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Usually, after a deadly emergency or an event that could have become one, the governor of the state where it happened somberly pledges to support the agency investigating it however he or she can.
This is not quite what happened in Florida after the apparent attempted assassination of Donald Trump on one of his golf courses over the weekend.
Instead, after the F.B.I. announced it was investigating the incident, Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida, a Republican, announced that his state would do its own research on what had happened.
“In my judgment, it’s...
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