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NewsNation has peculiar sum of the 2nd attempted assassination of erstwhile President Donald Trump connected aerial and online. Read about what we cognize astir shooter Ryan Wesley Routh here and read each unrecorded updates here. Not definite however to find NewsNation connected your TV? Use our Channel Finder app.
(NewsNation) — The antheral suspected successful a 2nd attempted assassination of erstwhile President Donald Trump fled Secret Service detection, leaving down an AK-style firearm with a scope, 2 backpacks hanging connected a obstruction and a GoPro camera. A ceramic tile recovered successful 1 backpack was besides being processed.
"Certainly, it appears to maine that helium was looking to spell retired successful a blaze," erstwhile FBI Senior Executive Joshua Skulke told NewsNation. "When you look astatine the ceramic tiles, the high-powered rifle, helium was surely prepared for a confrontation."
Palm Beach County authorities said the suspect, identified arsenic Ryan Wesley Routh, was spotted hiding successful the bushes aft helium allegedly pushed the muzzle of an AK-style firearm done the obstruction perimeter of the play people adjacent wherever the erstwhile president was playing.
A U.S. Secret Service cause saw the firearm and opened occurrence astatine the man, who fled the scene, leaving down the items successful a makeshift sniper's den.
"I deliberation it looks a batch similar those are ceramic plates usually utilized for extortion against high-powered rifles. A batch of subject and instrumentality enforcement deterioration them successful a high-risk operation," Skulke said. "It allows ... them amended extortion than the flak overgarment oregon bulletproof vest they're wearing. That's what it looks similar to me."
The incidental occurred astir 2 months aft the Trump was shot during an assassination effort astatine a rally successful Pennsylvania.
As details connected the Florida shooting fishy emerge, including a 2002 condemnation of possessing a limb of wide destruction and a criminal past successful North Carolina, questions astir the erstwhile president's information person been raised.
"Understand that the Secret Service doesn't person the power implicit the erstwhile president," Skulke said. "The president inactive has escaped volition and tin bash things that helium wants, and sometimes there's a struggle betwixt what the protectee wants to do" and what the information item would prefer.
No 1 was injured successful the incident, which occurred astir 5 miles distant from the president’s Mar-a-Lago residence.
"We cognize that this is simply a high-threat situation for a batch of our governmental leaders and particularly erstwhile President Trump," Skulke said.
Skulke said the information protocols that the Secret Service had successful spot worked.
"We were precise fortunate that the idiosyncratic was not capable to get a changeable disconnected and it's precise concerning," Skulke said. "There volition person to beryllium different measures enactment into spot and surely discussed with the erstwhile president."
