Former President of The United States and current candidate for the November polls, Donald J. Trump, have reportedly survived another assassination attempt, this time, at his golf resort in Palm Beach, Florida.
The Secret Service said its agents were accompanying Trump on the golf course, when one who was securing holes ahead of Trump spotted a gun barrel in some bushes near the property line.
Multiple agents engaged the gunman and fired at least four rounds at him. The gunman then dropped his rifle, two backpacks, a Go Pro camera and other items and fled in a black Nissan car.
Law enforcement officials said the man who pointed the rifle and was arrested is Ryan Wesley Routh.
Local authorities said the gunman was about 400 yards to 500 yards away from Trump and hiding in shrubbery while the former president was playing a round of golf at Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach.
Bradshaw, the Palm Beach County sheriff, said that when people get into the shrubbery around the course, “they’re pretty much out of sight”. Bradshaw said the entire golf course would have been lined with law enforcement if Trump were the sitting president, but because he’s not, “security is limited to the areas the Secret Service deems possible”.
In an email to supporters, Trump said: “There were gunshots in my vicinity, but before rumors start spiraling out of control, I wanted you to hear this first: I AM SAFE AND WELL!”
US Vice President and Trump’s Democratic opponent in the presidential election, posted on X that she had been briefed on the reports of gunshots fired.
“I am glad he is safe. Violence has no place in America.”
