Economist and Columbia University Professor Jeffrey Sachs slammed the government for refusing to explain the details behind the assassination attempt against Donald Trump.
Speaking to Tucker Carlson, Sachs said that the lack of background on what led to Trump being shot is what happens when the government refuses to level with citizens.
‘We don’t know what happened, it’s absolutely shocking, we don’t know the story and whether we ever will know the story is, like so many things now that are huge events,’ he said.
Sachs – an Ivy Leaguer who has worked with the UN in the past but has been on the outs with liberal elites since promoting the COVID-19 ‘lab leak’ theory – blames Americans’ short attention spans preventing them from keeping Washington accountable.
‘Assassination attempt on Trump, isn’t that weeks ago? That’s old news, we don’t even talk about that anymore! We have no attention span, we have complete lying from the government, we have secrecy and confidentiality, so we never solve any of these issues’.
He then went on to complain about the government’s attitude toward its citizens in return.
‘The thing that gets me about Washington is they don’t feel they have to respond to anything and you watch the spokespeople… they smirk! Right in your face to tell you you are nothing! We can tell anything to you! They smirk!’
Trump, 78, was shot at a Pennsylvania rally on July 13, with the bullet piercing the skin of his right ear. He says it was ‘miracle’ and act of God that he survived.
Last week, the FBI revealed that investigators who have conducted nearly 1,000 interviews do not yet have a motive for why 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks shot at Trump during a July campaign rally.
They believe that Crooks conducted ‘extensive attack planning,’ including looking up campaign events involving both Trump and current President Joe Biden, particularly in western Pennsylvania.
The FBI analysis of his online search history reveals a ‘sustained, detailed effort to plan an attack on some event, meaning he looked at any number of events or targets,’ Kevin Rojek, the special agent in charge of the FBI’s Pittsburgh field office, told reporters last week.
Once a Trump rally was announced for July 13 in Butler, Pennsylvania, ‘He became hyper-focused on that specific event and looked at it as a target of opportunity,’ Rojek said.
Crooks’ internet searches in the days leading up to the rally included queries about the grounds where the rally was held, ‘Where will Trump speak from at Butler Farm Show?’ ‘Butler Farm Show podium’ and ‘Butler Farm Show photos.’
In the 30 days before the attack, the FBI says, Crooks did more than 60 internet searches related to Biden and Trump, including seeking the dates of both the Democratic and Republican national conventions.
FBI Director Christopher Wray has previously revealed that one week before the shooting, Crooks did a Google search for ‘How far away was Oswald from Kennedy?’
That’s an apparent reference to Lee Harvey Oswald, the shooter who killed President John F. Kennedy on Nov. 22, 1963.
The new details add to an emerging portrait of Crooks as a highly intelligent and reclusive man who investigators say in the years before the shooting had taken an eerie interest in explosives, violence and prominent public figures but whose internet searches of Democrats and Republicans alike have frustrated efforts to assign a simple political motive or to establish why Trump himself would have been targeted.
‘We have a clear idea of mindset, but we are not ready to make any conclusive statements regarding motive at this time,’ Rojek said. The FBI has also not found that anyone else had advance knowledge of the shooting or that Crooks had conspired with anyone else.
The FBI found explosive devices in his car and home, and investigators say his internet searches revealed that since at least 2019 he had looked up information about bomb-making materials, including about how remote detonators work.
The FBI has said that Trump was struck in the ear by a bullet or a bullet fragment in the assassination attempt.
Crooks fired eight shots from an AR-style rifle. One rallygoer was killed and two others were injured before the gunman, who was positioned on the roof of a building less than 150 yards away, was killed by a Secret Service counter-sniper.
Also last week, the FBI released images of the rifle Crooks used, his backpack and improvised explosive devices found in his car.