MAGA lawmaker claims Trump assassination attempt was deep state 'inside job'

Following the attempt on President Donald Trump's life at the White House Correspondents' Association dinner, Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) argued that a 2024 assassination attempt in Pennsylvania was an "inside job" by the deep state.

Speaking to Luna on the Pod Force One podcast this week, New York Post columnist and host Miranda Devine revealed that the FBI had been "hostile" to her after she disputed reports that Pennsylvania shooter Thomas Crooks was not a Trump supporter.

"Thomas Crooks is dead," Devine noted. "There's no reason not to release all the information about the Butler assassination, but they are adamant that they've released everything and that while they haven't closed the investigation, there's nothing more to find. He acted alone. Do you buy that?"

Luna was skeptical.

"I think that there was a lot there, specifically what was interesting about the Butler assassination," Luna replied. "And I've said this before. I think that was intentional negligence."

"We actually had whistleblowers from within the Secret Service that came out that stated that, you know, they were basically not present or told to stand down," Luna continued. "The area that was left open was literally the perfect location to take a shot and basically assassinate someone. And then you have this aspect of the Biden administration that, you know, basically gave limited staffing to a former president with Secret Service."

"That to me that has all the marks of intelligence and I believe an inside job. That's literally what I think is the ultimate revelation of that," Luna added.

While Joe Biden was president at the time of the incident, Luna also placed blame on Trump for refusing to declassify details about the shooting.

"I think that, you know, the Butler assassination record and information is actually under the purview of release by President Trump himself," she observed. "And ultimately, we've also asked to see if we could obtain that information from the president. And so it'll ultimately be up to him."

"I think that, you know, these individuals that were radicalized were going after the people that are most influential in this country," the lawmaker added. "And I think aside from President Trump, Charlie Kirk was one of those people. And I do think that he was also on the trajectory to run for president."