{UAH} SECRET SERVICE CAN NOT PROTECT TRUMP WITHOUT ADDITIONAL SECURITY ARRANGEMENTS

Secret Service tells Trump agency can’t protect him on his golf courses without additional security arrangements: report

By Alex Oliveira

Published Sep. 17, 2024

 Updated Sep. 17, 2024, 4:44 p.m. ET

The Secret Service has told Donald Trump that agents cannot keep him safe on his golf courses without significantly enhancing his security arrangements, according to reports.

 

A second assassination attempt on Trump in the past two months was foiled this past Sunday.REUTERS

Acting Secret Service Director Ronald Rowe informed the former president that a major increase in security resources and coordination is needed if he wants to keep playing golf at some of his sources, according to the New York Times.

The recommendation came during a meeting at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago golf club in West Palm Beach, Florida, Monday — a day after alleged gunman Ryan Routh was caught laying in wait in the golf course bushes with an SKS assault rifle — just hundreds of yards from the former president as he golfed.

Trump campaign officials have complained that they have requested additional Secret Service personnel, but have not received the additional resources, according to The Times.

Here's what we know about the assassination attempt on Trump in Florida:

• Former President Donald Trump survived an assassination attempt at Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach on Sept. 15, 2024.
• Trump sent out a statement to supporters soon after to report that he was “SAFE AND WELL.”
• The suspect — identified as Ryan Routh, 58, of Hawaii — was able to get within 300 to 500 yards of Trump at a chain link fence on the edge of the course, where he had an AK-47 and a GoPro camera set up, apparently to record the planned shooting.
• Routh has a history of supporting progressive causes online and has made 19 donations to Democratic candidates since 2019.
• A Secret Service agent spotted and opened fire on Routh as he put his gun through the fence. The suspect fled and was arrested on I-95 a short time later.
• According to Palm Beach County Sheriff Ric Bradshaw, Trump’s security detail was lighter because he isn’t a sitting president — despite the previous attempt on his life in July.

News photographers have used the gaps in foliage at Trump’s West Palm Beach golf club to take pictures of him — a security gap gunman Ryan Routh exploited.

It was a tense meeting between Trump and the Secret Service, with the former president asking whether he was safe to continue golfing and director Rowe explaining how difficult it is to secure a large golf course in the direct vicinity of public roads, the Times reported.

Photographers frequently snag photos of Trump golfing at Trump International Golf Club West Palm Beach – something he brought up during the meeting, suggesting that if photographers could see him then a gunman with a scope could too, according to the newspaper.

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