President Donald Trump has spoken out for the first time about his concerns for his family members after surviving back-to-back assassination attempts in July and September. Trump has rarely spoken about the threats to his own life, often preferring to change the subject or joke about it. As you can imagine, however, Trump says he worries for the safety of his family. Who could blame him? As desperate as the Democrat Party and the Biden White House are to murder him, does anyone think they wouldn’t settle for killing his wife or one of his children?
Trump made the comments during an interview with Brian Kilmeade on Fox News. It was the first time that Trump has been asked about his family, following the second assassination attempt against him in September. So far, there have been no attempts on the lives of his wife or children. They all have Secret Service protection. However, so does President Trump.
On July 13, a 20-year-old man was able to crawl up onto a roof and wander around for several minutes, finding the optimal place to shoot at President Trump from 130 yards away. A 20-year-old kid somehow managed to outwit the most sophisticated intelligence agency in the world. He also killed one Trump supporter at the rally and severely wounded two others.
On September 15, a man with obvious ties to various federal agencies was nearly able to shoot at President Trump on his Palm Beach golf course. A Secret Service agent spotted Ryan Routh’s SKS rifle pointing through the fence and emptied an entire magazine from his sidearm at him but failed to hit Routh a single time as he ran away. This doesn’t exactly inspire confidence in the Secret Service, even though Trump was unharmed.
The Secret Service had managed to protect every president from the 43-year period when Ronald Reagan was shot and President Trump was shot in Butler. The Secret Service didn’t fail just once, but twice this year. Members of one of the committees investigating the assassinations believe that there could be a mole inside the Secret Service, or more likely inside the Department of Homeland Security (which oversees the Secret Service).
This makes sense when you consider some of the overlap between the two would-be assassins. Thomas Crooks, who shot President Trump in Butler, just so happened to “coincidentally” train at the same western Pennsylvania gun range where the DHS trains all its agents. Ryan Routh, the attempted Florida assassin, was flagged by DHS when he returned to the US from Ukraine earlier this year – but the DHS ignored him.
Congressman Matt Gaetz (R-FL) says that a DHS official briefed him this month on the fact that there are five assassination teams in the US who are hunting President Trump right now. Gaetz says three of the teams are foreign, including one from Ukraine.
Side note: Why didn’t anyone in the media ask Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky about this when he was campaigning in Pennsylvania for Kamala Harris this week?
While President Trump is concerned about the safety of his family, he notes that he’s concerned for all Americans right now. He’s worried that more attacks could result in the deaths or injuries of his supporters at his massive rallies.
“I worry about everybody because look, we’re under siege, and no country has ever suffered like we have the last three and a half, almost four years,” Trump told Fox News.
In typical fashion, President Trump is more worried about everyone else than he is about his own safety.
