Two weeks after the brazen assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump, the FBI still says it has no motive. And its director bizarrely claimed last week that he didn’t know whether it was actually a bullet that hit Trump’s ear.

The agency had to immediately retract this and admit that it was indeed a bullet. Are the feds really the last to know about the historic attack? Or just the last to admit it?

In any case, it is unlikely that the public attaches much value to the authorities’ statements.

The fact is that the public has gotten most of its information not from the federal bureaucracy, but from citizen videos and congressional detectives like Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri – who actually visited the site (despite the FBI “telling me to leave”), and receiving alarming reports of security lapses from whistleblowers.

“What I’ve been told by federal law enforcement is that they still don’t have a handle on the shooter’s motive, other than he clearly wanted to kill Trump. I mean, I think we pretty sure “That,” Hawley says sarcastically in an exclusive interview with The Heartlander. “So, whatever was going on in his mind, he clearly had the desire, the intent, the premeditation and then the near execution to kill President Trump.”

So far, Hawley has beaten most reasonably optimistic media outlets to breaking news about the assassination attempt. Whistleblowers first told his office that the former president’s rally was bizarrely considered a “loose” security meeting.

“For example,” Hawley said in a press release“detection dogs were not used to control access and detect threats in the usual manner. Individuals without proper identification were able to gain access to backstage areas. Department personnel did not properly monitor the security buffer around the stage and were not stationed around the event’s security perimeter at regular intervals.”

Hawley has also made headlines with the news that whistleblowers allege that an agent should be on the roof of the shooter that day, but it wasn’t because of the heat; and that the Secret Service turned down offers from a local law enforcement agency before the meeting to secure the site with drones.

On Thursday, Hawley introduced the Trump Assassination Attempt Transparency Act require the federal government to, as a press release states that“release all information related to the U.S. Intelligence Community’s preparations for the meeting, their interactions with the shooter, and their response to the July 13 assassination attempt.”

“It’s truly a miracle that Trump is still alive,” Hawley tells The Heartlander. “It’s a miracle that more rallygoers weren’t killed, because the security that day was terrible. It was a complete disaster. A lot of people are having to be fired or resign because of this.”

Something has to change quickly: Trump announced on friday He will return to re-host the rally at the field in Butler County, Pennsylvania, where he and three supporters were shot on July 13.

Does Hawley think the security failures at the time were the result of incompetence or was there more to it?

He won’t say exactly.

“Well, they were incompetent to say the least. And I can tell you, it’s at every level. You have the Secret Service, who didn’t really seem to have a handle on what was going on. They didn’t work well with local and state law enforcement.

“You have snipers who were supposed to be on the roof where the shooter was, but didn’t because they said it was too hot. You have law enforcement officers who were supposed to be patrolling the building where the shooter was, but didn’t because they said it was too hot.

“I mean, you can’t make this stuff up. And it’s not funny because the president got shot, a good American is dead, others are seriously injured. And I’m telling you, now that I’ve seen how little real security there was that day, it’s truly miraculous that more Americans weren’t killed at that rally.”

Judging from online rumors, many of Hawley’s voters and others across the country suspect the assassination plot was bigger than one man.

Is that what he hears from ordinary Missourians?

He won’t say exactly.

“Well, I think people are just desperate to get the truth. Just like me.

“I told the Secret Service this, I told the FBI this, that’s why I personally went to the site to do my own research: I don’t trust those people to be honest, to give us the facts. I don’t trust them to tell us the truth.

“They owe it to the American people. I don’t want to sit here years later and talk about this the way we still talk about JFK, where we don’t really know what happened and the government still won’t tell us everything they know.

“This cannot be. We must know everything: every detail, every fact, every failure. We must know. And I am determined to get it, while it takes.”