[🇺🇸] Trump Assassination - Official Discussion Thread

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Trump rally shooter's duffel bag and range finder first sparked suspicions, sources say

New details have emerged about the suspected shooter at former President Donald Trump's rally over the weekend.

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New details have emerged about the suspected shooter at former President Donald Trump's rally over the weekend, including what first brought Thomas Matthew Crooks under suspicion.

Multiple law enforcement sources confirmed to ABC News that suspicions about the suspect were first aroused at the site by other attendees when they spotted him with a range finder and duffel bag.

Attendees then notified law enforcement, according to sources.

The suspect, who was 20, had two cell phones -- one on him and a second one found at his home, sources said.

 

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American politics is real dirty. From the Lewinsky scandal to the assassination attempt on Trump

 

[Lulldapull]

Trump rally shooter's duffel bag and range finder first sparked suspicions, sources say

New details have emerged about the suspected shooter at former President Donald Trump's rally over the weekend.

abcnews.go.com

New details have emerged about the suspected shooter at former President Donald Trump's rally over the weekend, including what first brought Thomas Matthew Crooks under suspicion.

Multiple law enforcement sources confirmed to ABC News that suspicions about the suspect were first aroused at the site by other attendees when they spotted him with a range finder and duffel bag.

Attendees then notified law enforcement, according to sources.

The suspect, who was 20, had two cell phones -- one on him and a second one found at his home, sources said.

Three days ago, the US establishment tried pinning this on Iran mumbling that Iran's somehow brainwashed the shooter over the years, thats why hes done it......lol

 

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I think its wrong to commit murder. I wonder why anyone would want to assassinate Trump

 

[Saif]

Trump safe after apparent assassination attempt, person in custody

Donald Trump was the target of an apparent assassination attempt Sunday in Florida, the FBI said, with the Republican presidential candidate's campaign and law enforcement reporting he was safe and unharmed.

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Trump safe after apparent assassination attempt, person in custody
Agence France-Presse. West Palm Beach, United States 16 September, 2024, 04:39

Republican presidential nominee, former US President Donald Trump gestures at a press conference at Trump National Golf Club Los Angeles on September 13, 2024 in Rancho Palos Verdes, California.

Donald Trump was the target of an apparent assassination attempt Sunday in Florida, the FBI said, with the Republican presidential candidate's campaign and law enforcement reporting he was safe and unharmed.

The US Secret Service confirmed one or more of its agents ‘opened fire on a gunman’ located near the boundary of Trump's golf course, and that an ‘AK-47 style rifle’ with a scope was recovered along with a GoPro video camera.

The suspect escaped in a black car but a witness helped police identify the vehicle and authorities tracked it down.

‘We have somebody in custody right now that is a potential suspect,’ Palm Beach County Sheriff Ric Bradshaw told a press conference.

Trump had been golfing at his course in West Palm Beach, Florida, not far from his Mar-a-Lago residence, when the shooter was spotted a hole ahead of him, Bradshaw said.

‘President Trump is safe following gunshots in his vicinity,’ his campaign spokesman Steven Cheung said in a statement.

The unnerving incident appears to mark the second time in as many months that Trump has been the target of a gunman. The former president was wounded in the ear on July 13 as he was speaking at an outdoor rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.

Authorities who addressed Sunday's press conference did not confirm whether a gunman actually fired in the direction of the former president, but Secret Service agents did engage the suspect.

‘We are not sure right now if the individual was able to take a shot at our agents,’ said Rafael Barros of the Secret Service.

Rifle barrel sticking out

The Federal Bureau of Investigation said it is ‘investigating what appears to be an attempted assassination of former President Trump.’

Sheriff Bradshaw said Secret Service personnel doing protective work on the course as Trump played golf spotted ‘this rifle barrel sticking out of the fence and immediately engaged that individual, at which time the individual took off.’

He said the suspect was set up probably between 300 and 500 yards (275 to 455 meters) away, but ‘with a rifle and a scope like that, that's not a long distance.’

Sheriff William Snyder of neighboring Martin County said on CNN that the potential suspect who was stopped by law enforcement had ‘a relatively calm, flat affect. He was not displaying a lot of emotions.’

Law enforcement were launching a sweeping investigation and intense focus will come down on the arrested suspect, but as of Sunday afternoon there was no indication of a motive for the attempted assassination.

The incident came amid heightened concern for the safety of both candidates.

The White House quickly issued a statement saying both President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, Trump's Democratic rival in the November election, had been briefed about the incident.

‘They are relieved to know that he is safe,’ the statement said.

Harris herself responded to say she was relieved a tragedy was avoided.

‘I have been briefed on reports of gunshots fired near former President Trump and his property in Florida, and I am glad he is safe,’ she said. ‘Violence has no place in America.’

The US Secret Service, tasked with protecting presidents, former presidents and other dignitaries, faced criticism after the Pennsylvania incident.

Kimberly Cheatle, the head of the agency, resigned amid the ensuing scrutiny, and at least five Secret Service agents were placed on administrative leave.

Cheatle acknowledged in her letter of resignation that the agency ‘fell short’ of its mission to protect the nation's leaders.​

 

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Apparent assassination attempt on Trump: Five things to know

Authorities on Monday charged a man suspected of plotting to assassinate Donald Trump with federal gun crimes after shots were fired at the former US president's Florida golf course

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Apparent assassination attempt on Trump: Five things to know

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Authorities on Monday charged a man suspected of plotting to assassinate Donald Trump with federal gun crimes after shots were fired at the former US president's Florida golf course.

Here are five things to know about the incident.

What happened?

At approximately 1:30pm (1730 GMT) on Sunday, a US Secret Service agent noticed the barrel of a rifle pointing out of shrubbery on the Trump International Golf Course in West Palm Beach.

Agents, who were deployed in a moving security bubble one or two holes ahead of the former president, "engaged" an individual, the US Secret Service's Rafael Barros said, with the suspect fleeing.

Trump was "between 300 and 500 yards (meters)" away, Sheriff Ric Bradshaw said.

Police recovered a loaded semi-automatic rifle equipped with a scope, two backpacks, and a GoPro camera from the scene, according to the criminal complaint submitted Monday.

"With a rifle and a scope like that, that's not a long distance," said Bradshaw, referring to the distance between the recovered gun and Trump.

The arrest

About 45 minutes later, police apprehended a suspect after receiving information from a witness who reported a man fleeing in a black vehicle.

It was identified by its registration information and spotted on the I-95 highway as it entered adjacent Martin County.

Authorities pulled over the car -- whose tags belonged to a different, stolen, vehicle -- and detained the suspect.

US media reported the man was unarmed and calm when taken into custody.

Phone records showed he had been waiting in the shrubbery overnight, according to the criminal complaint.

Who is the suspect?

Police identified the would-be attacker as Ryan Wesley Routh, whom AFP interviewed in Kyiv in 2022, where he had travelled to support the war effort against Russia.

Routh, 58, is reportedly a builder based in Hawaii, with an arrest record spanning decades and several states.

He regularly posted about politics and current events on social media, including criticism of Trump, US media said.

AFP interviewed Routh two years ago while he was taking part in a demonstration in support of Ukrainians trapped in a city under siege by Russian forces.

"Putin is a terrorist, and he needs to be ended, so we need everybody from around the world to stop what they are doing and come here now," he told AFP at the time.

Tense election

The incident appeared to be the second assassination attempt on Trump, after an attack at a rally in July that left him slightly wounded in his right ear, with one rally attendee killed.

Since then, Trump has moved most campaign events indoors and addresses audiences from behind a bulletproof screen.

His Democratic rival Kamala Harris has also taken to speaking from behind a screen.

Trump's political rhetoric has always been aggressive, but his 2024 campaign has increased the temperature, with a focus on the hot-button issue of immigration.

The Republican says there is an "invasion" of migrants, who he alleges -- without proof -- of being responsible for violent crimes, including murder, rape and robberies, in US cities.

Last week, the Ohio town of Springfield saw bomb threats called in after Trump riled his base against the town's 15,000 Haitian migrant residents, falsely accusing them of eating people's pets.

Secret Service in crosshairs

Sunday's drama brings the spotlight back on the US Secret Service, which is tasked with the security of sitting and former US presidents.

On July 13, a shooter set up on a roof 130 yards from the president and fired at least eight times, raising questions about the Secret Service's competence and resulting in the resignation of the agency's director.

In Florida, the Secret Service had not secured the whole golf course, focusing on a zone around the president, Sheriff Bradshaw said.

"He's not the sitting president. If he was, we would have had this entire golf course surrounded," he said.

"But because he's not, security is limited to the areas that the Secret Service deems possible."

President Joe Biden called for Congress to authorize more personnel for the agency.

"The (Secret) Service needs more help," he told reporters.​