Update: 17:50:
- The FBI said Sunday it “is investigating what appears to be an attempted assassination” of Donald Trump. The former president is safe after shots were fired at Trump International Golf Club on Sunday.
- A Secret Service agent spotted a rifle barrelsticking out of fence and “engaged” with the suspect, Palm Beach County Sheriff Ric Bradshaw said at a news conference late Sunday afternoon. The gunman was 300 to 500 yards away from Trump, a Secret Service official said. Law enforcement found an AK-47 style rifle, GoPro and backpacks where the suspect was positioned, Bradshaw said.
- The Martin County Sheriff’s Office said a man taken into custody was “relatively calm” when detained. The suspect has not been named.
- President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris are both “relieved to know” that Trump is safe and have been briefed on the situation, according to the White House.
Update:
Officials have confirmed that a Secret Service agent opened fire on an armed suspect while former President Donald Trump was golfing at his golf course near West Palm Beach, Florida.
During the incident, Trump was tackled by Secret Service agents on the fifth hole as shots were fired in his direction.
Police later found a backpack near the Florida golf course containing an AK-47 and a GoPro camera. The suspect fled in a vehicle but was apprehended in a neighboring county.
Update: Citizens app says the FBI is investigating at legitimate attempt on Trump’s life.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is safe after an incident on Sunday in which two people exchanged gunfire outside his Florida golf club, the New York Post said, citing law enforcement sources.
There is little information on this and we can’t verify any of it.
Trump’s campaign had earlier said he was safe following gunshots in his vicinity but gave no details.
Citizens app says shots were exchanged outside Mar-a-lago as Donald Trump was leaving. We can’t verify at this time.
Trump campaign spokesperson Steven Cheung did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Trump was injured in an assassination attempt in Pennsylvania on July 13.
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Disgusting people on the internet wishing that Trump was killed. We’re finished as a civilized nation.
They’re just following the liberal medias propagandist lead, PYSOP!. They haven’t discouraged anyone from committing violent act’s. They’ve done nothing but to condone violence and make up excuses for it happening. That is unless you’re a conscientious conservative that says anything about it, then it’s considered violent HATE SPEECH.
Speaking of your everyday violent liberal democrat PYSOP, and the media both condoning actual violent acts. Here’s yet more proof of it. Democrat House Leader Hakeem Jeffries Responds to Second Trump Assassination Attempt By Declaring MAGA Must Be Stopped.
The ‘Alynskyites’, who make up the ENTIRE Demoncrapic scenario ARE accusing Trump of EXACTLY what they ARE doing…The msm IS their ally…
If only the local law enforcement could be in charge of this investigation and not the clowns who still can’t (won’t) tell us who’s bag of white powder that was inside the white house and why they’re still fumbling and stumbling over Trump’s last assassination attempt.
Just confirmend it was another assasination attempt.
I thought that after the first attempt “being that he was a President” that He would have had the same as Biden. This is intentional. IF I was FBI BOSS … I would have threw Punch if someone denied my request for trump to get the same protection after the FIRST GD ATTEMPT! ! Something is WAY, WAY wrong with the DUMB FBI!
And, judging from the weapon AK-47 with a scope this was not a professional. If it was Trump would be Dead. Maga people need to get Fired Up or they`ll get Him.
Sadly, I don’t trust the FBI for anything. They are so corrupt.
Ready to move to the first state that secedes from the Union.
At this point, I don’t see another election even happening.