Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump escaped an alleged assassination attempt for the second time in two months on Sunday, September 15. The day after the incident, the former president responded for the first time, according to comments reported by Fox News.
Donald Trump claimed that the suspect “adhered to (Joe) Biden and (Kamala) Harris’ rhetoric and acted accordingly”He also denounced the responsibility of the Democrats. “Their rhetoric makes me get shot at, even though I am the one who is going to save the country and they are the ones who are destroying it, from the inside and the outside.”he assured according to the continuous television channel.
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Charged with “illegal possession of a weapon”
The former president who said “safe and sound”was on the course of his golf club when “ gunshots » were drawn “nearby”according to his campaign team on Sunday. The suspect, who the Secret Service has acknowledged is not yet certain whether he fired at the area of the golf course where Donald Trump was playing, was arrested and taken into custody on Sunday.
US media have named a pro-Ukrainian American, Ryan Wesley Routh, as the perpetrator of the alleged assassination attempt. On Monday, he was charged with illegal possession of a weapon and possession of a weapon with an obliterated serial number, during his first appearance before a federal judge in Florida. This procedure will allow investigators to keep him in custody while other charges are brought against him.
Hidden in bushes
Authorities said Secret Service agents spotted him and opened fire on him as he hid in bushes near the edge of Donald Trump’s golf course, just a few hundred yards from where the former president was on the green.
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An AK-47 assault rifle and other equipment were left at the scene by the suspect after he attempted to flee.
The assassination attempt comes just two months after Donald Trump was shot at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania and suffered minor injuries to his right ear.
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