Economist and Columbia University professor Jeffrey Sachs has criticized the government for refusing to explain the details behind the assassination attempt on Donald Trump.
Speaking to Tucker Carlson, Sachs said the lack of background on what led to Trump’s shooting is what happens when the government refuses to be honest with its citizens.
“We don’t know what happened, it’s absolutely shocking, we don’t know the story and if we ever know the story it’s like so many things now that are big events,” he said.
Sachs, an Ivy Leaguer who has worked with the UN in the past but has been at odds with liberal elites since promoting the COVID-19 “lab leak” theory, blames Americans’ short attention spans, which prevent them from holding Washington accountable.
“The 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, the government completely lies, we have secrecy and confidentiality, so we never solve any of these problems.”
Economist and Columbia University professor Jeffrey Sachs criticized the government for refusing to explain the details behind the assassination attempt against Donald Trump
Speaking to Tucker Carlson, Sachs said the lack of background on what led to Trump’s assassination is what happens when the government refuses to be honest with its citizens.
He then went on to complain about the government’s attitude towards its citizens.
“What bothers me about Washington is that they don’t feel like they have to answer to anything and when you see the spokespeople… they smile! They tell you to your face that you’re nothing! We can tell you anything! They smile!”
Trump, 78, was shot at a rally in Pennsylvania on July 13, with the bullet passing through his right ear. He says it was a “miracle” and an act of God that he survived.
Last week, the FBI revealed that investigators who have conducted nearly 1,000 interviews still do not have a motive for why 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks shot Trump during a campaign rally in July.
IThey believe Crooks carried out “extensive attack planning,” including targeting campaign events involving both Trump and current President Joe Biden, particularly in western Pennsylvania.
The FBI’s analysis of online search history reveals “a sustained and detailed effort to plan an attack against some event, meaning it looked at any number of events or targets,” Kevin Rojek, the special agent in charge of the FBI’s Pittsburgh field office, told reporters last week.
Once a Trump rally was announced for July 13 in Butler, Pennsylvania, “he became inordinately focused on that specific event and viewed it as a target of opportunity,” Rojek said.
Crooks’ internet searches in the days leading up to the rally included queries about the grounds where the rally was held, “Where will Trump be speaking at the Butler Farm Show?”, “Butler Farm Show podium” and “Butler Farm Show photos.”
Sachs, an Ivy Leaguer who has worked with the U.N. in the past but has been at odds with liberal elites since promoting the COVID-19 “lab leak” theory, blames Americans’ short attention spans for holding Washington accountable.
Trump, 78, was shot at a rally in Pennsylvania on July 13, with the bullet passing through his right ear. He says it was a “miracle” and an act of God that he survived.
In the 30 days before the attack, the FBI says, 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 did a Google search for “How far was Oswald from Kennedy?”
This is an apparent reference to Lee Harvey Oswald, the gunman who killed President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963.
The new details add to an emerging portrait of Crooks as a highly intelligent and reclusive man who investigators say in the years before the shooting had shown a disturbing interest in explosives, violence and prominent public figures — but whose internet searches of Democrats and Republicans alike have thwarted efforts to assign a simple political motive or establish why Trump himself would have been targeted.
“We have a good idea of the killer’s mindset, but we’re not prepared to make any conclusive statements about motive at this time,” Rojek said. The FBI also has not found that anyone else had prior knowledge of the shooting or that Crooks conspired with anyone else.
The FBI found explosive devices in his car and at his home, and investigators say their internet searches revealed that since at least 2019 he had sought information about bomb-making materials, including how remote detonators work.
The FBI said Trump was hit in the ear by a bullet or a bullet fragment during the assassination attempt.
The gunmen fired eight shots from an AR-style rifle. One protester was killed and two others were wounded before the gunman, who was positioned on the roof of a building less than 150 yards away, was killed by a Secret Service sniper.
Also last week, the FBI released images of the rifle Crooks used, his backpack and improvised explosive devices found in his car.