Rep. Mike Waltz (R-Fla. ), a former Green Beret and member of the bipartisan House task force investigating the assassination of former president Donald Trump, revealed on Wednesday that Thomas Matthew Crooks had eavesdropped on accounts held in countries like Germany, Belgium, and New Zealand.
At a press conference held on Wednesday at the Trump Hotel in Chicago, Waltz gave investigators an upgrade on the research into the attempted assassination of Trump on July 13 at the former mayor’s campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.
Asked what the bipartisan task force had learned throughout the course of its investigation, specifically regarding encrypted messages found on the Trump shooter’s cellphone, Waltz said,” We still have n’t learned a lot. We have n’t learned that much about those overseas accounts. We do know that they were in, if I get this accurately, Belgium, New Zealand and Germany”.
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Waltz continued,” Why do 19-year-old children who work in healthcare have encrypted systems outside the United States, where most terrorist organizations are aware that our law enforcement is harder to penetrate? That’s a problem I’ve had since morning one”.
Waltz even criticized the Secret Service and the Federal Bureau of Investigation for holding off on the death effort until the two organizations finished their studies, which are not anticipated to be finished for decades. During Wednesday’s press conference, Waltz even criticized the Secret Service and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
” They need to be releasing information as they come across it, because this was n’t an isolated incident”, Waltz stated. ” The risks are continually Iran’s hazards”.
The Republican-led House announced the republican work force’s 13 members last month, according to The Daily Wire. According to the report, the work force that is looking into the assassination attempt against Trump consists of six Democratic people and seven Republicans.
In addition to the House’s exploration, the House and Senate have held public hearings with the FBI’s and Secret Service’s heads to examine the security issues that led to the attempted assassination.
