Trump safe after being targeted in second apparent assassination attempt

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Source: CNN

West Palm Beach, Florida
CNN
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The FBI is investigating what it said is an apparent assassination attempt on Donald Trump at his Florida golf club Sunday, the second time in two months there's been an apparent attempt on the former president's life.


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A Secret Service agent spotted a rifle barrel with a scope sticking out of the fence of the golf course and "immediately engaged" with the person, Bradshaw said. The agent who spotted the rifle, Bradshaw said, is part of a team that stays a hole or two ahead of Trump on the course. The person was 300 to 500 yards away from Trump, an official said.

The person fled the scene in a car and was spotted by a witness, which ultimately helped law enforcement officials locate the vehicle driving north on I-95 in Martin County, one county to the north of Palm Beach.

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The person in custody in connection with the apparent attempted assassination is Ryan Wesley Routh, according to three law enforcement sources.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/15/politics/donald-trump-safe-shots/index.html

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[._.]

1. Hmmm. Let me think..

Bullshit.

[kacekwl]

59. I thought

he was found at the hole in front of drumph. I thought it was between two jerks outside of the club. Get the story straight Secret service, FBI, police. Must be BS cause they aren't breaking in every second to breathlessly reporting.

[sheshe2]

81. Exactly...

Now they are saying he was leaving the course. What hole was the asshole playing when he got winded and had to leave?

I saw a clip of him putting with another guy who sunk his put and TSF blew his. The man picked up TSF's missed ball and he snatched it out of his hand. What a poor widdle sportsman.

[live love laugh]

2. Who wants to kill him? He is LOSING. Smacks of staging.

[Polybius]

10. Maybe the Republican establishment?

They hate him.

[LymphocyteLover]

11. exactly... will be very interesting to see what kind of perp they come up with

[Mark.b2]

12. Iran nt

[live love laugh]

15. 😂😂😂😂. 🤡💩

[tonekat]

33. Too late, he got killed last Tuesday night. N/T

[geardaddy]

94. DUzy!

[Angleae]

34. Putin

[onetexan]

65. I wouldn't put it past putin

[PJMcK]

76. If it was Putin...

… Trump would be dead.

[Angleae]

83. Normally I'd agree but there have been times in the past where russian leaders have picked incompetent assassins.

Stalin v Tito comes to mind.

[totodeinhere]

82. CNN is reporting that social media shows that

the suspect has expressed opposition to Trump and support for Democrats on his social media feeds.

[live love laugh]

84. Of COURSE... FINALLY they can pin it on a DEMOCRAT.

Except looking at his pictures he’s dressed in the flag emblazoned clothing., which is a big clue as to his real attachments.

[brewens]

3. Fuck! That's a tough course! LOL n/t

[LizBeth]

4. Targeted at Trump? They just fire toward the country club? lol

I have heard three different scenarios

[ZonkerHarris]

45. ridiculousness. Later any gun fired in Miami will be an assassination attempt on him too.

[Croney]

5. Democrats have no reason to want him replaced by a saner candidate. Republicans, on the other hand...

[live love laugh]

16. Maybe they can just ask him to step down like they did Biden.

[cstanleytech]

18. Well, they would probably like the cat lady guy running.

[ZonkerHarris]

25. except trump owns the cult so they can't dump him. he is the party now.

[Farmer-Rick]

93. Actually that would be possible

Trump's mental illness is very predictable and specific. A good psychologist or well informed person, who is not afraid of Trump, could manipulate him into dropping out.

Putin knows how to make Trump perform. Russia has always been very good at espionage. They probably had Trump figured out years ago.

Those dictators who Trump so admires are also manipulating him. Trump thinks he's using them but the truth is that those dictators he so loves would eat him alive if Trump ever gets back into power.

He can be manipulated into doing whatever you want. You just have to understand his neuropsychiatric disorder.

[gab13by13]

6. Kabuki theater

Sorry, I don’t trust the Secret Service.

[FalloutShelter]

7. Yeah

This just a couple of hours after Vance says they’ll lie to get the attention of the media.

[PSPS]

8. Just one more thing...

[sarge43]

35. Damn it. I'm going to have to reboot my crap detector n/t

[ArkansasDemocrat1]

60. Turn it up to Eleven

[sarge43]

66. I got that reference. Will do.

[Bengus81]

61. The BULLSHIT meter pegged so hard it broke...........

So....anyone pointing a gun within ten miles of Mar-a-logo is an assassin???

[sarge43]

67. An AK-47 in Florida? It must be Tuesday

Thoughts and prayers, Trump.

[Bengus81]

68. LOL...yep,so now it's illegal in Florida to pack heat?? Oh wait...only if a weapon is near Trump I guess

[riversedge]

49. ++

[BlueKota]

54. I didn't know that about Jim Jones

[agingdem]

9. ho hum..no one cares...

[underpants]

13. Chaos doesn't sell. That is all.

[Ellipsis]

19. Made me think of Radio K.A.O.S - Roger Waters

[IbogaProject]

32. That was an excellent concert

Great live show. He was better than the rest of Pink Floyd on their own tour.

[ArkansasDemocrat1]

86. I saw his tour where there was a woman on a beach on the video

[IbogaProject]

88. Ah that was Pros & Cons of Hitchhiking

I think that tour had Clapton on guitar!

[ArkansasDemocrat1]

89. I had to look at my pics. It was the Us + Them tour

[Nikossitti]

14. I call

Bullshit

[BluenFLA]

17. Smells like desperation

Obviously trying to get everyone to stop talking about how Harris creamed him in the debate.

[et tu]

22. it would have to be

a closer call for that to happen!

[PSPS]

20. CNN is embellishing here. The police have already stated this was not targeting trump.

CNN should know better. It was an "exchange of gunfire" between two men far outside the club. trump's club has diminished the neighborhood to the point that people get into gun fights over ... well, it's florida.

[FakeNoose]

26. I think they were shootin' at the alligators

[Grokenstein]

37. CNN *does* know better. They're "just following orders."

Gotta prop up the Orange Antichrist, no matter what. I'm just surprised they haven't claimed diminished donnie personally disarmed and captured the shooter while his security team stood by in astonishment at his strength and speed, tears in their eyes.

[Bengus81]

62. Yep...I heard that earlier while watching the Chiefs game and then now........

The whole BULLSHIT story changed.

[HagathaCrispy]

21. He's channeling his inner Alex Murdaugh

He must have seen a story about Alex Murdaugh on Fox News

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

23. "I took a bullet for the country," hasn't worked, so it's time for Plan B.

Stage the same thing -- minus the injury -- and the RW goes batshit crazy trying to get Kamala out of the race because, ""she's not worth even one assassination attempt."

[ashredux]

24. Something smells. Something with Trump always smells.

I find it hard to believe the far left is trying to assassinate Trump. Could it be, and just call me a conspiracy theorists, he would be more useful to the far far right as a martyr than as an aging old senile man.

[Bengus81]

69. Carl Rove anywhere near Florida?? Has that smell....n/t

[C_U_L8R]

27. He'll do anything

to foment another insurrection. Anything.

[tonekat]

28. "This assassination problem is not going to go away..."

I had forgotten Tony got grazed in the ear, making this clip even more applicable.

The line in the title is at 1:22

?si=5CcBaJbnX1rWAq0a

[twodogsbarking]

29. Land Shark.

[OrlandoDem2]

31. Do NOT kill him! He's Kamala's best chance of winning!

[Mysterian]

36. So predictable....

a phony crisis manufactured by billionaires.

[republianmushroom]

72. With help !

[Kashkakat v.2.0]

38. For whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap - true dat nt

[Deminpenn]

39. Live by violence, die by violence

nt

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

40. This stinks........

another charade or set up. I think. Or a person with mental issues. Or being shot, or almost shot, or near some shots is just 'how things are nowadays'..........

[Tarc]

41. My my. It's almost like someone could benefit from a distraction

from Catdog-gate, and from his racist immigrant dog-whistling in general.

[C_U_L8R]

42. The little orange chicken cries wolf again.

Cue media sky fall in 4, 3, 2.…

[ReRe]

43. If there's no Press Conference

this is all a crock. Who has possession of the AK-47, the backpack and camera? Where is the "car"?

[PatrickforB]

44. We are watching this coverage now on MSNBC. The guy had an AK47, which is odd.

Probably will be a lot of unanswered questions as we go. But they've caught this guy alive, so we may find out some.

But I'm with Walz - political violence HAS NO PLACE WHATSOEVER.

The security analyst they put on said that these 'open carry' states are really dangerous from a Secret Service perspective. He wondered aloud if it is time for us to impose some assault weapons bans. I thought that was good, because we DEFINITELY need to ban assault weapons.

You know, I dislike Trump and everything he stands for. But please, let's defeat him at the ballot box.

[riversedge]

46. Laura Loomer is on her way to check it out...........

Link to tweet

[BlueKota]

55. Got to make sure her bubby is okay

[samnsara]

47. ths is such bullshit..for one thing...

..no way can TWO shooters miss

[DemonGoddess]

48. Staged for attention I think

[DET]

50. Well...

I hope that the suspect in custody can endure the rigorous interrogation that he will go through. Amazing coincidence that TSF was almost assassinated by two crappy shooters. He’s already fundraising.

[Akakoji]

51. Really Tragic about his drop in the Polls.

Sad when someone lies so much you can't believe anything you even hear about them. What are the odds that so many people are such bad shooters? They certainly seem to be able to kill teachers, principals and kids going to school.

[NoMoreRepugs]

52. I just passed gas outside in Jacksonville - does that count as a suspected attack on the SlobFather in S Florida?

[Diraven]

53. Let me get this straight

Now it's gone from the SS fired shots at a guy with a gun, who dropped it and ran, to the guy took several shots directly at Trump? I think unnamed "sources familiar with the matter" are trying to create another heroic thwarted assassination narrative. What's even the point of CNN not naming these sources?

[agingdem]

56. he was targeted leaving his golf club except

he was on his golf course and wanted to finish the last hole...so he wasn't leaving his golf club??...a heaping shovel of bullshit..

[Bengus81]

71. Yep....more CNN horse SHIT. I haven't watched their crap on been online with them since that phony Trump town hall.

[ArmedLiberal24]

57. Same as last time. Low polls a FAKE attempt at the FAT ORANGE FARTING FUMBLING FUCK FACE. TRE45ON.

Hey, all of you FAKE ASSASSINS, the man will just die of a heart attack due to extremely poor diet , age , weight , highly charged emotions (NEVER GOOD ON THE BODY) and all of the magic pills(ADDERALL) they give him. The man drinks 12 cans of diet soda on average daily. And 24 or more when he is stressed out. Diet soda is particularly dangerous for the heart. When it is combined with all of the other previously mentioned things that he allows in his life, well the outcome is almost always a heart attack. And a super massive one at that. TRE45ON.

[Frank D. Lincoln]

58. AK-47, Agenda47,...

wait, isn't Trump trying to get elected again to become the 47th president?

These coincidences are making my head spin.

[Wednesdays]

63. Huh. Two "assassination attempts" in just over 2 months, coming up to Election Day

and NO assassination attempts for how many YEARS before that?

Yeah, as they say...how convenient!

[Skittles]

64. sounds like another one of their own gun humping creations

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

[Bengus81]

70. Yeah... a NUT JOB with an automatic weapon. Exactly what Dems have wanted to once again BAN for decades

Try and spin it though Trump..........

[4catsmom]

73. who are all these lousy shooters?

and why is Trump always on the golf course?

[PortTack]

74. CNN is Bull shit! The only shots fired were from the SS

[tclambert]

75. It was an official from the USGA sick and tired of Trump cheating at golf.

[Crowman2009]

77. Florida's lax gun laws had a lot to do with this as well!

Another case of the chicken's coming home to roost for the GOP. Because they seem to have this delusion that the people buying this assault weapons are all gonna be on their side.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

78. Trump-Vance On Gun Violence: "Fact of Life" That We "Have to Get Over"

Get over it, Cheeto. Getting shot is a Fact of Life.

[usonian]

79. Well, maybe, JUST MAYBE the golf club was trying to enforce the rules

AGAINST CHEATERS.



Tough place to play.

(Sarcasm)

[Dangling0826]

80. Is this really even newsworthy?

This just sounds like another day in America and Trump and JD both said oh well we just have to live with it? I wonder if msnbc is going to pull Joe off the air like they did last time.

[Aussie105]

85. In a country full of guns you are bound to hear a few gunshots every now and then.

No reason to think you are the target, unless you have a guilty conscience or are paranoid.
Or think you can get some political mileage from it.

No evidence this time? No bloody ear?

[Clouds Passing]

87. OMG bullshit!

[Old Crank]

90. Why arent the GOP up in arms

The guy did nothing but exercise his 2nd amendment rights.

[ArmedLiberal24]

91. Trump has always been safe !!! TRE45ON.

They need to get some sympathy for Trump. This also provides a time to make the secret service who babysit Trump look a little better after having to take some bruising from Trump's MAGA buddies in congress (ALL PART OF THE PLAN) as Trump's secret service had to publicly take some punches to make it look like incompetence. Only one witness to take photo of bad guy's plates and vehicle thus allowing for a quick and speedy chase and catch, hmmmm ? Brings black backpacks, go pro equipment, AK-47 rifle "assuming not a folding stock rifle" was seen earlier scouting out places in bushes to hide and take up position. This also gives them a trial run to see public's reaction if it were to be made real on Donny for obvious reasons and or to take out his political rivals as he has stated so many times before. What these MAGA idiots do not seem to understand is that they are deemed enemies of the state for all of their attempts at holding onto power such as J6. This gives certain government agencies the right to watch and listen to everything these MAGA Republican operatives are planning and executing very closely. Interesting how Trump is keeping quiet about this ?. He is sure to use it at his next rally. He will say that they tried to get him twice. They meaning blue team. Trump's team does not understand that anything they try and pull now will look just as it seems. Crying wolf might work once (AND IT DID NOT) but all of Trump's team has accomplished is in making America extremely more interested in every scheme that team Trump tries to pull off. These people are extremely desperate which makes them extremely dangerous. The United States government knows of this as well.TRE45ON.

[twodogsbarking]

92. Was it an attorney that Trump didn't pay?

[MorbidButterflyTat]

95. Hm. So,

"A Secret Service agent spotted a rifle barrel with a scope sticking out of the fence of the golf course..."

but the suspect was able to escape by car?

Whatever.