“Suspect in assassination attempt on Trump waited 12 hours at golf resort A man has been charged with two weapons-related crimes after an incident at Trump’s golf resort. Phone records show the suspect may have waited for nearly 12 hours, camping out with weapons and food.”, — write on: unn.ua
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While the new charges are likely, the original charges — possession of a firearm as a convicted felon and possession of a firearm with a removed serial number — allow him to be held pending an investigation. Trump, the Republican presidential candidate in the Nov. 5 election, was unharmed. But the incident raised new questions about how an armed suspect was able to get so close to him, just two months after another assailant shot at Trump during a July 13 rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, injuring his ear.
The US Secret Service opened fire after an agent spotted a rifle barrel sticking out of bushes on Sunday at Trump’s West Palm Beach golf resort, a few hundred yards from where the former president was playing. According to the complaint, the armed man fled in an SUV. Officers found a loaded assault rifle with a scope, a digital camera and a bag of food that had been left at the scene.
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The suspect, identified Monday as 58-year-old Ryan Rouse, was pulled over about 40 minutes later as he was driving north on Interstate 95. When asked if he knew why he was pulled over, Rouse “said yes,” according to the complaint . The license plate on his car was registered as stolen from another car.
Records show a phone linked to Rouse had been at the golf resort since 1:59 a.m. (0559 GMT) on Sunday, 11.5 hours before the incident. Rouse has at least two prior felony convictions in North Carolina, according to the criminal complaint. In 2002, Rouse pleaded guilty to possession of an unregistered automatic weapon, which North Carolina law defines as a weapon of mass destruction, and was sentenced to probation. In 2010, he was convicted of possession of stolen property.
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Trump’s campaign schedule will remain unchanged, a source familiar with the matter said. Trump plans to launch a new cryptocurrency business on the social network X on Monday night, as well as hold a town meeting in Michigan on Tuesday and a rally on Wednesday in New York.
Trump has accused President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic presidential candidate, of attempting to assassinate him. He claimed the suspected attacker acted under the influence of “very provocative language” from Democrats, although authorities have yet to provide evidence of any motive.
“Their rhetoric is putting me under fire when I’m the one saving the country and they’re the one destroying the country, both from the inside and the outside,” he said, according to Fox.
On Sunday, Harris wrote on the X social network: “Violence has no place in America.” Speaking at an event in Philadelphia on Monday, Biden said, “In America, we resolve our differences peacefully at the polls, not with guns.”
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