Sen. Ron Johnson, who co-authored the bipartisan Senate Homeland Security Committee report on the attempted assassination of President Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, said Sunday that he is going to subpoena the FBI to get information about that day after witnesses who were at the scene quit talking.
“What we released in our report was primarily obtained within a week by my investigators talking to people on the ground who, at that point in time, were willing to share information,” the Wisconsin Republican said on Newsmax’s special coverage of the first anniversary of the shootings. “But within a week or two, everybody started clamming up. We had to go through the Secret Service to just even get interviews with a few, maybe a dozen or two Secret Service personnel that are on the ground. Some of the key people we’ve never been able to talk to.”
Johnson said he assumed that once Trump’s administration came into office, it would have every incentive to open the process to investigate the attempt and be transparent with the American public.
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