Secret Service Spots Gun Pointed at Trump While He Was Golfing and Fires First… Trump Is Safe
The suspect is Ryan Wesley Ruth from Hawaii… Criticizing Trump-Biden on SNS
Harris: “There is no place for violence in America”… Trump: “I will never give in”
A second assassination attempt has been made against former US President Donald Trump, the Republican presidential candidate. It comes just over two months after the first assassination attempt, in which a gunman pierced his right ear during a campaign rally. Although former President Trump was not injured, there are speculations that the presidential election landscape could be shaken up again by this incident, which occurred just 50 days before the election.
According to the Secret Service (SS), which is in charge of protecting former President Trump, and local police, a shooting occurred around 1:30 p.m. (local time) on the 15th near Trump International Golf Club, owned by Trump, in West Palm Beach, Florida.
While former President Trump was playing golf, a Secret Service agent who was checking the security of the golf course ahead of the former President Trump found the gun barrel sticking out of the fence and bushes of the golf course and fired. The suspect, who was shot 4 to 6 times, fled the scene in a black vehicle, but was caught on the highway and arrested.
Former President Trump, who was playing golf a hole behind the golf course when the shooting occurred, immediately evacuated to his Mar-a-Lago resort. “Despite the gunfire nearby, President Trump is safe,” Trump campaign spokesman Stephen Cheng said in a statement.
Authorities who arrested the suspect are investigating the shooting as an attempted assassination of a presidential candidate. The FBI said in a statement that it was “investigating what appears to be an assassination attempt on former President Trump.”
The Associated Press and other news agencies reported, citing investigative authorities, that the suspect who pointed a rifle at former President Trump was Ryan Wesley Roose (58). Roose is known to have graduated from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, moved to Hawaii in 2018, and currently runs a warehouse construction company.
Ruth has taken to social media to criticize politicians, including former Presidents Trump and Joe Biden, and has also supported Trump’s rivals in the Republican presidential primary, Nikki Haley and Vivek Ramaswamy. He has also posted that he wants to buy a rocket from Elon Musk, founder of the private space company SpaceX, and “put a warhead on a rocket and end Vladimir Putin in his bunker at his Black Sea mansion,” and that he wants to fight on the front lines in Ukraine.
According to investigators, in the bushes where Ruth was, they found an AK-47-type rifle with a scope, two backpacks containing ceramic tiles, and a GoPro camera that appeared to be used to film the scene. Palm Beach County Sheriff Rick Bradshaw said, “The suspect and former President Trump were about 300 to 500 yards (about 274 to 457 meters), which is not a long distance for a scoped rifle.”
The White House said President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris were briefed on the incident and were relieved to hear that the former president was safe. “I’m glad he’s safe,” Harris said on social media. “There is no place for violence in America.”
But political fallout seems inevitable as another assassination attempt has occurred just 64 days after the shooting at an outdoor campaign rally in Pennsylvania on July 13, just before the Republican National Convention that officially nominated former President Trump as the presidential candidate. In an email to supporters sent shortly after the shooting, the former President Trump said, “Nothing will slow me down. I will never give in.”
Some Republicans have argued that the incident is a result of the criminal prosecution of former President Trump. “This dirty investigation into Trump is dangerous and must stop,” said Senator Rick Scott, a Republican.
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