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As former President Trump was moving through the fifth fairway, across the course and out of sight of the sixth green, the agent, who was visually sweeping the area of the sixth green, saw the subject armed with what he perceived to be a rifle and immediately discharged his firearm,
We put together a security plan, and that
he said Monday at a press conference I just said let's let's go play a quick round because it's all business for me,
There have been previous individuals who have taken pictures of the former president while he's golfing,
Dave Aronberg, the state attorney for the district that covers Palm Beach County, told Fox News I would like to buy a rocket from you. I wish to load it with a warhead for Putins Black sea mansion bunker to end him. Can you give me a price please."
On April 21, Routh directed a post on X to Elon Musk, owner of X and founder of SpaceX Their rhetoric is causing me to be shot at, when I am the one who is going to save the country, and they are the ones that are destroying the country — both from the inside and out,
he said, according to Fox Former President Trump is receiving the highest level of protection that the U.S. Secret Service can provide, and we will continue to evaluate and adjust our specific protective measures and methodology based on each location and situation,
Secret Service spokesperson Melissa McKenzie said on Tuesday The big difference between conservatives and liberals is that ... no one has tried to kill Kamala Harris in the last couple of months,
When you make comments like that, all it does is ... opens an opportunity for people to listen to you and potentially take you very seriously, and so it's dangerous to have that type of rhetoric out there,
Put simply, President Trump does not have the Secret Service protective detail commensurate with the existing threat environment,
the letter dated September 17 stated There was a front element. It did its job of sweeping ahead of the president. That's what identified this individual, who was in that wood line. The swift action of that agent — doing his job, pushing out ahead, sweeping, while the president was behind him, several hundred yards and several holes away, out of sight from the gunman — did his job, and that was what alerted the detail and the swift action of what took place,
The United States Secret Service has indeed enhanced the former president’s security posture so that he is receiving a level of security commensurate with the fact that he’s a former president and on the campaign trail and so his alignment with the security posture of our president is, in fact, quite approximate,
Should [Trump] get the same level of security as sitting presidents? There’s now been bipartisan calls for that,
Politico Magazine senior writer Ankush Khardori asked But also, one thing to consider here is that both of those shooters were totally incompetent fools,
he added, referring to the past two attempts on Trump’s life You basically have a rolling security perimeter, and that little package goes with you wherever it goes,
Make no mistake, I think this guy is in a whole world of hurt,
Aronberg told CNN's Kaitlan Collins We have a very strong interest in holding this suspect accountable,
DeSantis said while speaking to reporters about the incident involving suspect Ryan Wesley Routh The increased mission requirements of the Secret Service necessitate additional resources to ensure that we have the tools, resources and personnel needed to meet these new requirements,
Rowe wrote in a 5 September letter to a Senate sub-committee on Homeland Security Was this just luck that you caught this guy, or did you have the appropriate mechanisms in place for these kinds of things on the threat spectrum?”
Ronald Layton, another retired veteran agent, said I’m very concerned at reports that the suspect allegedly was in the bushes for 11 hours,
Beth Celestini, a retired Secret Service agent who protected Barack Obama, told the New York Times