President Donald Trump Weighs In on Nancy Guthrie Investigation Amid Criticism of Local Sheriff

President Donald Trump weighed in on the Nancy Guthrie investigation after a new report raised concerns over Pima County Sheriff’s Department’s methods.

“Some people haven’t liked the way the local community is running it. They haven’t liked the way the sheriff’s run it,” Trump, 80, told reporters inside Air Force One, per reporting by Fox News on Sunday, August 2. The president’s comments regarding Sheriff Chris Nanos come after The Wall Street Journal published an article one day prior that listed possible mistakes made by Nanos and his team.

“But we would like to give them the benefit of the doubt. We’re there anytime they need us as well. It’s a terrible thing,” Trump continued. The president also confirmed that the FBI are currently “involved to an extent” despite the “local community really [running]” the investigation.

The Wall Street Journal’s report — published six months after the 84-year-old mother of Today host Savannah Guthrie was kidnapped from her bedroom in Tucson’s Catalina Foothills — stated that Pima County Sheriff’s Department’s investigation “failed to seal off the property with police tape to protect sensitive crime-scene evidence, allowing reporters, livestreamers, and Amazon and pizza delivery drivers entry to the porch.”

Some of that evidence includes the dried blood that was found on Nancy’s front porch that was later confirmed to be hers, and, per the report, is now believed to be connected to her abduction.

Trump has publicly commented on Nancy’s disappearance, and the FBI’s involvement throughout the investigation, multiple times. During a June 23 statement, shared via social media by Scripps News, the president shared his hope for locating her. “I mean, Savannah’s gone through a rough — that family’s gone through hell. I hope they find her,” he told members of the press at the time.