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On the recordJuly 12, 2025
One year following the assassination attempt of President Trump, the American people still do not have answers to all of their questions about the breakdown of security at the Butler campaign rally and detailed information about the would-be assassin, Thomas Crooks.
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Lester Johnson
Republican · Wisconsin

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Sen. Johnson discusses the lack of transparency regarding security during the assassination attempt on President Trump.

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Oct 23, 2024

It is just so dispiriting to sign up to protect the public and then basically be prevented from doing the job by this administration.

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It sounds to me like it was also a politically motivated prosecution.

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Knowing full well that they were releasing them to the hands of probably members of transnational criminal organizations, human sex traffickers, knowing full well that--again, it was not a surprise to them.

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Oct 23, 2024

Not to my knowledge, and what is even more egregious about that is they did not have identification and we just created identities for these people.

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