On Tuesday, Trump Jr., son of US President Donald Trump, held Ukraine responsible for “covering up” the person responsible for the July 2024 assassination attempt on his father.
“If you think Ukraine is doing a terrible job of not once thanking the United States for what we’ve done for them, the fact that they didn’t tell us that this lunatic was literally trying to buy weapons from them to kill my father seems like a much bigger problem,” Trump Jr. said in a post on Twitter. “I wonder why?”
He pointed out that the American magazine “Newsweek” had previously reported, citing an appeal filed by a Florida court to the US Department of Justice, that Roth, who is accused of attempting to assassinate Trump, had attempted to purchase an RPG anti-tank launcher and a Stinger missile a month before his arrest.
The magazine explained that “Roth was communicating via a secure messaging program with a person he believed to be from the Ukrainian side and had access to military weapons, adding that in one of the messages, the accused made a request in which he said: Send me an RPG launcher or a Stinger missile and I will see what I can do. (Trump) is not good for Ukraine.”
There have been two assassination attempts against Trump: the first occurred during his campaign speech in Pennsylvania on July 13, 2024, when Trump was shot in the ear, killing one person and wounding two others.
The US Secret Service said it killed the suspect, 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks, who fired multiple shots at the stage while hiding on the roof of an industrial building about 100 meters from the stage, outside the area where the event was taking place.
The second attempt occurred on September 15, 2024, outside Trump’s golf club in Florida.
Suspect Ryan Wesley Roth is believed to be obsessed with the conflict in Ukraine, and the Ukrainian Armed Forces have confirmed that he has tried numerous times to join their ranks.
