Surrounding donald trump when he was on the golf course. The trump international golf club spreads across 330 acres, and donald trump plays there regularly. Located in west palm beach in florida, the course is a ten minute drive from his home at mar a lago. The club s perimeter is more than three miles long. This is one part of it, right by a public road. There s a chain link fence. Beyond that, you can easily see the course. And this was the route donald trump was taking during his round. He d reached hole five. According to police, as the former president played, secret service agents walked one hole ahead, as is standard. And we re told those agents spotted a rifle sticking out of the fence. Bbc verify has concluded it was somewhere in this area, which was later cordoned off. Police say mr trump was between 300 and 500 yards away, within range of the rifle. They also released this image of a rifle fitted with a scope, to backpacks and a camera attached to the fence. These events in
Course. The trump international golf club spreads across 330 acres, and donald trump plays there regularly. Located in west palm beach in florida, the course is a ten minute drive from his home at mar a lago. The club s perimeter is more than three miles long. This is one part of it, right by a public road. There s a chain link fence. Beyond that, you can easily see the course. And this was the route donald trump was taking during his round. He d reached hole five. According to police, as the former president played, secret service agents walked one hole ahead, as is standard. And we re told those agents spotted a rifle sticking out of the fence. Bbc verify has concluded it was somewhere in this area, which was later cordoned off. Police say mr trump was between 300 and 500 yards away, within range of the rifle. They also released this image of a rifle fitted with a scope, two backpacks and a camera attached to the fence. These events in florida happened while donald trump s safety dur
Be. All of a sudden we heard shots being fired in the air. I guess probably four or five. Shots being fired in the air. I guess probably four orfive. It guess probably four or five. It sounded guess probably four orfive. It sounded like bullets but what do i know about that? the secret services do immediately after bullets. They grabbed me and we got into the cot and moved along pretty good. I was with an agent and the agent did a fantasticjob. With sunday s attack being the second attempt on donald trump s life in a little over two months, questions over the safety of presidential candidates have intensified. Our analysis editor ros atkins looks at the level of security surrounding mr trump when he was on the golf course. The trump international golf club spreads across 330 acres, and donald trump plays there regularly. Located in west palm beach in florida, the course is a ten minute drive from his home at mar a lago. The club s perimeter is more than three miles long. This is one pa
As we continue to monitor that i don 360. How did this man allegedly get within a few hundred yards of the former president, armed authorities say with a rifle and scope how does that square with the secret service s claim? they re providing the highest level of protection also tonight, despite calls from both parties to tamp down the rhetoric, donald trump is amping it up instead. And trump running mate j. D vance defended falsehoods. He spread about haitian immigrants that today brought more threats and school closings to springfield, ohio those are parents waiting for their kids. Springfield s republican mayor joins us tonight. Good evening. Thanks for joining us. We begin with what we know and don t know right now about the apparent second attempt on trump s life. The man arrested yesterday, ryan ruth, was arraigned today on federal gun charges. Authorities today said that ruth did not have the former president in his line of sight. And he was discovered by a secret service agent i
Its blocked. They blocked it off. The I 95 in florida, and pictures taken by a Passing Motorist show a large number of police surrounding a vehicle. Law enforcement officers have just detained a man suspected of attempting to assassinate Donald Trump. He was driving the black car seen here at the side of the road. The former president was playing golf on his own course when a number of gunshots were heard. A secret Service Agent had spotted a Rifle Being pointed from bushes at the edge of the course. They have an agent Thatjumps One Hole ahead of time to where the president was at, and he was able to spot this Rifle Barrel sticking out of the fence and immediately engage that individual, at which time the individual took off. The police recovered what they say is an ak 47 Style Rifle with a scope, two backpacks containing Ceramic Tiles, and a gopro camera. We are not sure right now if the individual was able to take a shot at our agents, but for sure our agents were able to to engage w