Excerpts from an interview with GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump and running mate JD Vance conducted with Fox News host Jesse Watters were released Saturday night, and Trump revealed some disturbing information: he was not warned that there was a risk despite the fact security forces were aware that his eventual wannabe assassin was on the scene and presented a threat.
Why did they let the former president out onto the stage when there was an identified danger present? This is the question that will haunt the Secret Service for a very long time indeed.
Trump said he would have waited:
“Mistakes were made,” Watters told Trump. “They were monitoring this guy for an hour beforehand. No one told you not to take the stage?”
“Nobody mentioned it,” the former president replied. “Nobody said it was a problem.”
“[They] could’ve said, ‘Let’s wait for 15, 20 minutes, 5 minutes.’ Nobody…
