Several assassination squads target US politician Trump

Matt Gaetz has suggested that the suspected hitmen could be assisted by a Secret Service “mole.”

Five “assassination teams” are currently trying to kill former US President Donald Trump, Florida state Rep. Matt Gaetz claimed, citing sources in the Department of Homeland Security.

In an interview with Breitbart News on Thursday, Gaetz condemned an apparent attempt on Trump's life last weekend as “tragic” and “preventable,” claiming that security forces around the former president were insufficient to protect him from harm.

Gaetz further claimed that he recently met with a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) official who told him there were “at least five teams in the country whose goal is to kill Trump.”

“Three of them, as we know, are foreign in nature. Two of them, as we know, are domestic in nature and require force protection that we do not currently have around the former president,” Gaetz continued, noting that the foreign teams have ties to Ukraine, Iran and Pakistan.

These teams could move freely in the US, Gaetz claimed, because there was “insufficient control to stop them”.

In the past two months, Trump has survived two assassination attempts. The former president and Republican presidential candidate narrowly escaped death at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania in July when a bullet fired from about 150 yards away grazed his ear. Firing from a rooftop that inexplicably had not been protected by the Secret Service, the gunman managed to kill one rally attendee and wound two others before being shot and killed by a sniper.

The second attempted attack occurred on Sunday at Trump's golf course in West Palm Beach, Florida. A gunman aiming at Trump from a bush was spooked by Secret Service agents and arrested after fleeing the scene. The suspect, identified as Ryan Wesley Routh, had unsuccessfully attempted to join the Ukrainian military in 2022 and subsequently began a plan to recruit former Afghan commandos to fight for Kyiv.

Routh was questioned by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents upon his return to the United States that same year. According to Gaetz, agents “found his story so suspect that he was recruiting freedom fighters from all over the world to fight in Ukraine, and when they asked him how he financed it, he said, 'Well, my wife pays for it.'”

CBP referred Routh to the DHS Investigations Unit, which “even refused to investigate,” Gaetz continued. “They just stopped the man and let him in. And we have a lot of questions about that.”

With two assassins coming within firing range of Trump, Gaetz said some of his Republican colleagues “have not ruled out the possibility that there is a mole within the Secret Service providing information about vulnerabilities.”

“I have not seen any evidence of that,” the Florida Republican clarified, “but I have colleagues who are very, very knowledgeable about this and who say that given some of the anomalies and the circumstances here, they cannot rule it out.”

(RT.com)