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5 things to know about the apparent assassination attempt on Trump...
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Former President Donald Trump wasn’t harmed by Sunday’s apparent assassination attempt as he golfed near his Florida club. But the second attack on his life in barely two months is likely to further unsettle an election cycle already marked by upheaval.
The man suspected in the incident, Ryan Wesley Routh, camped outside the golf course in West Palm Beach with food and a rifle for nearly 12 hours, according to court documents filed Monday. He is accused of lying in wait for the former president before a Secret Service agent opened fire, thwarting the potential attack.
Here are five things to know about what happened and where the investigation stands:
Who is the suspect?
Routh, 58, faces charges of possessing a firearm despite a prior felony conviction and of possessing a firearm with an obliterated serial number. Additional charges are possible.
The suspect lived in North Carolina for most of his life before moving in 2018 to Kaaawa, Hawaii. He and his son operated a company building sheds, according to an archived version of the webpage for the business.
Routh appeared briefly in federal court in West Palm Beach on Monday. He had frequently posted on social media about the war in Ukraine and had a website where he sought to raise money and recruit volunteers to go to Kyiv to join the fight against the Russian invasion.
But Routh never served in the Ukrainian army or worked with its military, said Oleksandr Shahuri of the Foreigners Coordination Department of the Ukrainian Ground Forces Command.
Routh’s politics, meanwhile, don’t appear consistently aligned to one party or the other.
In June 2020, he offered a post on X directed at then-President Trump to say he would win reelection if he issued an executive order for the Justice Department to prosecute police misconduct. That year, he also posted in support of the Democratic presidential campaign of then-U.S. Rep. Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii, who has since left the party and endorsed Trump.
However, in recent years, his posts suggest he soured on Trump, and he expressed support for President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris.
In July, following the assassination attempt on Trump in Pennsylvania, Routh urged Biden and Harris to visit those wounded in the shooting at the hospital and to attend the funeral of a former fire chief killed at the rally.
Voter records show he registered as an unaffiliated voter in North Carolina in 2012, most recently voting in person during the state’s Democratic Party primary in March 2024. Federal campaign finance records show Routh made 19 small political donations totaling $140 since 2019 using his Hawaii address through a political action committee that supports Democratic candidates.
Records show that while living in Greensboro, North Carolina, Routh had multiple run-ins with law enforcement. The top FBI official in the Miami, Jeffrey B. Veltri, said Routh has numerous felony charges for stolen goods between 1997 and 2010. He also was the subject of a closed investigation in 2019 when someone reported he was a felon in possession of a firearm, but Veltri said the tipster would not confirm making the report.
Routh was convicted in 2002 of possessing a weapon of mass destruction, according to online North Carolina Department of Adult Correction records.
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How did this happen?
Authorities spotted a firearm poking out of shrubbery on the West Palm Beach golf course around 400 to 500 yards from where Trump was playing. As the former president was moving through the fifth hole’s fairway, an agent who was visually sweeping the area of the sixth hole’s green saw the subject, armed with what he perceived to be a rifle, and immediately discharged his firearm, said acting Director Ronald Rowe Jr. of the U.S. Secret Service.
Rowe said Routh “did not have a line of sight to the former president” and did not fire at Secret Service agents before fleeing.
Routh sped away before being captured in a neighboring county. Body camera footage of Routh’s arrest showed him walking backward with his hands over his head on the side of a road before being handcuffed and led away.
The suspect is believed to have been positioned at the tree line of the golf course from about 1:59 a.m. to 1:31 p.m. Sunday. A digital camera, a loaded SKS-style rifle with a scope and a plastic bag containing food were recovered from the area.
Trump’s protective detail has been higher than some of his peers because of his high visibility and his campaign to seek the White House again. His security was bolstered days before the July 13 assassination attempt in Pennsylvania because of a threat on Trump’s life from Iran, U.S. officials said.
What has Trump said since?
Trump initially posted, “I AM SAFE AND WELL!” and subsequently praised the Secret Service for protecting him.
But the former president pivoted Monday to the politics surrounding the incident, claiming — without evidence — that Biden and Harris comments that he is a threat to democracy had inspired the latest attempt on his life.
“Their rhetoric is causing me to be shot at,” Trump told Fox News Digital. In a subsequent post on his social media site Monday, Trump wrote that the left “has taken politics in our Country to a whole new level of Hatred, Abuse, and Distrust.” He said “it will only get worse,” then veered into comments about immigration, even though there is no evidence immigrants were involved in the incident.
The former president made those comments despite his own long history of inflammatory campaign rhetoric and advocacy for jailing or prosecuting his political enemies.
What are Biden and Harris saying?
Harris, Trump’s Democratic opponent in the presidential election, posted on X that she was “glad he is safe. Violence has no place in America.”
Biden also avoided politics in his reaction. He said Monday that the Secret Service “needs more help” and urging Congress to provide additional resources to help the agency.
“America has suffered too many times the tragedy of an assassin’s bullet,” Biden said at the start of an address to the National HBCU Week Conference in Philadelphia. “It solves nothing. It just tears the country apart. We must do everything we can to prevent it and never give it any oxygen.”
What’s next?
Trump hasn’t announced any changes to his schedule and is speaking live on X on Monday night from his Mar-a-Lago resort to launch his sons’ crypto platform. Harris met with the International Brotherhood of Teamsters at the 1.3 million-member group’s headquarters in Washington.
Still, a presidential race already rocked by Biden giving up his reelection bid and the first attack on Trump now is being further shaped by a second one. The leaders of a congressional bipartisan task force investigating Trump’s Pennsylvania shooting said they have requested a briefing by the Secret Service.
“We are thankful that the former President was not harmed, but remain deeply concerned about political violence and condemn it in all of its forms,” Reps. Mike Kelly, R-Pa., and Jason Crow, D-Colo., said in a statement.
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WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Former President Donald Trump wasn’t harmed by Sunday’s apparent assassination attempt as he golfed near his Florida club. But the second attack on his life in barely two months is likely to further unsettle an election cycle already marked by upheaval.
The man suspected in the incident, Ryan Wesley Routh, camped outside the golf course in West Palm Beach with food and a rifle for nearly 12 hours, according to court documents filed Monday. He is accused of lying in wait for the former president before a Secret Service agent opened fire, thwarting the potential attack.
Here are five things to know about what happened and where the investigation stands:
Who is the suspect?
Routh, 58, faces charges of possessing a firearm despite a prior felony conviction and of possessing a firearm with an obliterated serial number. Additional charges are possible.
The suspect lived in North Carolina for most of his life before moving in 2018 to Kaaawa, Hawaii. He and his son operated a company building sheds, according to an archived version of the webpage for the business.
Routh appeared briefly in federal court in West Palm Beach on Monday. He had frequently posted on social media about the war in Ukraine and had a website where he sought to raise money and recruit volunteers to go to Kyiv to join the fight against the Russian invasion.
But Routh never served in the Ukrainian army or worked with its military, said Oleksandr Shahuri of the Foreigners Coordination Department of the Ukrainian Ground Forces Command.
Routh’s politics, meanwhile, don’t appear consistently aligned to one party or the other.
In June 2020, he offered a post on X directed at then-President Trump to say he would win reelection if he issued an executive order for the Justice Department to prosecute police misconduct. That year, he also posted in support of the Democratic presidential campaign of then-U.S. Rep. Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii, who has since left the party and endorsed Trump.
However, in recent years, his posts suggest he soured on Trump, and he expressed support for President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris.
In July, following the assassination attempt on Trump in Pennsylvania, Routh urged Biden and Harris to visit those wounded in the shooting at the hospital and to attend the funeral of a former fire chief killed at the rally.
Voter records show he registered as an unaffiliated voter in North Carolina in 2012, most recently voting in person during the state’s Democratic Party primary in March 2024. Federal campaign finance records show Routh made 19 small political donations totaling $140 since 2019 using his Hawaii address through a political action committee that supports Democratic candidates.
Records show that while living in Greensboro, North Carolina, Routh had multiple run-ins with law enforcement. The top FBI official in the Miami, Jeffrey B. Veltri, said Routh has numerous felony charges for stolen goods between 1997 and 2010. He also was the subject of a closed investigation in 2019 when someone reported he was a felon in possession of a firearm, but Veltri said the tipster would not confirm making the report.
Routh was convicted in 2002 of possessing a weapon of mass destruction, according to online North Carolina Department of Adult Correction records.
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How did this happen?
Authorities spotted a firearm poking out of shrubbery on the West Palm Beach golf course around 400 to 500 yards from where Trump was playing. As the former president was moving through the fifth hole’s fairway, an agent who was visually sweeping the area of the sixth hole’s green saw the subject, armed with what he perceived to be a rifle, and immediately discharged his firearm, said acting Director Ronald Rowe Jr. of the U.S. Secret Service.
Rowe said Routh “did not have a line of sight to the former president” and did not fire at Secret Service agents before fleeing.
Routh sped away before being captured in a neighboring county. Body camera footage of Routh’s arrest showed him walking backward with his hands over his head on the side of a road before being handcuffed and led away.
The suspect is believed to have been positioned at the tree line of the golf course from about 1:59 a.m. to 1:31 p.m. Sunday. A digital camera, a loaded SKS-style rifle with a scope and a plastic bag containing food were recovered from the area.
Trump’s protective detail has been higher than some of his peers because of his high visibility and his campaign to seek the White House again. His security was bolstered days before the July 13 assassination attempt in Pennsylvania because of a threat on Trump’s life from Iran, U.S. officials said.
What has Trump said since?
Trump initially posted, “I AM SAFE AND WELL!” and subsequently praised the Secret Service for protecting him.
But the former president pivoted Monday to the politics surrounding the incident, claiming — without evidence — that Biden and Harris comments that he is a threat to democracy had inspired the latest attempt on his life.
“Their rhetoric is causing me to be shot at,” Trump told Fox News Digital. In a subsequent post on his social media site Monday, Trump wrote that the left “has taken politics in our Country to a whole new level of Hatred, Abuse, and Distrust.” He said “it will only get worse,” then veered into comments about immigration, even though there is no evidence immigrants were involved in the incident.
The former president made those comments despite his own long history of inflammatory campaign rhetoric and advocacy for jailing or prosecuting his political enemies.
What are Biden and Harris saying?
Harris, Trump’s Democratic opponent in the presidential election, posted on X that she was “glad he is safe. Violence has no place in America.”
Biden also avoided politics in his reaction. He said Monday that the Secret Service “needs more help” and urging Congress to provide additional resources to help the agency.
“America has suffered too many times the tragedy of an assassin’s bullet,” Biden said at the start of an address to the National HBCU Week Conference in Philadelphia. “It solves nothing. It just tears the country apart. We must do everything we can to prevent it and never give it any oxygen.”
What’s next?
Trump hasn’t announced any changes to his schedule and is speaking live on X on Monday night from his Mar-a-Lago resort to launch his sons’ crypto platform. Harris met with the International Brotherhood of Teamsters at the 1.3 million-member group’s headquarters in Washington.
Still, a presidential race already rocked by Biden giving up his reelection bid and the first attack on Trump now is being further shaped by a second one. The leaders of a congressional bipartisan task force investigating Trump’s Pennsylvania shooting said they have requested a briefing by the Secret Service.
“We are thankful that the former President was not harmed, but remain deeply concerned about political violence and condemn it in all of its forms,” Reps. Mike Kelly, R-Pa., and Jason Crow, D-Colo., said in a statement.
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Second Trump assassination scare sparks more security concerns...
The second assassination attempt on Donald Trump sparked calls from President Joe Biden and lawmakers to bolster the Secret Service protection for the former president with either more resources, strategic changes or more agency oversight.
Senators on the appropriations panel that oversees the Secret Service funding, in the wake of the first attempt in July, already had asked for information about whether the agency needed more money to protect candidates in the 2024 election.
Biden suggested the agency needed more resources Monday morning, when the suspect in Sunday’s attempted assassination made a court appearance in Florida on two firearm charges.
“One thing I want to make clear is: the Service needs more help,” Biden told reporters. “And I think Congress should respond to their need.”
House Majority Leader Steve Scalise of Louisiana, who was shot in 2017 during a congressional baseball game practice, was among House Republicans who called for protection for Trump to match the current president.
“Authorities just acknowledged if President Trump was president, they’d do more to protect him,” Scalise wrote on social media. “This must change. There have been TWO attempts on Trump’s life. Secret Service must up their level of protection of him to their FULL capabilities — including expanding the perimeter.”
Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer of New York said Monday he’s willing to consider a Secret Service funding boost as part of a spending resolution to avert a government shutdown at the end of the month.
“Congress has a responsibility to ensure the Secret Service and all law enforcement have the resources they need to do their job,” Schumer said in a floor speech. “So as we continue the appropriations process, if the Secret Service is in need of more resources, we are… prepared to provide it for them, possibly in the upcoming funding agreement.”
Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., said Monday he wants the Secret Service to step up its efforts, but denied more funding was the answer.
“President Trump needs the most coverage of anyone,” Johnson said on Fox & Friends. “He’s the most attacked, he’s the most threatened, even probably more than when he was in the Oval Office. So we are demanding in the House that he have every asset available and we will make more available if necessary. I don’t think it’s a funding issue. I think it’s a manpower allocation.”
Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., on the other hand, posted on social media that the House should demand more information and put the question of more funding for the Secret Service on the floor without delay.
“Two assassination attempts in 60 days on a former President & the Republican nominee is unacceptable,” Khanna said. “The Secret Service must come to Congress tomorrow, tell us what resources are needed to expand the protective perimeter, & let’s allocate it in a bipartisan vote the same day.”
The fiscal 2025 Homeland Security appropriations bill already stalled in the Senate at least partially because of increased scrutiny of the Secret Service’s budget.
The Secret Service told the top Senate appropriators on homeland security — Democrat Christopher S. Murphy of Connecticut and Republican Katie Britt of Alabama — that the security failure at the first Trump assassination attempt in Butler, Pa., wasn’t the result of its budget, although the agency wouldn’t shut the door on the additional funds.
More information sought
Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., issued a report on Monday based on information he says he’s collected from whistleblowers saying the agency suffers from “a compounding pattern of negligence, sloppiness, and gross incompetence that goes back years.”
Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., sounded the alarm last Thursday when, after a closed-door meeting, he said the American public will be “shocked” and “appalled” when lawmakers release their interim report on the assassination attempt.
The bipartisan task force charged with examining the failure to protect Trump at the Butler rally — led by Reps. Mike Kelly, R-Pa., and Jason Crow, D-Colo. — issued a joint statement calling on the Secret Service to come before Congress to address the situation.
“We have requested a briefing with the U.S. Secret Service about what happened and how security responded,” Kelly and Crow said. “We are thankful that the former President was not harmed, but remain deeply concerned about political violence and condemn it in all of its forms.”
Meanwhile, Trump in the aftermath of the second attempt on his life during the election has placed the blame on Kamala Harris, accusing his Democratic opponent of dangerously elevating political rhetoric (an accusation frequently leveled at Trump himself).
Trump in a social media post on Monday blamed Democrats and Harris for creating the political environment that led to the attack on him, while also impugning the ABC News moderators in the recent debate he was widely seen to have lost.
“The Rhetoric, Lies, as exemplified by the false statements made by Comrade Kamala Harris during the rigged and highly partisan ABC Debate, and all of the ridiculous lawsuits specifically designed to inflict damage on Joe’s, then Kamala’s, Political Opponent, ME, has taken politics in our Country to a whole new level of Hatred, Abuse, and Distrust. Because of this Communist Left Rhetoric, the bullets are flying, and it will only get worse!” Trump said.
Harris, in her own statement, said she is “deeply disturbed by the possible assassination attempt of former President Trump today.”
“As we gather the facts, I will be clear: I condemn political violence,” Harris said. “We all must do our part to ensure that this incident does not lead to more violence.”
Arrest details
The man arrested in connection with the incident, Ryan Routh, made an initial appearance Monday in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida on gun charges — possession of a firearm by a felon and possession of a firearm with an obliterated serial number.
A Secret Service agent assigned to Trump’s detail was walking the perimeter of Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach and saw what appeared to be a rifle poking out of the tree line, according to a criminal complaint unsealed Monday.
The agent fired a gun in the direction of the rifle at about 1:31 p.m., and a witness saw a man flee the area and enter a Nissan sport utility vehicle that left the area at a high rate of speed, the complaint states.
Agents found a loaded rifle with a scope and an obliterated and unreadable serial number, along with a digital camera, a backpack and a plastic bag with food, the complaint states.
County officers stopped the Nissan and asked Routh if he knew why he was being stopped, and “he responded in the affirmative,” the complaint states. The license plate on the Nissan is registered to a 2012 white Ford truck and has been reported stolen, the complaint states.
The witness identified Routh as the man who got into the Nissan, and an investigation found Routh’s mobile phone was located Sunday in the vicinity of the gun from about 1:59 a.m. to 1:31 p.m., the complaint states.
Routh in North Carolina was convicted in 2002 of possession of a weapon of mass death and destruction and was convicted in 2010 of multiple counts of possession of stolen goods, which are both felonies, the complaint states.
By Chris Johnson
Posted September 16, 2024 at 3:46pm
John T. Bennett and David Lerman contributed to this report.
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Second Trump assassination scare sparks more security concerns...
The second assassination attempt on Donald Trump sparked calls from President Joe Biden and lawmakers to bolster the Secret Service protection for the former president with either more resources, strategic changes or more agency oversight.
Senators on the appropriations panel that oversees the Secret Service funding, in the wake of the first attempt in July, already had asked for information about whether the agency needed more money to protect candidates in the 2024 election.
Biden suggested the agency needed more resources Monday morning, when the suspect in Sunday’s attempted assassination made a court appearance in Florida on two firearm charges.
“One thing I want to make clear is: the Service needs more help,” Biden told reporters. “And I think Congress should respond to their need.”
House Majority Leader Steve Scalise of Louisiana, who was shot in 2017 during a congressional baseball game practice, was among House Republicans who called for protection for Trump to match the current president.
“Authorities just acknowledged if President Trump was president, they’d do more to protect him,” Scalise wrote on social media. “This must change. There have been TWO attempts on Trump’s life. Secret Service must up their level of protection of him to their FULL capabilities — including expanding the perimeter.”
Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer of New York said Monday he’s willing to consider a Secret Service funding boost as part of a spending resolution to avert a government shutdown at the end of the month.
“Congress has a responsibility to ensure the Secret Service and all law enforcement have the resources they need to do their job,” Schumer said in a floor speech. “So as we continue the appropriations process, if the Secret Service is in need of more resources, we are… prepared to provide it for them, possibly in the upcoming funding agreement.”
Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., said Monday he wants the Secret Service to step up its efforts, but denied more funding was the answer.
“President Trump needs the most coverage of anyone,” Johnson said on Fox & Friends. “He’s the most attacked, he’s the most threatened, even probably more than when he was in the Oval Office. So we are demanding in the House that he have every asset available and we will make more available if necessary. I don’t think it’s a funding issue. I think it’s a manpower allocation.”
Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., on the other hand, posted on social media that the House should demand more information and put the question of more funding for the Secret Service on the floor without delay.
“Two assassination attempts in 60 days on a former President & the Republican nominee is unacceptable,” Khanna said. “The Secret Service must come to Congress tomorrow, tell us what resources are needed to expand the protective perimeter, & let’s allocate it in a bipartisan vote the same day.”
The fiscal 2025 Homeland Security appropriations bill already stalled in the Senate at least partially because of increased scrutiny of the Secret Service’s budget.
The Secret Service told the top Senate appropriators on homeland security — Democrat Christopher S. Murphy of Connecticut and Republican Katie Britt of Alabama — that the security failure at the first Trump assassination attempt in Butler, Pa., wasn’t the result of its budget, although the agency wouldn’t shut the door on the additional funds.
More information sought
Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., issued a report on Monday based on information he says he’s collected from whistleblowers saying the agency suffers from “a compounding pattern of negligence, sloppiness, and gross incompetence that goes back years.”
Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., sounded the alarm last Thursday when, after a closed-door meeting, he said the American public will be “shocked” and “appalled” when lawmakers release their interim report on the assassination attempt.
The bipartisan task force charged with examining the failure to protect Trump at the Butler rally — led by Reps. Mike Kelly, R-Pa., and Jason Crow, D-Colo. — issued a joint statement calling on the Secret Service to come before Congress to address the situation.
“We have requested a briefing with the U.S. Secret Service about what happened and how security responded,” Kelly and Crow said. “We are thankful that the former President was not harmed, but remain deeply concerned about political violence and condemn it in all of its forms.”
Meanwhile, Trump in the aftermath of the second attempt on his life during the election has placed the blame on Kamala Harris, accusing his Democratic opponent of dangerously elevating political rhetoric (an accusation frequently leveled at Trump himself).
Trump in a social media post on Monday blamed Democrats and Harris for creating the political environment that led to the attack on him, while also impugning the ABC News moderators in the recent debate he was widely seen to have lost.
“The Rhetoric, Lies, as exemplified by the false statements made by Comrade Kamala Harris during the rigged and highly partisan ABC Debate, and all of the ridiculous lawsuits specifically designed to inflict damage on Joe’s, then Kamala’s, Political Opponent, ME, has taken politics in our Country to a whole new level of Hatred, Abuse, and Distrust. Because of this Communist Left Rhetoric, the bullets are flying, and it will only get worse!” Trump said.
Harris, in her own statement, said she is “deeply disturbed by the possible assassination attempt of former President Trump today.”
“As we gather the facts, I will be clear: I condemn political violence,” Harris said. “We all must do our part to ensure that this incident does not lead to more violence.”
Arrest details
The man arrested in connection with the incident, Ryan Routh, made an initial appearance Monday in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida on gun charges — possession of a firearm by a felon and possession of a firearm with an obliterated serial number.
A Secret Service agent assigned to Trump’s detail was walking the perimeter of Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach and saw what appeared to be a rifle poking out of the tree line, according to a criminal complaint unsealed Monday.
The agent fired a gun in the direction of the rifle at about 1:31 p.m., and a witness saw a man flee the area and enter a Nissan sport utility vehicle that left the area at a high rate of speed, the complaint states.
Agents found a loaded rifle with a scope and an obliterated and unreadable serial number, along with a digital camera, a backpack and a plastic bag with food, the complaint states.
County officers stopped the Nissan and asked Routh if he knew why he was being stopped, and “he responded in the affirmative,” the complaint states. The license plate on the Nissan is registered to a 2012 white Ford truck and has been reported stolen, the complaint states.
The witness identified Routh as the man who got into the Nissan, and an investigation found Routh’s mobile phone was located Sunday in the vicinity of the gun from about 1:59 a.m. to 1:31 p.m., the complaint states.
Routh in North Carolina was convicted in 2002 of possession of a weapon of mass death and destruction and was convicted in 2010 of multiple counts of possession of stolen goods, which are both felonies, the complaint states.
By Chris Johnson
Posted September 16, 2024 at 3:46pm
John T. Bennett and David Lerman contributed to this report.
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Gunman lurked for hours before Trump's last-minute game of golf
the gunman hid for nearly 12 hours in bushes before Donald Trump played an unscheduled game of golf at his oceanfront club in Florida – leaving locals stunned at what authorities say appears to be the second attempt to assassinate the former president in as many months.
It was hot and cloudy on Sunday afternoon when Trump and his good friend, real estate developer Steve Witkoff, arrived on the course of Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach.
The former president was on the fifth fairway at 13:31 EDT (17:31 GMT), an area adjacent to busy roads near Palm Beach International Airport, when a member of his protection detail spotted a rifle poking out of foliage by the sixth hole.
Trump - who was evacuated unharmed - recounted on Monday night that he heard “probably four or five” shots ring out in the near-distance.
A gunman hid for nearly 12 hours in bushes before Donald Trump played an unscheduled game of golf at his oceanfront club in Florida – leaving locals stunned at what authorities say appears to be the second attempt to assassinate the former president in as many months.
It was hot and cloudy on Sunday afternoon when Trump and his good friend, real estate developer Steve Witkoff, arrived on the course of Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach.
The former president was on the fifth fairway at 13:31 EDT (17:31 GMT), an area adjacent to busy roads near Palm Beach International Airport, when a member of his protection detail spotted a rifle poking out of foliage by the sixth hole.
Trump - who was evacuated unharmed - recounted on Monday night that he heard “probably four or five” shots ring out in the near-distance.
A quick-thinking Secret Service agent had opened fire in the direction of the suspect, who was about 300-500 yards away and did not have a clear line of sight to Trump, federal investigators said.
"Secret Service knew immediately it was bullets, and they grabbed me," said Trump during a live-streamed event on X, formerly Twitter, from his Mar-a-Lago resort.
"We got into the carts and we moved along pretty, pretty good. I was with an agent, and the agent did a fantastic job."
The gunman - who investigators say did not fire any shots - was concealed by the well-manicured shrubbery and tall palm trees that line the perimeter of the 27-hole course.
He had been lurking there on the public side of a fence since 01:59 local time on Sunday morning, according to mobile phone records, cited by federal officials.
The suspect was equipped with two digital cameras, a black plastic bag of food, an SKS-style semi-automatic rifle - a weapon with a range of nearly 440 yards - and a scope to magnify its lens.
The Republican presidential candidate’s last publicly scheduled campaign event had been on Saturday evening, on the other side of the country, in the state of Utah.
Residents say Trump spends almost every Sunday at the West Palm Beach golf club when he is not on the campaign trail.
But Secret Service director Ronald Rowe said on Monday that the former president was “not even really supposed to go there”, so agents had to put together a security plan at the last minute.
by Madeline Halpert, 49 minutes ago
BBC News online
the gunman hid for nearly 12 hours in bushes before Donald Trump played an unscheduled game of golf at his oceanfront club in Florida – leaving locals stunned at what authorities say appears to be the second attempt to assassinate the former president in as many months.
It was hot and cloudy on Sunday afternoon when Trump and his good friend, real estate developer Steve Witkoff, arrived on the course of Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach.
The former president was on the fifth fairway at 13:31 EDT (17:31 GMT), an area adjacent to busy roads near Palm Beach International Airport, when a member of his protection detail spotted a rifle poking out of foliage by the sixth hole.
Trump - who was evacuated unharmed - recounted on Monday night that he heard “probably four or five” shots ring out in the near-distance.
A gunman hid for nearly 12 hours in bushes before Donald Trump played an unscheduled game of golf at his oceanfront club in Florida – leaving locals stunned at what authorities say appears to be the second attempt to assassinate the former president in as many months.
It was hot and cloudy on Sunday afternoon when Trump and his good friend, real estate developer Steve Witkoff, arrived on the course of Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach.
The former president was on the fifth fairway at 13:31 EDT (17:31 GMT), an area adjacent to busy roads near Palm Beach International Airport, when a member of his protection detail spotted a rifle poking out of foliage by the sixth hole.
Trump - who was evacuated unharmed - recounted on Monday night that he heard “probably four or five” shots ring out in the near-distance.
A quick-thinking Secret Service agent had opened fire in the direction of the suspect, who was about 300-500 yards away and did not have a clear line of sight to Trump, federal investigators said.
"Secret Service knew immediately it was bullets, and they grabbed me," said Trump during a live-streamed event on X, formerly Twitter, from his Mar-a-Lago resort.
"We got into the carts and we moved along pretty, pretty good. I was with an agent, and the agent did a fantastic job."
The gunman - who investigators say did not fire any shots - was concealed by the well-manicured shrubbery and tall palm trees that line the perimeter of the 27-hole course.
He had been lurking there on the public side of a fence since 01:59 local time on Sunday morning, according to mobile phone records, cited by federal officials.
The suspect was equipped with two digital cameras, a black plastic bag of food, an SKS-style semi-automatic rifle - a weapon with a range of nearly 440 yards - and a scope to magnify its lens.
The Republican presidential candidate’s last publicly scheduled campaign event had been on Saturday evening, on the other side of the country, in the state of Utah.
Residents say Trump spends almost every Sunday at the West Palm Beach golf club when he is not on the campaign trail.
But Secret Service director Ronald Rowe said on Monday that the former president was “not even really supposed to go there”, so agents had to put together a security plan at the last minute.
by Madeline Halpert, 49 minutes ago
BBC News online
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if there is to be an increase to the Secret service and for more agents then you would think, the long-suffering average american taxpayer will be footing the costs. Monies associated would have to come from somewhere.
It would make sense to get rid of the SS and to merge with your F.B.I.
It would make sense to get rid of the SS and to merge with your F.B.I.
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BTW, where's that "preliminary" report that the SS claimed would be available in "60 days" in the congress meeting. It has been 64 days since the first assassination-attempt.
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If only America cared as much about school shootings as they do about the attempted assassination of the oxygen thief, Trump.
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Trump is funny here.
He says he s bigger than Elvis.
https://youtube.com/shorts/rnLIRkGVplU?si=BVFFnBoLyD0jV2yr
He says he s bigger than Elvis.
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Secret Service "Preliminary" report has been officially released as at 20 september.
Communication failures, Secret Service ‘complacency’ led to first Trump assassination attempt, agency finds
Communication breakdowns, technical issues and “complacency” among members of the Secret Service advance team left its agents unable to stop a gunman from opening fire on Donald Trump at a Pennsylvania rally in July, according to a report the agency released Friday.
Acting Secret Service Director Ronald Rowe said in a press conference that an unspecified number of agency personnel will face repercussions for the lapses that left one person dead and the former president and two others injured, though he declined to detail the possible punishments.
Rowe also repeatedly pledged a “paradigm shift” that would make the agency more “agile” in protecting the nation’s top politicians. But he warned that the agency is “burning through a lot of assets and resources” as it extends the same level of protection to Trump as the sitting president and vice president and called for more.
“We are not capitalizing on a crisis,” Rowe said. “We have finite resources, and we are stretching those resources to their maximum right now.”
The shooting in Butler left Trump’s campaign rattled and led to weeks of recriminations against the agency for failing to protect the president. Former Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle resigned following the Butler security breach and a tough July hearing before the House Oversight Committee, where Republican and Democratic lawmakers skewered the agency’s handling of the incident.
The five-page summary Secret Service released Friday — the full report is expected to be finalized in coming weeks — is one of several probes into the Pennsylvania shooting. The Department of Homeland Security has ordered an outside review of the incident, and a congressional investigation is ongoing.
It comes as the elite protection force is under fresh scrutiny after a possible second assassination attempt against the former president at his Florida golf club earlier this month. Trump has praised Secret Service for its handling of that incident. But his initial gratitude after Butler has given way to criticism of the agency’s blunders.
Findings from the Secret Service’s probe into the Pennsylvania shooting make clear that the agency knew the rally site — the Butler Farm Show grounds, selected by Trump’s staff to better accommodate “the large number of desired attendees” — presented a security “challenge.”
It cites “deficiencies” in communication between law enforcement, including that some local police were unaware there were two communications centers on the grounds and that Secret Service were not receiving their radio transmissions, and that details were being relayed outside of the agency’s network.
“The failure of personnel to broadcast via radio the description of the assailant, or vital information received from local law enforcement regarding a suspicious individual on the roof of the AGR complex, to all federal personnel at the Butler site inhibited the collective awareness of all Secret Service personnel,” the report said.
And it lays out how multiple law enforcement entities questioned the effectiveness of having a local tactical team stationed on the second floor of the building from which the 20-year-old shooter, Thomas Crooks, took aim at Trump — one that had no contact with Secret Service before the rally — “yet there was no follow-up discussion about modifying their position.” There was also no discussion with Secret Service about positioning the team atop the roof, even though local snipers were “apparently not opposed to that location.”
Authorities shot and killed Crooks shortly after he opened fire. The motive behind the shooting remains a mystery.
The agency also cited “technical difficulties” with its drone system that, if it had functioned properly, may have detected Crooks as he flew his drone near the rally site earlier in the day.
Rowe, who assumed control of the agency after Cheatle stepped down, said in a press conference Friday that Trump is now receiving the same level of protection as President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris. Security has also been elevated to “high levels” for Ohio Sen. JD Vance, who is Trump’s running mate, and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, who is Harris’, Rowe said.
But he said the agency needs more personnel, technical assets and equipment to sustain it — though he declined on Friday to publicly put a dollar amount on it as Congress debates additional funding.
Rowe also said the agency is on track to hire more than 400 special agents by the close of the fiscal year — a hiring blitz he deemed crucial ahead of the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, which Secret Service will be responsible for securing.
“I do believe that we are going to meet this” manpower challenge, Rowe said. “We have no choice.”
By Lisa Kashinsky
09/20/2024 03:53 PM EDT
Josh Gerstein contributed to this report. Material from The Associated Press was also used.
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/09/20/trump-assassination-attempt-secret-service-report-00180302
Communication failures, Secret Service ‘complacency’ led to first Trump assassination attempt, agency finds
Communication breakdowns, technical issues and “complacency” among members of the Secret Service advance team left its agents unable to stop a gunman from opening fire on Donald Trump at a Pennsylvania rally in July, according to a report the agency released Friday.
Acting Secret Service Director Ronald Rowe said in a press conference that an unspecified number of agency personnel will face repercussions for the lapses that left one person dead and the former president and two others injured, though he declined to detail the possible punishments.
Rowe also repeatedly pledged a “paradigm shift” that would make the agency more “agile” in protecting the nation’s top politicians. But he warned that the agency is “burning through a lot of assets and resources” as it extends the same level of protection to Trump as the sitting president and vice president and called for more.
“We are not capitalizing on a crisis,” Rowe said. “We have finite resources, and we are stretching those resources to their maximum right now.”
The shooting in Butler left Trump’s campaign rattled and led to weeks of recriminations against the agency for failing to protect the president. Former Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle resigned following the Butler security breach and a tough July hearing before the House Oversight Committee, where Republican and Democratic lawmakers skewered the agency’s handling of the incident.
The five-page summary Secret Service released Friday — the full report is expected to be finalized in coming weeks — is one of several probes into the Pennsylvania shooting. The Department of Homeland Security has ordered an outside review of the incident, and a congressional investigation is ongoing.
It comes as the elite protection force is under fresh scrutiny after a possible second assassination attempt against the former president at his Florida golf club earlier this month. Trump has praised Secret Service for its handling of that incident. But his initial gratitude after Butler has given way to criticism of the agency’s blunders.
Findings from the Secret Service’s probe into the Pennsylvania shooting make clear that the agency knew the rally site — the Butler Farm Show grounds, selected by Trump’s staff to better accommodate “the large number of desired attendees” — presented a security “challenge.”
It cites “deficiencies” in communication between law enforcement, including that some local police were unaware there were two communications centers on the grounds and that Secret Service were not receiving their radio transmissions, and that details were being relayed outside of the agency’s network.
“The failure of personnel to broadcast via radio the description of the assailant, or vital information received from local law enforcement regarding a suspicious individual on the roof of the AGR complex, to all federal personnel at the Butler site inhibited the collective awareness of all Secret Service personnel,” the report said.
And it lays out how multiple law enforcement entities questioned the effectiveness of having a local tactical team stationed on the second floor of the building from which the 20-year-old shooter, Thomas Crooks, took aim at Trump — one that had no contact with Secret Service before the rally — “yet there was no follow-up discussion about modifying their position.” There was also no discussion with Secret Service about positioning the team atop the roof, even though local snipers were “apparently not opposed to that location.”
Authorities shot and killed Crooks shortly after he opened fire. The motive behind the shooting remains a mystery.
The agency also cited “technical difficulties” with its drone system that, if it had functioned properly, may have detected Crooks as he flew his drone near the rally site earlier in the day.
Rowe, who assumed control of the agency after Cheatle stepped down, said in a press conference Friday that Trump is now receiving the same level of protection as President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris. Security has also been elevated to “high levels” for Ohio Sen. JD Vance, who is Trump’s running mate, and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, who is Harris’, Rowe said.
But he said the agency needs more personnel, technical assets and equipment to sustain it — though he declined on Friday to publicly put a dollar amount on it as Congress debates additional funding.
Rowe also said the agency is on track to hire more than 400 special agents by the close of the fiscal year — a hiring blitz he deemed crucial ahead of the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, which Secret Service will be responsible for securing.
“I do believe that we are going to meet this” manpower challenge, Rowe said. “We have no choice.”
By Lisa Kashinsky
09/20/2024 03:53 PM EDT
Josh Gerstein contributed to this report. Material from The Associated Press was also used.
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/09/20/trump-assassination-attempt-secret-service-report-00180302
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The Secret Service says it is currently operating with about 400 fewer employees than what Congress has authorized as the agency is facing fresh scrutiny in the wake of the second Trump assassination attempt, a report says.
The latest attempt on Trump’s life was thwarted on Sunday by a Secret Service agent who opened fire at an armed man stationed near the perimeter fence of the Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Florida. That suspect, Ryan Routh, was later tracked down and taken into custody.
On July 13, Former President Donald Trump was the target of an apparent assassination attempt at a rally in Butler, PA. The shooting happened just days before he was to accept the Republican nomination. Trump, who was shot in the ear, was surrounded by Secret Service and hurried to his SUV as he pumped his fist in a show of defiance.
The latest attempt on Trump’s life was thwarted on Sunday by a Secret Service agent who opened fire at an armed man stationed near the perimeter fence of the Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Florida. That suspect, Ryan Routh, was later tracked down and taken into custody.
On July 13, Former President Donald Trump was the target of an apparent assassination attempt at a rally in Butler, PA. The shooting happened just days before he was to accept the Republican nomination. Trump, who was shot in the ear, was surrounded by Secret Service and hurried to his SUV as he pumped his fist in a show of defiance.
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so where is the money going to come from to fund another 400 agents that Secret Service claims was promised by Congress?
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Man arrested near Trump rally had two guns and fake passports...
A man in illegal possession of a shotgun and a loaded handgun was arrested at an intersection near Donald Trump's rally in Coachella, California, on Saturday, police said.
The 49-year-old suspect, Vem Miller, was driving a black SUV when he was stopped at a security checkpoint by deputies, who located the two firearms and a "high-capacity magazine".
Mr Miller was then taken into custody "without incident", the Riverside County Sheriff's office said, and booked on possession of a loaded firearm and possession of a high-capacity magazine.
The US Secret Service said Trump “was not in any danger”, adding that the incident did not impact protective operations.
A local sheriff called the suspect a "lunatic" and his office added the encounter did not affect the safety of Trump or the rally's attendees.
Many questions remain unanswered.
While Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco said it was impossible to speculate about what was in the mind of the suspect, he said he "truly believed" that his officers had prevented a third assassination attempt.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gqyezwj7lo
A man in illegal possession of a shotgun and a loaded handgun was arrested at an intersection near Donald Trump's rally in Coachella, California, on Saturday, police said.
The 49-year-old suspect, Vem Miller, was driving a black SUV when he was stopped at a security checkpoint by deputies, who located the two firearms and a "high-capacity magazine".
Mr Miller was then taken into custody "without incident", the Riverside County Sheriff's office said, and booked on possession of a loaded firearm and possession of a high-capacity magazine.
The US Secret Service said Trump “was not in any danger”, adding that the incident did not impact protective operations.
A local sheriff called the suspect a "lunatic" and his office added the encounter did not affect the safety of Trump or the rally's attendees.
Many questions remain unanswered.
While Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco said it was impossible to speculate about what was in the mind of the suspect, he said he "truly believed" that his officers had prevented a third assassination attempt.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gqyezwj7lo
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'Without reform' to Secret Service 'another Butler can and will happen again': independent review
Four former law enforcement and national security officials made up the panel.
There were many mistakes made on the day of the July assassination attempt of former President Donald Trump by the Secret Service, but an independent review by the Department of Homeland Security revealed systemic issues within the organization and found that without reforms to the agency, "another Butler can and will happen again."
In the aftermath of the Butler, Pennsylvania, assassination attempt, DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas assigned a panel of four former law enforcement and national security officials to examine what went wrong, and how they recommend the Secret Service moves forward after the attempt on former president's life.
"The Secret Service does not perform at the elite levels needed to discharge its critical mission," the letter addressed to Secretary Mayorkas said, which was included in the report. "The Secret Service has become bureaucratic, complacent, and static even though risks have multiplied and technology has evolved."
On the independent panel are former DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano, former Deputy Attorney General Mark Filip, former Maryland State Police Superintendent David Mitchell and former Deputy National Security Adviser Fran Townsend.
The scathing 35-page report from the independent panel said the findings illustrated "deeper concerns" within the U.S. Secret Service.
"The Panel has observed that many of the Secret Service personnel involved in the events of July 13 appear to have done little in the way of self-reflection in terms of identifying areas of missteps, omissions, or opportunities for improvement," the report said. "July 13 represents a historic security failure by the Secret Service which almost led to the death of a former president and current nominee and did lead to the death of a rally attendee."
The panel said that even a "superficial" level of reflection would have been meaningful.
Plaguing the Secret Service are "corrosive cultural attitudes" regarding resourcing events - a "do more with less" attitude, according to the report.
The report also found there was a troubling "lack of critical thinking" by Secret Service personnel "before, during and after" the assassination attempt.
"A prominent instance of this is the fact that personnel had been read into significant intelligence regarding a long range threat by a foreign state actor against former President Trump, but failed to ensure that the AGR building was secured despite its proximity to the rally stage and the obvious high angle line of sight issues it presented," the report found.
Other instances "revealed a surprising lack of rigor in considering the specific risks posed to particular individual protectees."
The report said, for example, Trump, though not formally the Republican nominee at the time, had essentially clinched it months before and thus the Secret Service's approach was formulaic "rather than an individualized assessment of risk."
The failure to take ownership of planning the Butler rally and the lack of cohesion with state and local law enforcement during the planning of events, a lack of experienced agents to perform "certain critical security tasks," a lack of auditing mechanisms to learn from mistakes in the field, a lack of training facilities, and a lack of agents feeling comfortable to speak up.
In particular, the operational tempo for younger agents who came up during the COVID-19 pandemic was slower than most election years, and thus those agents did not get as much experience in the field as agents would normally get.
The panel is calling for new leadership at the Secret Service - saying the agency needs a change with people from outside the agency.
"Many of the issues that the Panel has identified throughout this report, particularly regarding the Panel's "deeper concerns," are ultimately attributable, directly or indirectly, to the Service's culture," the report said. "A refreshment of leadership, with new perspectives, will contribute to the Service's resolution of those issues."
Among the other recommendations the panel made are a restructuring of the agency's protective office, new training initiatives, new communication technologies that are more reliable and an evaluation "of the Secret Service's method for how it resources protectees to ensure that it is risk-based, and not overly formulaic or reliant on a protectee's title for making resource determinations."
"The Panel also recognizes the bravery and selflessness exhibited by Secret Service agents and officers who put themselves in harm's way to protect their protectees, including in Butler after Crooks fired at former President Trump and others. However, bravery and selflessness alone, no matter how honorable, are insufficient to discharge the Secret Service's no-fail protective mission."
Specific to July 13, the panel's findings are in line with the Secret Service's mission assurance review that came out last month.
Some of the findings are an absence of law enforcement to secure the AGR building where Thomas Matthew Crooks eventually fired from, the failure to mitigate the line of site from that building, having two communications rooms, the failure of anyone to encounter Crooks despite spotting him 90 minutes before Trump took the stage, the failure to inform the former president's detail and the drone detection system not working.
The panel recommends the Service has integrated communications, a mandatory situation report when a protectee arrives, better counter-drone technologies and an advanced line of site mitigations.
A footnote in the report says the second assassination attempt against Trump didn't impact the panel's work but might've reinforced the report.
The panel recommends the Service implement the Butler reforms no later than March 31, 2025, and the broader reforms by the end of 2025.
By, Luke Barr ABCNews
Friday, October 18, 2024 12:07AM
Four former law enforcement and national security officials made up the panel.
There were many mistakes made on the day of the July assassination attempt of former President Donald Trump by the Secret Service, but an independent review by the Department of Homeland Security revealed systemic issues within the organization and found that without reforms to the agency, "another Butler can and will happen again."
In the aftermath of the Butler, Pennsylvania, assassination attempt, DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas assigned a panel of four former law enforcement and national security officials to examine what went wrong, and how they recommend the Secret Service moves forward after the attempt on former president's life.
"The Secret Service does not perform at the elite levels needed to discharge its critical mission," the letter addressed to Secretary Mayorkas said, which was included in the report. "The Secret Service has become bureaucratic, complacent, and static even though risks have multiplied and technology has evolved."
On the independent panel are former DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano, former Deputy Attorney General Mark Filip, former Maryland State Police Superintendent David Mitchell and former Deputy National Security Adviser Fran Townsend.
The scathing 35-page report from the independent panel said the findings illustrated "deeper concerns" within the U.S. Secret Service.
"The Panel has observed that many of the Secret Service personnel involved in the events of July 13 appear to have done little in the way of self-reflection in terms of identifying areas of missteps, omissions, or opportunities for improvement," the report said. "July 13 represents a historic security failure by the Secret Service which almost led to the death of a former president and current nominee and did lead to the death of a rally attendee."
The panel said that even a "superficial" level of reflection would have been meaningful.
Plaguing the Secret Service are "corrosive cultural attitudes" regarding resourcing events - a "do more with less" attitude, according to the report.
The report also found there was a troubling "lack of critical thinking" by Secret Service personnel "before, during and after" the assassination attempt.
"A prominent instance of this is the fact that personnel had been read into significant intelligence regarding a long range threat by a foreign state actor against former President Trump, but failed to ensure that the AGR building was secured despite its proximity to the rally stage and the obvious high angle line of sight issues it presented," the report found.
Other instances "revealed a surprising lack of rigor in considering the specific risks posed to particular individual protectees."
The report said, for example, Trump, though not formally the Republican nominee at the time, had essentially clinched it months before and thus the Secret Service's approach was formulaic "rather than an individualized assessment of risk."
The failure to take ownership of planning the Butler rally and the lack of cohesion with state and local law enforcement during the planning of events, a lack of experienced agents to perform "certain critical security tasks," a lack of auditing mechanisms to learn from mistakes in the field, a lack of training facilities, and a lack of agents feeling comfortable to speak up.
In particular, the operational tempo for younger agents who came up during the COVID-19 pandemic was slower than most election years, and thus those agents did not get as much experience in the field as agents would normally get.
The panel is calling for new leadership at the Secret Service - saying the agency needs a change with people from outside the agency.
"Many of the issues that the Panel has identified throughout this report, particularly regarding the Panel's "deeper concerns," are ultimately attributable, directly or indirectly, to the Service's culture," the report said. "A refreshment of leadership, with new perspectives, will contribute to the Service's resolution of those issues."
Among the other recommendations the panel made are a restructuring of the agency's protective office, new training initiatives, new communication technologies that are more reliable and an evaluation "of the Secret Service's method for how it resources protectees to ensure that it is risk-based, and not overly formulaic or reliant on a protectee's title for making resource determinations."
"The Panel also recognizes the bravery and selflessness exhibited by Secret Service agents and officers who put themselves in harm's way to protect their protectees, including in Butler after Crooks fired at former President Trump and others. However, bravery and selflessness alone, no matter how honorable, are insufficient to discharge the Secret Service's no-fail protective mission."
Specific to July 13, the panel's findings are in line with the Secret Service's mission assurance review that came out last month.
Some of the findings are an absence of law enforcement to secure the AGR building where Thomas Matthew Crooks eventually fired from, the failure to mitigate the line of site from that building, having two communications rooms, the failure of anyone to encounter Crooks despite spotting him 90 minutes before Trump took the stage, the failure to inform the former president's detail and the drone detection system not working.
The panel recommends the Service has integrated communications, a mandatory situation report when a protectee arrives, better counter-drone technologies and an advanced line of site mitigations.
A footnote in the report says the second assassination attempt against Trump didn't impact the panel's work but might've reinforced the report.
The panel recommends the Service implement the Butler reforms no later than March 31, 2025, and the broader reforms by the end of 2025.
By, Luke Barr ABCNews
Friday, October 18, 2024 12:07AM
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His having survived two attempts bu looneys from his own party actually made him wealthier and healthier.
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