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© Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.Trump safe after Secret Service open fire at person with firearm near his golf club
By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER, COLLEEN LONG, MICHAEL BALSAMO and ZEKE MILLER WASHINGTON©2024 GPlusMedia Inc.
110 Comments
John
Trump is a racist scumbag who is the instigator of political violence and not its victim.
falseflagsteve
John
I would consider being shot at makes you considered a victim
Peter Neil
wasn’t shot at. secret service was two holes ahead of trump and spotted him along the fence line.
TaiwanIsNotChina
So what should we offer Trump? Counseling?
Yrral
Banthu, Trump has earned all the scorn that heaped on him,he put the lives of innocent people at jeopardy without any remorse,yes their should not be a violence response,but he should get all the scorn ,he deserves
itsonlyrocknroll
The former president is safe and unharmed, and the FBI says it is investigating "what appears to be an attempted assassination" of the Republican presidential candidate.
Another assassination attempt.
An illiberal media, a toxic democrat Harris/Walz/Biden campaign of hate is inspiring attempts on the life of a elected chosen republican candidate nominee.
Just read John tone...
Trump is a racist scumbag who is the instigator of political violence and not its victim.
bass4funk
The man is nothing remotely close to being racists, come on now. There was no reason or justification for this. Thank God the secret service got him and alive even better. So we will learn a lot.
Ryan Wesley Routh, that’s the name of the coward, so let’s see where the crumbs lead us.
bass4funk
Maybe compassion and keeping our mouths sealed until we know more.
NOMINATION
Perhaps not joke about violence towards ANY president. Maybe this never happened and was just flying gas eh?
falseflagsteve
Taiwan
Whatever you think of something thinking it’s ok to shoot at them is not just morally wrong but also a criminal offence.
Peter Neil
He was a victim of attempted assassination a few weeks ago and now this if this were Biden or Harris being shot at or even a shooter near them, things would be reported vastly differently.
JJE
That man will never surrender. He already took a bullet for democracy.
Scoped rifle, Go-Pro-style camera and ceramic tile insert, according to the authorities.
dagon
I don't know and don't really care about the nature and motivation of the would be assassin.
But it is Trump who has been an agent of chaos in American democracy, especially since Jan. 6, and it is escalating. No doubt about that.
Ah_so
"Gun violence is a fact of life and people need to deal with it"
(JD Vance)
bass4funk
You don’t, but the rest of the country does
Absolutely the opposite
The Dems didn’t help with their 3 month summer violence, and libs going around taking over our college institutions, defacing them, robing, looting, open borders, murder rates on the rise, attacks worsening on our police, drug use out of control. Sorry, not Trump, not the Republicans, that’s all from this administration done masterfully within 3 years, Trump is the solution for this cancer.
DaDude
"Tim Walz and I are both gun owners,” Harris said, referencing her running mate. “We’re not taking anybody’s guns away.”
itsonlyrocknroll
Yarri,
Trump is the target here,
I contend a illiberal mass media, a Harris/Walz campaign refusal to debate policies that are fundamentally important to the US electorate, instead undertaking a vicious defamatory hate filled media agenda is responsible for inspiring these attempts on Donald Trumps life.
Chuck
Vance nailed it. Deal with it.
JJE
Photos of the arrest/offender are out there. Name/age etc. Has a long SM history that reveals all.
Underworld
itsonlyrocknroll
The former president is safe and unharmed, and the FBI says it is investigating "what appears to be an attempted assassination" of the Republican presidential candidate.
No they aren't.
You are jumping to conclusions. You do not know why this assassination attempt occurred. The previous one had nothing to do with hate.
bass4funk
Oh, yea? So why did the suspect flee? Why did he have a duffel bag with clothes in it? Why hid in the bushes and aim a gun through a chain link fence? I would never run from anything if I thought I’m innocent, just something innocent people never do.
Underworld
bass4funk
You are jumping to conclusions. You do not know why this assassination attempt occurred. The previous one had nothing to do with hate.
Who said he was innocent?
But all you have is questions.
You have no idea of what his motivations are.
JJE
Let's just say this guy has a certain political affiliation and has been very active and vocal with his support for many quarters on SM. This means he is also a very, very outspoken fan of a particular foreign country including an actual visit.
How will they spin it this time. Makes one wonder.
JJE
Fox News, Associated Press have named him.
CNN just followed suit, all citing "multiple law enforcements officials".
Ryan Wesley Routh.
N. Knight
More guns for American lunatics!
itsonlyrocknroll
Underworld, honestly please, how many attempts on a republican candidates life, in an election campaign in living memory can you think of?
The FBI are rightfully investigating this "incident" as another alleged assassination attempt.
The FBI would not release a statement to the affect in such a short space of time without evidence to believe so.
Trump has been subjected to relentless hateful personal attacks,
Is it not the case that sooner or later such personal hate will inspire a looney tune shooter or two?
bass4funk
So why did he flee?
Yes, but it seems like the Dems have all the answers, they definitely have their accusations
Ok, so you’re basically saying he went there with the intention of hunting squirrels, I see.
Blacklabel
Same guy?
Definitely him:
No way he wasn’t also “on our radar” at the FBI.
rcch
“ Trump safe after Secret Service open fire at person with firearm near his golf club ;
A man with an AK-style rifle pointed the firearm’s muzzle into Donald Trump’s golf club in West Palm Beach, Florida, as the former president was playing a round, prompting the U.S. Secret Service to open fire, … “
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Another assassination attempt just nine weeks after assassination attempt 1 (we’ll have to start counting them)—still standing and with no signs of slowing down;
Trump: “ 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!
Nothing will slow me down. I will NEVER SURRENDER! “ ;
He later told Sean Hannity: “ I really wanted to finish the hole! “— heheh, the man’s spirit and sense of humor are unbreakable.
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( conflicting opinions on whether this was another Secret Service failure or not—some people saying the shooter should never have gotten that close to where Trump was, others saying the Secret Service reacted perfectly and prevented anything worse from happening—I guess it just depends on how you look at it )
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Note: I hope (again) that this is one of the few Trump articles where most of my fellow JT readers post some kind words and see some unity—at the end of the day, we’re all just humans with different opinions.
Underworld
rcch
What are you talking about? They are unrelated events. There is no 'slowing down'.
We have no idea of the shooter's motivations.
Underworld
Blacklabel
Looks like another gun nut.
Why was he still allowed a gun after his last stunt with a gun?
The US needs common-sense gun laws.
Gene Hennigh
I hate Trump. I hate him as much as anyone can.
What I hate worse than him, though, is some single person trying to decide to kill a president (or any holder of a Federal seat) or to kill someone running for office.
This is not a right or left thing. No one should kill OUR president. No one should kill a candidate that WE get to decide to seat or not.
I'm glad Mr. Trump is safe. I hate him. But he still gets to run. This guy shouldn't decide how the rest of us vote. Voting is the only way we have as individuals to voice our opinions. I hate that someone tries to keep me from voting against him more than I hate him. I'll go to the wall for Trump in this respect. Then I will decide to vote against him. That's the American way, which is certainly fine with me.
bass4funk
I absolutely love the guy and I’m saying for the record, I totally and completely agree with you.
Exactly, I couldn’t agree more and I deeply admire the man, would always vote for him, but I agree this is just not right. I hate Kamala with all my fiber being, but I would be equally concerned and appalled if this happens to her, she’s a human and she’s an American. We just can’t have this kind of division, it’s just not good for the nation.
Underworld
bass4funk
Who said he was innocent?
This is a non sequitur. Nobody is saying that he is innocent.
But all you have is questions.
Really? I have seen none.
You have no idea of what his motivations are.
No. I am saying that he likely was planning an assassination. What we don't know, is why?
Underworld
itsonlyrocknroll
You are jumping to conclusions. The previous assassination attempt wasn't inspired by personal hate.
Why not wait and find out what his motivations were? At least he is alive, so this should be easier.
N. Knight
Hearing reports that after the first attempt, he now wears a bullet proof diaper.
u_s__reamer
With his nasty, vicious way with word salads 45 has finally let the genie out of the bottle and now has put a target on his own back as psycho copycats come out of their closets guns blazing seeking notoriety.
Strangerland
Maybe if he stopped calling for violence and stoking the anger and aggression, people wouldn't be responding with the same.
Remember, it wasn't like this until he made it this way.
bass4funk
Answer the damn question, why would he flee then?
Funny, already there are people here (the usuals) that claim Trump is not a victim or that the shooter might be a Republican, shouldn’t we just wait before rambling off what his motives are? Or what affiliation or allegiance lays?
Don’t tell me, tell John and Lincoln that.
Well, there you go.
Then none of us should opine what or why, the only thing we should do is condemn the SS and ask him why and how this could happen, they need to drag Myorkas in for a hearing and grill him as to why and how this could happen.
Toblerone
So much “progressives” hate and apologists for political violence as long as it is targeting Donald Trump. Extremely disturbing.
Gene Hennigh, well said.
wallace
During his election campaign, Trump has stirred up more than his share of hate.
bass4funk
Which he wouldn’t.
PTownsend
Too little information to be certain what happened, but it sounds like another US American nutjob with a gun caused another disturbance and Trump was involved. Let the conspiracy theories begin. Knowing, even after all the information has been made available, the waxk theories probably will not end, after all Trump was involved. I hope no one was hurt and Trump did not lose his shoes again.
ArtistAtLarge
The man who started an insurrection deserves nothing of the kind.
ArtistAtLarge
Strangerland
Exactly.
wallace
Trump started the hate and violence on Jan6.
bass4funk
No, you just have a lot of people that hate the guy because they can’t control. Muzzle, make him say or do things he doesn’t want, he’s not a politician, unrefined, a businessman, opinionated, takes on and takes apart his enemies, if people can’t handle that particularly liberals, oh, well, then they need to try and keep their emotions intact and take their anger to the ballot box and not pick up a gun and try to end the guy.
Yeah, not funny and that’s just not going to happen, moving along….
Underworld
bass4funk
This is a non sequitur.
He fled because he didn't want to get caught. I would have thought that was obvious.
Really? I have seen none.
So the people saying you should not jump to conclusions are the Dems, and yet you say they have all the answers and they they definitely have their accusations.
Don’t tell me, tell John and Lincoln that.
No. I am saying that he likely was planning an assassination.
As I said all along. Not sure why it took so long for you to understand that.
What we don't know, is why?
Why? The secret service did well here.
bass4funk
No, he didn’t. In the U.S. we have the absolute right to protest. I don’t like what the lib moon bats did on the college campuses, but they have the right to express their opinions. Both sides have the right.
wallace
bass4funk
Trump started the hate and violence on Jan6.
But no right to riot and loot with more than 1,000 offenders arrested and about 500 imprisoned. The longest being 22 years.
it caused about $2.7 billion in estimated costs, according to an updated report from the Government Accountability Office.
WoodyLee
""Harris, in a statement, also said “violence has no place in America.”"
We heard this about a million times before,
NOTHING has changed since the assassination of Pres. A. Lincoln.
Fighto!
Really poor security - yet again.
If this alleged would-be assassin was a half decent shot, he was at a distance to easily take Trump out with a scope and rifle.
Make no mistake - there will be many, many more attempts on Trumps life going forward if would be assassins continue to be given such clear opportunities.
WoodyLee
Plenty of guns, Plenty of famous wanna be, Plenty of Nut Cases, and Plenty of Hate fueled by the very same people being targeted, and what you get is the right recipe for an Assassination and murders.
bass4funk
Usually people that are not guilty don’t usually run.
I would have thought that was very obvious.
Scroll through this thread.
They do, so maybe they should calm down first and wait
Yes
The left, no idea
Which is alarming
Not the executive branch who are MIA
bass4funk
No, he didn’t. In the U.S. we have the absolute right to protest. I don’t like what the lib moon bats did on the college campuses, but they have the right to express their opinions. Both sides have the right.
The Summer riots caused Property damage estimated at $1–2 billion, making it one of the costliest periods of civil unrest in U.S. history and then the Police injuries over 2,000 law enforcement officers were injured, with injuries ranging from minor to severe.
mrtinjp
Remember, it wasn't like this until he made it this way.
No the radical left incited violence and hatred made it this way.. DT was just an excuse..
Underworld
bass4funk
What we don't know, is why?.
No it isn't. These things take time.
bass4funk
Yes, which given the circumstances is very alarming
Underworld
mrtinjp
For example? Where is an example of the radical left inciting violence?
patkim
We should all wait until all details come out, just like the last shooting. Although I don't like Trump, I'm glad that he wasn't seriously hurt. I wouldn't want to wish any ill will towards him.
I just hope he doesn't abuse this to try to sell more products, just like he did when he was shot the last time. It was sick to see him selling overpriced shoes with the picture of him with the bandage on his ear. I don't know anyone who tries to profit from a serious incident like that. Please Trump, don't try to sell any "assassination attempt" products just to get more money for your own pockets.
Hervé L'Eisa
Again, the endless anti-Trump rhetoric is VULGAR AND OFFENSIVE. Such violence-condoning comments are unacceptable.
Terms like MAGAts are VULGAR AND OFFENSIVE. But they get a pass because they are from the left.
Bias!
Underworld
bass4funk
No it isn't. These things take time.
No. It's not.
ClippetyClop
Trump’s threats to destroy the democratic process makes him a target for desperate people. If he is elected, and it is still likely that he will be, this may be the last time to vote for many people.
In the mind of an assassin, killing Trump is the only way to preserve democracy, because after November he and his elite cabal will begin their authoritarian project.
Guy Gin and tonic
Trump deserves jail, not assassination. How else is the U.S. going to start healing? I’m glad nobody down there was killed or injured.
Nibek32
Trump has created this violent culture.
bass4funk
Don't worry, you don't need to try and convince me, because that is what is going around already.
Nibek32
He is alive, so looks like the security was more than sufficient.
bass4funk
No, you didn't just say that??? After what the Dems have been doing to this guy since 2016 and all the up until now is the very definition of destroying the democratic process, don't believe me, look at the polls, Trump is ahead in most crucial battle states and both are in a close tie, if Kamala were THAT good, real, authentic and not a bi-product of her boss's admin. she might be 12 points ahead but she's not, the majority of Americans don't trust her on the economy, crime, and the border.
Like the establishment or the Anti-American haters? I can see that.
Then that is their choice, it will just help the opposition
Well, luckily this is Florida and not California, because if it were, the guy might be out on the streets again, but in Florida, his goose is cooked.
Underworld
Hervé L'Eisa
Sure. and the endless anti-Harris rhetoric is VULGAR, OFFENSIVE AND RACIST.
Be vulgar or offensive isn't violence-condoning.
Why?
ClippetyClop
Blah blah blah irrelevant whadabout crap.
Trump promised to be a dictator on day one. Promised his churchgoers they'd never need to vote again because he'll fix it. Supports Project 2025, Schedule F. Wines and dines racists and white supremacists. Tries to illegally overturn elections. We could go on.
Perhaps if he stopped doing these things then he wouldn't be a target for nutters.
itsonlyrocknroll
ClippetyClop.........
In the mind of an assassin, killing Trump is the only way to preserve democracy, because after November he and his elite cabal will begin their authoritarian project.
Is this not incitement to commit harm to Donald Trump?.
JJE
NYT is now naming him (as other media reported too).
The plot thickens: the same publication is reporting they actually did an interview with the very same individual in 2023 about his adventures to and activities on behalf of a certain foreign country. This is according to their Chief White House Correspondent.
Hmm... More questions than answers.
Underworld
itsonlyrocknroll
No.
Blacklabel
no way this guy wasn’t on the FBI radar.
bass4funk
Trump deserves neither, but the swamp does.
Suggestions? Lol
Same.
No, it's all relevant.
How would he do that? Let me guess, murder everyone in congress? How would he do that exactly? Details?
Like how?
No, he doesn't, even the liberal NYT of all news outlets sided with Trump and backed him when he repeatedly said, he doesn't support it.
The White House did as well, your point?
Under our constitution, he has every right to make sure all the votes are counted and to contest the election if there are any irregularities. Gore did it in 2000, Raskin and Jefferies did in 2016
That goes both ways, but most conservatives historically don't go and try to assassinate people.
ClippetyClop
Why are you asking me? Trump is the one who promised to do it. Maybe you should be asking him that question.
Is MAGA allowed to question Trump about anything?
It isn't. It rarely is.
burgers and beers
Again? Not surprising though given the amount of Trump hate in media and SMN. Even on this board, almost daily, the level of anti Trump vitriol by the regular half a dozen hard core Dems accounts is off the scale. Then things like this happen. Luckily the Secret Service were on the ball this time, good job.
stormcrow
Trump will probably blame the Democrats, but actually it's just another nut job with very easy access to firearms thanks to the NRA-sponsored Republican politicians. Look in the mirror at your own mess before you start pointing fingers.
Underworld
burgers and beers
I would say it is very surprising.
Many people are anti-Trump? What's your point? People are also anti-Harris.
There isn't a correlation.
Yes.
Tim Sullivan
Thank God he is safe. He is our only hope in an increasingly dangerous world.
ushosh123
Well what should be done then? Gun control? More debates? Just vote him out?
Underworld
The suspect voted for Trump in 2016, is a fan of Tulsi and Vivek. More importantly he is a gun nut.
Hardly the "them" that the right try to paint as far-left violent discontents.
bass4funk
You brought it up.
I don't need to because I know in the US we have a Congress, so how and why libs think he can pull it off makes me nervous and makes me believe that they slept through political science class.
Always
Then, in that case, the left doesn't need to bring out something so outrageous
bass4funk
Routh is a native of North Carolina, where his list of arrests includes simple drug possession, driving without a license, expired inspection and operating a vehicle with no insurance. In addition, the Greensboro News & Record reported in 2002 that Routh was arrested after barricading himself in his roofing company's office during a three-hour standoff that followed a traffic stop in which he put his hand on a gun before fleeing.
Where did you see this, what source?
Ok, so what proof?
Blacklabel
The guy had interview in the New York Times and was in propaganda video for Azov battalion.
no way FBI and CIA aren’t familiar with him.
Blacklabel
Guess you didn’t hear what the assassin’s son had to say about Trump.
Could be daddy/son day in prison soon.
Underworld
Blacklabel
Hardly the "them" that the right try to paint as far-left violent discontents.
Guess you don't realize that the assassin's son isn't the suspect.
BurakuminDes
Happy to hear that all non-felons were safe and unharmed.
wallace
bass4funk
Happened under Trump's watch but anyway it's not related to this article. it does not excuse the Trump riot and looting on Jan 6. A crime Trump has been charged with.
Blacklabel
So the comprehensive investigation that started like 3 hours ago has already ruled him out, yeah?
I think his public hateful statements might rule him “in”.
patkim
It is the right who are racially profiling Blacks, following anyone who is of dark-skinned and shooting at them from trucks and cars. It is the right who are conducting mass shooting in schools, that the right who then claim it's all fake and made up. It's the right wingers who are targeting people who worship in mosques and taking their guns into public places to exact acts of violence. It is the right who are working hard to divide America rather than unite it. It is the right who wants you to fear what's different; rather than embrace difference.
Underworld
Blacklabel
Yup!
Nope!
wallace
All under Trump's watch.
According to the police, the daytime BLM protests were peaceful. After the protests finished the rioters and looters took to the streets under the cover of dark.
93% of Black Lives Matter Protests Have Been Peaceful, New Report Finds
https://time.com/5886348/report-peaceful-protests/
ok1517
Bass, sorry (not) but did you see this??
Elon Mask: "And no one is even trying to assassinate Biden / Harris!"
Tucker Carlson: " I like Trump spewing the racist lie about Haitian immigrants"
JD Vance completely endorses Project 2025.
And so on!!
You tell (not just me) who is inciting and instigating!
bass4funk
If the crime stats show that the people who commit most of the crimes are Black has nothing to do with racism, you can't shy away or ignore it because you don't like it, that is just a fact.
Not the majority of them
So given the history the world has had with fundamental Islam, we should just ignore it because the left doesn't it because they feel it is profiling? That would be suicidal and asking for it.
If you have a legal license to carry and are a law-abiding citizen, then that is your right.
Wrong, we are not the ones that pushes a radical liberal agenda, we know the difference between men and women, we want to protect women, we want to protect our flag, we don't want our statues and monuments removed. we want a secure border, we don't want illegals to overrun the country, we want our sovereign borders to be protected and if that is dividing the nation because we are pro-American, so be it.
Not if it puts our children and the nation at risk.
bass4funk
Did it happen?
And? I don't know what is true or not, so I digress for now.
He is not running for the Presidency
And so on, what?
You didn't so again, what are you talking about?
wallace
bass4funk
Happened under Trump's watch
Weak president, a weak man.
bass4funk
Except for 3 months of summer 2020
That is what I said.
Not night time
Yes and that is when the chaos of the left began, and the masks went on.
Not during the night.
ok1517
bass,
find the facts!
I'm too busy to help you with that!
Or keep on believing in racist smears, instigating and inciting.
Alfie Noakes
Ryan Routh has now been erased by both Facebook and X, but some people managed to grab shots of his Facebook page. Blimey!
https://x.com/realjakejacks/status/1835449839058092363
https://thegrayzone.com/2024/09/15/suspect-trump-assassination-plot-recruited-for-ukraines-international-legion/
JJE
Something of an Oswald-vibe going on here.
Him making it into a NYT article last year about recruiting mercenaries for a certain country means it's impossible for the relevant agencies to claim there has been zero contact, direct or indirect. Totally implausible.
Biden Administration cannot be trusted on this.
Congress needs a full, independent, aggressive investigation.
bass4funk
I did, but you are not saying anything
Well, that is why I stay away from lib propaganda for exactly the reason you outlined.
bass4funk
But libs did that under his watch, no one told them to do that, and the left did nothing and Pelosi would not allow Trump to do anything.
If that were the case he would be where Pence is now at, nice try though.
Nibek32
This is American culture. If you support the 2nd amendment, then you have to accept that shootings are part of daily life. Shouganai.
Blacklabel
It’s a sad state of affairs when I ask how the investigation into Trump’s assassination is going and the reply is now “which one”?
very clear there is no leftist confidence of winning an election at the ballot box.
best they can hope is to whine that they “won” the popular vote, but even that is 50/50 now.
rcch
( According to sources familiar with Trump's internal calendar, Trump's decision to head to the golf course on Sunday was a last minute one and had not been publicized.
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A witness was able to identify the individual who fled from the bushes outside Trump’s course and jumped into a black car. Police later recovered an AK-47 "with a scope" and two backpacks and a GoPro from the bushes. Secret Service agents who advance Trump by one hole on the course spotted the rifle barrel sticking out of the bushes.
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Florida Gov Ron DeSantis: “ The people deserve the truth about the would be assassin and how he was able to get within 500 yards of the former president and current GOP nominee. “ )
Underworld
Blacklabel
Oh, there is a lot of confidence.
These assassination attempts aren't carried out by people on the left.
They are carried out by disillusioned people on the right.
Not according to FiveThirtyEight:
https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2024-election-forecast/?cid=rrpromo