0 commentsShots were fired at Republican presidential candidate and former President Donald Trump on Sunday; he is safe with no injuries.
“President Trump is safe following gunshots in his vicinity. No further details at this time,” Trump campaign spokesman Steven Cheung said in a statement.
According to law enforcement, the suspect was detained at the golf course after Secret Service had fired at him.
Officials have concluded that the shooting was intentional and was meant to target Trump.
The Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach was closed following the incident.
The Secret Service announced that they are working with West Palm Beach police to investigate the incident, which occurred shortly before 2 p.m.
Upon hearing about the attempted shooting, President Joe Biden and Vice Presidential and Democratic candidate Kamala Harris said they were “relieved to know he is safe.”
“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. Violence has no place in America,” Harris wrote on the social media platform X.
The U.S. Secret Service had tightened security around former president Donald Trump after receiving intel that he was a target of an assassination plot by Iran.
This news raises questions about the security lapses that led to the assassination attempt carried out by Thomas Matthew Crooks against Trump.
There was no indication of any connection between the Iranian plot and Crooks’ attempt to kill the former president.
The gunman and would-be assassin who fired shots at the former president has been identified as 58-year-old Ryan Wesley Routh.
Originally from North Carolina, Routh is currently listed as residing in Hawaii, and has a lengthy criminal record with multiple arrests over the past 30 years.
Active on social media outlets including X/Twitter, Routh indicated that while he had supported Trump during his 2016 presidential campaign, he has since become critical of the former president, and in recent months warned Trump’s return to the White House could imperil the country.
“DEMOCRACY is on the ballot and we cannot lose,” Routh tweeted on April 22nd, calling on Biden, then the 2024 presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, to focus his campaign on a pledge to keep “America democratic and free,” arguing that Trump wants to “make Americans slaves against master.”
“We cannot afford to fail. The world is counting on us to show the way.”
According to a report by The New York Post, Routh has donated exclusively to Democratic candidates since 2019.
Photographs taken by The Associated Press of Routh’s home in Kaaawa, Hawaii reveal that Routh’s pickup truck features a Biden – Harris sticker.
On December 7th, 2023, Routh also appeared to weigh in on the Israeli-Arab conflict, tweeting a map of the biblical Holy Land, showing the Land of Israel divided into Judea, Samaria, and the Galilee.
Above the map, Routh wrote that the entire area appeared to be “historically” all Palestinian, based on the title of the map: “Map of Palestine.”
“I am unclear what part of Isreal [sic] the Jews owned based on this historic map; Judea perhaps? it seems to historically all be palestinian,” he tweeted.
Routh also used his social media presence to try to recruit soldiers for Ukraine in its ongoing war with Russia.
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