Trump ‘Safe’ after shots fired at Golf Course in apparent assassination attempt

Just two months after an attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump in July during a rally in Pennsylvania, another apparent attempt on the Republican presidential nominee’s life was foiled by authorities on Sunday at Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Florida, US media reported.

Trump was unharmed, and a suspect who fled the scene was arrested. Politicians across the spectrum have condemned the attack, and law enforcement officials are investigating.

Suspect in apparent Trump assassination attempt, Ryan Wesley Routh has been arrested and produced before the Federal Court in Florida with shackled hands and feet. Routh is wearing dark prison scrubs, and his feet and hands are shackled. He has been escorted to a holding area to await his appearance.

The CNN said “Federal prosecutors have not yet announced what charges Routh will face”. He was taken into custody Sunday after being stopped on the highway following the shooting incident.

Acting US Secret Service Director Ronald Rowe plans to remain in Florida “indefinitely” as the investigation into an apparent second assassination attempt of former President Donald Trump plays out, according to USSS spokesperson Anthony Guglielmi.

Rowe will also meet with local law enforcement today and then do a walk-through of the golf course this afternoon, Guglielmi told CNN on Monday.

He was appointed to the position on July 23, after Kimberly Cheatle resigned after Trump was shot in the ear in an attempted assassination.

Trump and Rowe will meet today in Florida this afternoon, two sources familiar with the matter told CNN.

The man detained in Sunday’s apparent assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump was so calm when he was stopped it was “perplexing,” the sheriff of Martin County, Florida, recalled.

“His facial affect was so flat. His demeanor was relaxed,” Sheriff William Snyder told CNN on Monday morning. “I honestly thought it looked like somebody that had just left the church picnic and was on his way home.”

Despite the commotion surrounding his apprehension – the area “crawling with law enforcement … team (hat had gotten out their rifles, helicopter, I-95 shut down, a bomb dog” – the man never even asked why he got pulled over, Snyder said.

“He was just calm, really, as if he was going for dinner,” the sheriff said.

The FBI said it is investigating what appears to be an attempted assassination of Donald Trump at his Florida golf club Sunday, the second time in two months there’s been an apparent attempt on his life. Trump was not harmed in the incident, his campaign said.

A Secret Service agent spotted a rifle sticking out of a fence along the golf club perimeter Sunday and engaged the suspect, the Palm Beach County sheriff said Sunday.

As the probe continues, Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris are pressing on with their campaigns less than eight weeks until Election Day. Trump will unveil a cryptocurrency business at his Florida estate today, while Harris participates in a roundtable discussion with the Teamsters union in Washington, DC.