Former President Donald Trump Experts have warned Fox News Digital that there have been two assassination attempts on him in the last two months and he may still be at risk from others.
“This is not the last attempt. They’re going to keep attacking him,” Gene Petrino, retired SWAT commander Plantation Police Department of Florida An expert in active shooter incidents for 26 years, Dr.
“Others will see it that way, too, and the only responsible thing to do now is to increase their security measures even more,” Petrino said.
Trump was safely evacuated from his golf club in West Palm Beach, Florida on Sunday after suspect Ryan Routh allegedly pointed a rifle at the 45th president just outside the club’s perimeter. Routh fled the scene but was captured a short time later on I-95.
Former President Donald Trump (left) and Ryan Routh. (Getty Images)
Officials are investigating the matter Clearly presenting the incident as a murder Efforts against Trump
On July 13, Trump held a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, where 20-year-old Matthew Crooks shot him in the ear. Crooks opened fire on the president sitting on a nearby roof, wounding two other rally attendees and killing local father and volunteer firefighter Corey Comperatore.
The attack in July occurred just two days before the Republican National Convention was to begin in Milwaukee. Despite the attack, Trump attended the convention and wore a bandage over his ear when he accepted the GOP’s presidential nomination.
“The amazing thing is, if I hadn’t moved my head at that last second before I was shot, the assassin’s bullet would have hit the mark and I wouldn’t be here tonight. We wouldn’t be together,” Trump said. In the R.N.C. in his acceptance speech.
Former President Donald Trump is injured during an assassination attempt at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, on July 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Ivan Vucci)
“I felt calm even as the bullets flew over us. But now the Secret Service agents were putting themselves in danger. They were in very dangerous territory,” Trump continued. “The bullets were flying right over them, missing them by inches. And then it all stopped. Our Secret Service sniper, from great distance and using only one bullet, took the assassin’s life. Shot him down.”
“That’s my fear. When it rains, it rains heavily… I don’t think it stops at two o’clock.”
Sunday’s attack was an apparent failed assassination attempt in which no shots were fired — unlike Crooks’ — because a Secret Service agent spotted him and fired at him first.
Ryan Routh, the armed man arrested at Trump golf course, used to post a lot about Trump and politics
Former President Donald Trump looks on during the Republican National Convention at Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee on Monday, July 15, 2024. (Photo: Eva Marie Uzcategui/Bloomberg, Getty Images)
Petrino on Sunday praised the actions of the Secret Service and other law enforcement agencies who rescued Trump before the unthinkable happened, but the effort has raised concerns among security experts.
“They did a great job this time. They seemed to be fully engaged,” he said, then added that he believed Trump’s security personnel should have “done more” to apprehend Routh before he got about 300 yards from the 45th president.
FBI investigators carry a box of evidence from the perimeter of the Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Florida, on Monday, Sept. 16, 2024. Ryan Routh was arrested earlier this week for allegedly attempting to assassinate former President Donald Trump by hiding in bushes along the golf course. (MEGA for Fox News Digital)
Former NYPD officer and executive security expert Bill Stanton told Fox News Digital on Tuesday that he also fears some bad guys will try again to take Trump’s life.
“That’s my fear,” Stanton said. “When it rains, it rains hard … I don’t think it stops till two o’clock.”
Both Stanton and Petrino called for increased security around Trump, echoing demands from Capitol Hill that Trump be provided with tighter protection after the second attempt.
“It is essential that the USSS team assigned to President Trump be provided additional protective resources, including greater staffing capabilities to allow agents to protect a broader perimeter,” Senators Roger Marshall, R-Kansas, and Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., said in a letter to acting director Ronald Rowe on Tuesday.
Marshall and Tuberville, who were joined by Senators James Risch, R-Idaho; Mike Lee, R-Utah; Marco Rubio, R-Fla.; Bill Cassidy, R-La.; Rick Scott, R-Fla.; and Bill Hagerty, R-Tennessee, requested that Rove and the Secret Service “designate President Trump as a protected person with the same level of protective resources afforded to a serving president.”
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Ryan W. Routh, suspected of trying to assassinate Republican presidential candidate and former President Donald Trump at a West Palm Beach golf course, is handcuffed after his arrest during a traffic stop near Palm City, Florida, on September 15, 2024. (Martin County Sheriff’s Office/Handout via Reuters)
Trump, as well as Petrino and Stanton, shared the blame for another round of inflammatory political rhetoric, with the former president specifically pointing to comments critical of the Biden-Harris administration.
“(Suspicious) Believed the rhetoric of Biden and Harris“He said what he did was right to save the country, and he followed through on it,” Trump told Fox News Digital on Monday. “I’m getting shot at because of his rhetoric, when I’m the one who’s supposed to save the country, and he’s the one destroying the country — from the inside and from the outside.”
In the interview, Trump pointed to past comments about President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, calling them a “threat to democracy,” while telling Americans they are leaders of “unity.”
“It’s called the internal enemy. They’re the real threat,” Trump said.
The Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Department patrols outside the Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Florida, on Monday, Sept. 16, 2024. Ryan Routh was arrested yesterday after an alleged assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump at a Florida golf course. (MEGA for Fox News Digital)
During a White House press briefing on Tuesday, Fox News’ Peter Doocy asked if the administration planned to stop using words like “threat” in light of the second assassination attempt on Trump. Doocy pointed out in his question that Trump has also made similar attacks against Biden and Harris.
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White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre defended the use of the term, citing January 6, 2021, when Trump supporters breached the US Capitol.
Trump is back on the campaign trail this week. for a campaign rally in Long Island Before the rally, false reports spread on social media that explosives had been found in a car near the location of Trump’s speech.
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Local officials quickly dismissed the reports as false, but they underscored ongoing concerns and potential threats against Trump.
