Marjorie Taylor Greene Accuses Trump Of Butler Assassination Attempt Cover-Up
Former Rep. Greene isn't calling the Butler assassination attempt a hoax, but she is suggesting that Trump is engaging in a cover-up.
The assassination attempt against Donald Trump in Butler, PA, was one of the strangest assassination attempts in US history.
The event was held in an outdoor venue that, even in the best of circumstances, would have been tough to secure. Local Republicans warned the Trump campaign that the venue presented security concerns.
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The security for the event itself was a hodgepodge of Secret Service, state, and local police.
It was a big news story that dominated the headlines just before the Republican convention during the 2024 campaign, and then it vanished.
After Trump made the assassination attempt a centerpiece of the Republican convention, he stopped talking about it, and it disappeared from the headlines.
Questions about Butler returned after The Washington Post reported that Russia developed a plan to stage an assassination attempt to swing the Hungarian election:
Officers from the intelligence service, or SVR, suggested that drastic action might be necessary — a strategy they called “the Gamechanger.” In an internal report for the SVR obtained and authenticated by a European intelligence service and reviewed by The Washington Post, the operatives proposed a way to “fundamentally alter the entire paradigm of the election campaign” — “the staging of an assassination attempt on Viktor Orban.”
Russia didn’t follow through with the plan, but it did raise questions about Trump and Butler.
Former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has questions of her own.
