Former US president and Republican presidential candidate, Donald Trumpsaid in a statement on Sunday that “his the determination (to return to the White House) is even stronger after a new assassination attempt.
The text also underlines that will never give up and encouraged his supporters to vote for him in the November 5 presidential election.
This is the second message Trump has sent today. 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.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has confirmed that what happened in the Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Floridais being investigated for “attempted murder.”
The prisoner 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 a assassination attempt on July 13 at a gathering in Butler (Pennsylvania), after a 20-year-old man shot him with a rifle, wounding him in the right ear.
The Secret Services shot the attackerwho fired from a high place outside the venue, where one member of the audience died from a gunshot wound.
The event caused many resignations. security breaches of eventsincluding that of Kimberly Cheatle, then director of the American secret service.
Cheatle eventually resigned 10 days later for security lapses during the meeting and said the assassination attempt represented the agency’s “greatest operational failure” in decades.
Following this, the Secret Service approved a plan to boost Trump’s security, which includes the use of bulletproof glass screens at his outdoor events.
