Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed an executive order on Tuesday authorizing Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody to conduct a criminal investigation into the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump over the weekend.
The investigation comes after a Democrat donor with a lengthy criminal record that barred him from owning firearms was spotted on one of Trump’s golf courses with a rifle only a few hundred yards away from the former president.
The individual, who also appeared to own a truck that had a Biden-Harris bumpersticker on it, wrote a book where he urged Iran to assassinate Trump.
“The State of Florida is conducting its own investigation into the second attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump,” DeSantis said. “It is not in the best interests of our state and nation to have the same federal agencies seeking to prosecute Trump leading this investigation.”
DeSantis said that the state has “jurisdiction over the most serious, readily…