Former US President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said in a statement on Sunday that “His determination (to return to the White House) is even stronger After another assassination attempt” An attempt from which he emerged unscathed, as he himself confirmed.
In the text, he also emphasizes that “he will never give up” and encourages his supporters to vote for him in the presidential election on November 5. This is the second message that Trump has sent this Sunday. In the first, he indicated that he was “safe and healthy“.
The former president suffered his second assassination attempt this summer, this Sunday, after an individual, arrested by the secret services and having failed to shoot the president, approached the golf course where the Republican was playing.armed with a scoped AK-47 rifle.
Second attempt in three months
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has confirmed that what happened at the Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Florida, is being investigated as an “attempted murder.” The inmate is a 58-year-old man named Ryan Wesley Routh who has lived in North Carolina and Hawaii, according to local media.
Trump was the victim of an assassination attempt July 13 at a rally in Butler (Pennsylvania) after a 20-year-old man shot him with a rifle, wounding him in the right ear. The Secret Service shot and killed the assailant, who fired from a high place outside the premises, where a member of the public died from a gunshot wound.
The event led to numerous resignations due to security lapses at the event, including that of Kimberly Cheatle, then director of the U.S. Secret Service. Cheatle eventually resigned ten days later due to security lapses at the meeting and said the assassination attempt marked the “major operational failure” agency “decades from now.” Following that, the Secret Service approved a plan to increase Trump’s security, which includes using blind glass screens at his outdoor events.
