The FBI said it is investigating what appears to be an attempted assassination of Donald Trump at his Florida golf club Sunday, the second time in two months there’s been an apparent attempt on his life. Trump was not harmed in the incident, his campaign said.
President Joe Biden wants Congress to give the US Secret Service “more help” in the wake of the second apparent attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump, he told reporters Monday. “Thank God the president is okay,” Biden said.
Detained suspect:
Suspect Ryan Wesley Routh is appeared at a federal court in Florida yesterday morning after being taken into custody after being stopped on the highway. Federal prosecutors have not yet announced what charges Routh will face.
The man detained in Sunday’s apparent assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump was so calm when he was stopped it was “perplexing,” the sheriff of Martin County, Florida, recalled.
“His facial affect was so flat. His demeanor was relaxed,” Sheriff William Snyder told CNN on Monday morning. “I honestly thought it looked like somebody that had just left the church picnic and was on his way home.”
Despite the commotion surrounding his apprehension – the area “crawling with law enforcement … SWAT team (that) had gotten out their rifles, helicopter, I-95 shut down, a bomb dog” – the man never even asked why he got pulled over, Snyder said.
“He was just calm, really, as if he was going for dinner,” the sheriff said.
More on the suspect:
Routh, who owns a small Hawaii construction company, had criticized Trump on social media and was a staunch supporter of Ukraine. A Secret Service agent spotted a rifle sticking out of a fence along the golf club perimeter Sunday and engaged the suspect, the Palm Beach County sheriff said Sunday.
Credit: cnn.com
