Sen. Ron Johnson’s (R-WI) meticulously detailed approach to fighting Joe Biden’s border crisis may have saved Donald Trump’s life Saturday.
In an exclusive interview with Breitbart News from the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, Johnson detailed the series of events that began with him giving Trump an immigration chart and ended with Trump narrowly avoiding an assassination attempt.
Trump turned to point to Johnson’s chart the moment an assassin fired a bullet at his head, resulting in the bullet striking Trump in the ear and avoiding a fatal shot.
“A little serendipity, or God works in mysterious ways,” Johnson described the divinely orchestrated circumstances.
Johnson told Breitbart how he began compiling border security data into his often-updated chart that has become ubiquitous on Capitol Hill for reporters, staff, and members seeking the latest information on the border crisis.
“Since I became chairman of Homeland Security, first of all, we held some, like 36 hearings on different aspects of illegal immigration,” he said. “And one of the things I started doing is I started charting the number of people being encountered on our Southwest border on a monthly basis [and] average per day.”
Johnson’s chart eventually caught Trump’s eye.
“I had an opportunity to ride on the plane with President Trump from Florida, up to the Green Bay rally, beginning of April, I brought a bunch of the things I wanted to show him,” he told Breitbart. “That was one of them. I showed him the chart, he liked it, said send it to my guys.”
He continued, “He used it that day. And he’s been using it ever since. And that’s the chart that for whatever reason, he felt compelled to look at that precise moment. It’s just really unbelievable.”
Rep. Ronny Jackson (R-TX), who served in the White House as Trump’s doctor and frequently speaks with Trump, said Trump himself credits Johnson’s chart and the Border Patrol for saving his life. Trump himself has spoken little publicly since the incident.
Trump will address the RNC Thursday night in a highly anticipated address to the nation.
Johnson, the former top Republican on the Senate Homeland Security and Government Oversight Committee, is one of the Senate’s most skilled investigators and made clear he will lead the push for Congressional investigations into the Secret Service failures that enabled the assassin to fire at Trump.
“I’m dedicated to finding out,” he said of learning how such a failure could occur. “We in Congress don’t have the type of investigatory capability as the agency, so we’re gonna have to let them do their investigation. I’ve already written a letter demanding they preserve all records, before and after. We will have to hold oversight over their investigations – I don’t trust them any further than I can throw them.”
He made clear the investigation must be thorough for the American people to get the answers they deserve,