Butler, Pennsylvania, officials reportedly ‘whispering’ that there is ‘something more to the story.’
Rep. Lou Correa, (D-Calif.), a top House Democrat, revealed this week he spoke with local officials in Butler, Pennsylvania, where Donald Trump was shot earlier this month who voiced concerns about the official narrative being delivered to the public.
Congressman Lou Correa says there’s more to the story about what happened in Butler, and people are afraid to come forward pic.twitter.com/nCqiWz7WTR
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During Tuesday’s House Homeland Security Committee hearing on the Trump rally shooting, Congressman Correa explained he recently visited the fairgrounds where the Trump assassination attempt took place.
He said, “I had local law enforcement officers, local electeds coming to me, whispering to me, ‘There’s more here to the story. We need to talk about what actually happened.’”
“To have people that were on the ground concerned, afraid of stepping forward is unacceptable… To tell us about other failures that maybe this committee does not know about yet.”
One local officer reportedly told the congressman it took fifteen minutes for the department to be able to communicate with Secret Service after spotting the shooter Thomas Crooks.
He also claimed a local elected official shared insider information he was too scared to release publicly.
“A couple of folks there kind of hinted to me that everybody locally is not comfortable going out and giving their opinion,” Correa said. “But one individual said he’s not quite sure who was in charge.”
The congressman detailed a conversation with a local officer who alleged his colleagues are unsure if the Trump campaign or Secret Service is in charge of security at presidential rallies.
Correa also said, “There was a local supervisor or council member who said that we need to talk some more. You guys (Congress) need to hear more about what happened and what didn’t happen. They weren’t here [in Washington]. We need to get their opinions and thoughts. Those are the people that were where the rubber meets the road, so to speak.”
America deserves to hear directly from the locals who are apparently fearful of speaking out about the assassination attempt.
The question is, why are they afraid to talk and who is telling them to stay silent?
