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It was pretty awesome to watch them, and they were heroic, because their lives were on the line, they were exposed,
They put themselves between that shooter and the president and there's no mistaking that,
They had the president secured, in my estimation, because I was five yards away from him, maybe after the first shot, certainly after the second shot,
Routh was asked if he knew why he was being stopped,
We need to look at what our protective methodology is,
At this point, we’re still exploring that, investigating that,
Does he think that it’s possible that along the way, mistakes could have been made? Well, I mean, yes, mistakes could have been made, and in this case, lives could be lost because of such, because of a mistake."
I mean, he feels that her political beliefs are far to the left. He feels that that that reminds him of Marxist ideology,
He’s a hard guy to stress. You know, golf is a great game for him. He slows down on the golf course. It's a happy place for him,
Right after the stop, what I saw was someone who was very poised, very in control of himself. Even though we had armed deputies all over the place, probably 30 deputies out there, rifles, a helicopter overhead, both north and southbound on I-95 shut down. He’s in the middle of it all, he never asked 'Hey, what’s this about? When I saw that, I realized he knew what time it was,
We were aware that we were making probably what would be the highest profile stop maybe in the history of this sheriff's office,
The coordination between the Palm Beach County's sheriff's office which gave us the information and my road patrol deputies was flawless,
We operated on that potential and that information and made them stop thinking we were encountering an armed assassin of the former president,
How did this guy get the ability to know where Trump was going to be? It seems to me there may be some kind of either a breach in security or somehow what they thought were secure channels were or there is someone on the inside feeding information,
They're going to look into how he got the rifle and whether the rifle was used anywhere else,
I guess if someone is passionate enough to feel like they have to go to another country to defend another country, they might feel the same way about what they feel needs to be done in their country,
They're definitely going to be looking into his background and his motive. They're going to pull all the videos they can on him, they're going to be looking at social media accounts, they're going to be talking to neighbors,
They're going to look for a potential accomplice or someone who had knowledge and didn't say anything,
You'd have to have done some footwork to find out where to lay low,
It was an off-the-record movement, meaning it was not on the former president's official schedule,