The FBI is investigating a second assassination attempt against Donald Trump in just two months.
The former president was brought to safety on Sunday after multiple shots were fired around him while playing golf at a club in West Palm Beach.
A suspected gunman was arrested after a terrifying incident at the Trump International Club almost exactly two months after the gunman tried to take out Trump during a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.
Trump confirmed in a statement about an hour after the incident that he was ‘safe and sound’ and did not want rumors to ‘start spiraling out of control.’
A Secret Service advance team of the 2024 Republican nominee’s overwhelming presence found the shooter at the tree line just two holes from where Trump was playing golf.
The FBI now said two hours after the incident that the attack ‘appears to be an assassination attempt on former President Trump.’
Several shots were fired near Donald Trump’s golf club in West Pam Beach, Florida on Sunday
Donald Trump plays golf at his club in West Palm Beach on May 4, 2023
Armed suspects were stationed outside the club around the 5th and 6th holes, which a source familiar with the incident told DailyMail.com is a vulnerable area.
Multiple police sources have confirmed to the media that a ‘high-powered weapon’ was found at the scene and that he pointed the weapon at the golf course on Sunday afternoon before being shot at 2:00 p.m. The suspect’s car is also in police possession. .
The area where the suspect was first found by his security detail was two holes in front of Trump playing golf when he was shot, causing the individual to flee.
The undergrowth is cut back in this area every summer and is one of the sections of the trail closest to the road.
The incident comes as Trump’s security detail has been beefed up in the two months since the former president was shot in the ear during an assassination attempt at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania on July 13.
Trump’s golf club is just five miles from his home at the Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach and is where the former president is often seen playing golf when he’s not on the campaign trail.
Real estate investor and New York City landlord Steve Witkoff was Trump’s golf partner on Sunday, sources told DailyMail.com.
The Palm Beach Sheriff’s Department held a press conference Monday afternoon to provide an update on the shooting and revealed images of the suspect’s backpack, GoPro camera and AK-47 rifle left at the scene.
‘No one is going to slow me down,’ Trump wrote in a statement. ‘I will never give up!’
Law enforcement held a press conference Sunday evening where they revealed images of the suspect’s belongings left at the scene, including a backpack, a GoPro camera and an AK-47 rifle.
Palm Beach Sheriff’s Department vehicles were stationed outside the Trump International Golf Club on Sunday after shots were reported near where the former president was playing golf.
Traffic in West Palm Beach as police closed the road outside the Trump International Golf Club after shots were fired near the former president, who was playing golf.
President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris were aware of the shooting and were ‘relieved’ they were unharmed.
“The President and Vice President have been briefed on the security incident at the Trump International Golf Course, where former President Trump played golf,” according to the White House.
‘He was relieved to know he was safe. They will be updated regularly by the team.’
Harris, who only met Trump for the first time in person at the debate on Tuesday, responded to the shooting with a statement showing a platitude: ‘Violence has no place in America.’
“I’ve been notified of reports of shots fired near former President Trump and his property in Florida, and I’m glad he’s safe,” he wrote on X, before Twitter.
When not campaigning, Trump is often spotted golfing at a West Palm Beach club (pictured)
Trump spoke to DailyMail.com during an interview at the Mar-a-Lago club – just five miles down the road from the golf club where he was shot on Sunday.
United States Secret Service spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said in a post on X: ‘The Secret Service, along with the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office, is investigating a protective incident involving former President Donald Trump that occurred shortly before 2 p.m.’
‘The former president is safe,’ he assured, adding that the Palm Beach Sheriff’s Office will follow up on more details about the incident.
Sen. Lindsey Graham (RS.C.) said he spoke with Trump moments after the news broke.
‘He is one of the strongest men I know,’ the senator wrote in X. ‘He is passionate and more than determined to save our country.’
It is still unclear how many people were involved in Sunday’s shooting and whether the former president was targeted. It is also not known if the suspect ever fired a gun or if the shot came from the agent who directed the threat.
But just the report of the shooting near Trump raised eyebrows as several investigations were conducted into a shooting in Pennsylvania earlier this summer that left two dead, including the shooter, and two critically wounded.
A bullet grazed Donald Trump’s right ear during an assassination attempt on July 13 at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania
The shooter, Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20, was shot dead by a Secret Service agent after he managed to climb onto the roof with an AR-15 just 400 feet from where Trump was speaking and took several shots that killed one rally goer and critically injured two others. and struck the former president
Trump walked away from the assassination attempt only with a bloody ear that could have been taken fatally had it been a few millimeters different and hit his head.
But would-be killer Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20, was shot dead by the Secret Service before he could get in another shot at the former president.
An early canvass led to authorities finding her car near the rally site in Butler with explosives and her parents’ home with more bombs.
Congressional and other local and federal investigations are ongoing to discover what led to the failure that allowed the shooter to be only a few hundred feet away from Trump with an AR-15 rifle.
Rep. Mike Waltz (R-Fla.) on the House Task Force on the assassination attempt.
He said on Sunday that this proved the attack was not an ‘isolated incident’ and demanded that the Secret Service provide an overview of its duties this week.
“As I have said before, the assassination attempt on July 13 was not an isolated incident that could have been carried out in the face of domestic and foreign threats,” Waltz wrote in X.
