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The man arrested after pointing a rifle through a fence ringing former President Donald J. Trump’s golf course in Florida on Sunday never got off a shot, but appears to have remained undetected for nearly 12 hours before being spotted by a Secret Service agent who drove him off with a volley of gunfire, officials said on Monday.
For years, the Secret Service has meted out its limited protection resources based on the person the agency was protecting. The sitting president and vice president are assigned the highest amount of protection. Former presidents, major-party candidates and visiting dignitaries receive less.
Former President Donald Trump blamed Democrats on Monday for the latest attempt on his life, saying their rhetoric about him being a “threat to democracy” motivated a gunman at his property in Florida.
Donald Trump was reportedly in relatively good spirits on Sunday afternoon despite experiencing a second assassination attempt on his life – this time while playing a round of golf.
Former President Donald Trump was targeted in what “appears to be an attempted assassination” on Sunday afternoon, the FBI says. A suspect — Ryan Wesley Routh — is in custody after being identified as a man seen with a rifle at Trump’s golf club in West Palm Beach, Fla.
GOP Sen. Josh Hawley released a wide-ranging report Monday morning detailing the failures of the Secret Service in connection with the first assassination attempt against former President Trump in July, including new whistleblower allegations that are "highly damaging to the credibility" of the agency.
Former president Donald Trump thankfully avoided another assassination attempt on Sunday. This, of course, is the second known attempt on Trump’s life in as many months after he was shot at during a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.
With two assassination attempts on a presidential candidate in two months, the Secret Service spokesperson standing at the podium in West Palm Beach, Florida, summarized it best: “We live in dangerous times.”