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(NewsNation) — What the FBI is calling another attempted assassination connected erstwhile President Donald Trump is the merchandise of "mentally sick radical with entree to weapons," Bill O'Reilly told "NewsNation Prime"
A antheral with an AK-style rifle pushed the firearm’s muzzle done the perimeter of the Trump International Golf Course connected Sunday astir 1:30 p.m., according to Palm Beach County Sheriff Ric Bradshaw.
Secret Service fired at the man, who was hidden successful bushes, and helium fled successful a car. He’s since been taken into FBI custody, with a instrumentality enforcement root naming him as Ryan Wesley Routh to NewsNation.
It’s the 2nd effort connected the GOP nominee’s beingness successful caller months. In July, the former president was shot during a rally successful agrarian Pennsylvania.
"We unrecorded successful a unsafe country. And we ever have," O'Reilly said. "This is the ninth progressive assassination effort connected a president”
“It is heightened due to the fact that of the volatile governmental system, but this is thing new,” O'Reilly said.
He blames guns and "people with entree to weapons who, for immoderate crazy, delusional reason, are consenting to springiness up their ain lives to effort to propulsion disconnected thing similar this," citing the government's deficiency of follow-through connected projected weapon policies.
"If they truly wanted to power weapon crimes and dense weapons, you would federalize each transgression acts utilizing a firearm. That's the lone mode you could perchance bash it successful a federation of 300 cardinal guns connected the street. But, no, neither enactment volition adjacent see that. So, it's ne'er going to get solved," O'Reilly explained.
The writer and longtime writer told NewsNation Trump should usage this incidental — and wide sympathy — to crook a caller leafage for his campaign.
"He's got different accidental present to reassess," O'Reilly said. "And helium did that reasonably good astatine the Republican Convention, you whitethorn remember, but past it got backmost the aforesaid old, aforesaid old."
But he's not hopeful it'll hap — conscionable arsenic he's not hopeful the Secret Service's existent standards are up to snuff erstwhile enactment against modern weapons.
"The Secret Service needs a full overhaul. The conceptualization of however to support statesmanlike candidates has got to beryllium reviewed and heightened," helium said.
