Former President Donald Trump was safe after the Secret Service fired at a gun-toting man outside Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Florida, Sunday, sources told Fox News.
Authorities are treating the case as a potential assassination attempt, and arrested a man sources identified as Ryan Wesley Routh. Routh was allegedly armed with a rifle when agents fired at him.
"This does not appear to be some random guy with an AK-47 walking outside Trump's club," the official added.
Authorities said Routh, who had a GoPro camera and two backpacks, shoved the muzzle of his rifle through a chain-link fence and may have been aiming at the president when agents fired at him.
Fox News' Lucas Tomlinson confirmed that the Secret Service opened fire after they saw the suspect raising the weapon. The suspect fled in a black Nissan, but was quickly apprehended, authorities said.
In less than a week after the first assassination attempt on Trump, the subject was pretty much dropped by leftist media outlets. Heck, it wasn't even mentioned during last week's presidential debate. The reason, of course, is obvious. Progs are concerned such an event would humanize Trump, thus the possibility of making him more electable. I'll be curious to see how long it takes for the media to move on from this particular incident.
Details are still emerging, but early indications are the shooter was mentally disturbed (gee, ya think?!?!) and that he has a history of donating to Democrat politicians.
If you wanna know why gun-grabbers are so focused on guns in the aftermath of spree killings/assassination attempts as opposed to acknowledging a serious mental health epidemic in America, it's because they might have to ponder how their fervent anti-Trump rhetoric is resulting in mentally disturbed people taking drastic action. Look, I get it. From a legal standpoint, the shooter and the shooter alone is the only person culpable here. However, if progs are going to continue this drumbeat of "speech is violence" while simultaneously referring to Trump as the biggest threat our republic has ever faced, then they need to take a long, hard look in the mirror. But they won't because gaslighting and slander are the only surefire tactics they have to win elections.
The people who shout about "stochastic terrorism" every time someone says something they dislike in public are curiously quiet this morning. It's almost as if that whole claim is a cynical, unidirectional attempt to shut up their opponents.
— Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke) September 16, 2024
It's no longer hyperbolic to suggest there should be serious concern whether or not Trump will even make it to Election Day.
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