosives in his car and home. According to investigators, his internet searches showed that since at least 2019 he had been researching information about bomb-making materials, including information about how remote detonators work.
According to the FBI, Trump was hit in the ear by a bullet or bullet fragment during the attempted assassination.
Crooks fired eight shots from an AR-style rifle, killing one rallygoer and wounding two others before the gunman, who was on the roof of a building less than 150 yards away, was killed by a Secret Service counter-sniper.
Also last week, the FBI released images of the gun Crooks used, his backpack and improvised explosive devices found in his car.