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(NewsNation) — Rep. Glenn Ivey, D-Md., believes what the FBI calls an "attempted assassination" against erstwhile President Donald Trump was thwarted owed to an "increased extortion detail."
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 astatine 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 arsenic Ryan Wesley Routh to NewsNation.
Ivey told NewsNation that heightened information for aggregate high-profile politicians has been “in the works already” and that it “may beryllium wherefore things worked retired the mode they did today.”
"An accommodation has been made. We were briefed, actually, connected Friday by the acting manager of the Secret Service, and connected the bid of President Biden, there's been accrued extortion item for erstwhile President Trump, Vice President Harris and immoderate others," Ivey said.
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.
"This is beyond authorities astatine this we conscionable request to marque definite that things are going well, that the Secret Service is protecting our elected officials and immoderate spectators of nationalist events," Ivey said.
