I came across a reading book of the separate niece of Donald Trump, Mary Trump, the day before a man wait in the bushes in Florida with the intention, suspect the authorities, to assassinate the former president.
Mary Trump, democrat and fierce critic of her uncle, rummed that with his wealth, Trump could go anywhere in the world, but he chose to spend his time to his golf course in Bedminster, New Jersey.
The commentary made the crowd gathered in a DC bookstore, has clearly constituted more fans of Mary than Donald.
Trump likes golf.
He has 16 courses, most of them in the United States, But also in Scotland, Ireland and water.
When he is in his Florida residence, Mar-A-Lago, the supporters know that they could have a glimpse of him in the direction of a few kilometers towards and from the Trump international course in West Palm Beach.
It seems that Ryan Wesley Routh knew it too.
According to court documents, the initial analysis of the 58 -year -old suspect’s phone suggests that he was close to the golf course until 12 hours before An American secret service agent spotted a barrel of a sticky rifle through the fence, which prompted him to shoot several laps in his direction.
How do you protect a politician on a golf course?
When you get closer to the golf course, it is not difficult to imagine how Trump’s protection when he is heading, this is an important challenge.
The 18 -hole course covers 133 hectares, According to the club website.
Trump was playing golf on his journey at West Palm Beach when the secret service agents said they spotted a rifle among the bushes. (Reuters: Giorgio Viera))
The perimeter by our calculations is close to 4.5 kilometers, some of which operate alongside the main roads.
Palm Beach’s sheriff, Ric Bradshaw, suggested if Trump had been the current president and not the first, the “whole golf course” would have been surrounded.
President Joe Biden said in the wake of the incident that the secret services “need more aid” and urged the congress to act.
“They can decide whether they need more staff or not.”
The head of actor of the secret services Ronald Rowe insists that the protective body did everything he could on this golf course.
“The agent who visually sweeps the zone of the sixth green, saw the subject armed with what he perceived as a rifle and immediately unloaded his firearm. The subject which had no line of view to the former president, fled the premises,” he said.
“He did not firmly fired from our agent with shots reports, the protection details close to the former president immediately evacuated the president to a safe place. The protective methodologies of the secret services were in force yesterday.”
Any new staff would hardly be recruited, trained and set up before the November elections, not to mention the next Trump visit on a golf course.
Because it is difficult to see that Trump will be dissuaded from golf, even if he causes headache for his protective team and clearly presents a significant risk.
The data of the suspect’s mobile phone, according to a FBI affidavit, puts it on the scene of 1h59 until it is spotted at 1:31 p.m.
Ryan Wesley Routh was arrested after being spotted by fleeing the Florida Golf course by Donald Trud. ( County sheriff office of Martin via Reuters))
Trump’s visit to the golf course could have been scheduled for a sunny Sunday, but it was not planned.
A plastic bag containing food was part of the items recovered from the bushes site where the alleged assassin waited at night.
It seems that he has a plan.
Securing the area would involve in -depth research for the hours of the whole perimeter before Trump’s arrival at the club and continuous surveillance throughout.
Other candidates may be convinced to change their behavior in response to two alleged attempts at their lives and in the context of a generally increased level of threat, With the political violence estimated at its highest level for decades.
A potential assassin shot Trump in his ear during a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, in July.
(AP: Evan Vucci))
But it was Trump, who got up bloody on a campaign scene in Pennsylvania by pumping his fist into the air and saying “fight, fight, fight”, after an assassin’s ball hit the ear in July.
Being seen hidden would not be in conformity with the image of the strong man whom he sought to portray his faithful base.
Trump is continuously bristling attempts to brake it
“Either Trump Be Trump” is the mantra of former campaign director Corey Lewandowski, Which was recently brought back to the team.
It is believed that it is precisely because Lewandowski, a controversial figure, subscribed to this thought that Trump loves him on his orbit.
The attempts of other advisers to ensure that the Republican candidate remains on the message and disciplined continues to fail, with often comical results.
Donald Trump began to speak from behind in bulletproof glass after the first assassination attempt. (Reuters: Jonathan Drake))
“They tell me that I should be nice,” he said last month at a press conference held, wait for his golf club in New Jersey.
He spoke of his attacks against his opponent, the Democratic candidate Kamala Harris.
“I think I have the right to personal attacks. I don’t have much respect for her,” said the former president.
It should be noted that it was the week that Trump was to be sentenced after being sentenced to New York in a silent money affecting an alleged sexual connection with a Adult cinema actress.
When the guilty verdict was returned at the end of May, it seemed that it could be the most dramatic thing that would happen in what was preparing as a new resetting of the 2020 American presidential competition.
At that time, the voters settled while an octogenarian president slipped against his predecessor, a few years less.
How bad we were all.
The conviction in the New York case was first delayed, judge Juan Merchan, considered a decision of the Supreme Court on the parameters of presidential immunity.
Earlier this month, judge MARCHAN decided to postpone the hearing until the November elections in order to “avoid any, as unjustified appearance, that the procedure has been assigned or seeks to affect the presidential election which is approaching in which the defendant is a candidate”.
Trump seemed to have been lucky again and the 2024 roller coaster’s electoral mountains continued.
Between this verdict in May and now there was the debate that ended the political career of Joe Biden, an attempted assassination on Trump who almost succeeded, a late change of candidate by the Democrats, and now a second attempt at apparent assassination on the former president.
None of these apparently seismic events have moved the needle much on the polls.
Will it change the race?
All indications are that it remains a very tight breed which will be decided by a relatively lower number of voters in a handful of swing states.
Despite the story that Trump World after the butler shooting, Pennsylvania, that he was a changed man, who did not seem to get up.
After having spoken in tones of suffocated unity for a short period of the Republican National Convention, he seemed to be transformed before our eyes in his form of attacker dog and charged with grievances.
There is no reason to believe that this last apparent experience of imminent death will change or his attitude towards his security either.
It is difficult not to think often these days of the famous quote from Trump according to which he could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue and not lose the voters.
Recent events would suggest that someone was trying to shoot him, he would also escape unchanged and unchanged.
On November 5, voters will decide to give a man who seems to have many more lives left another chance to the White House.
