The immediate reaction to the news of the latest assassination attempt on President Trump was brief.
“WTF??!!” I posted on X.
Those three letters probably sum up how many people felt when they discovered that another gunman had gotten within a few hundred yards of the former president and current president-elect.
How is this happening again, just nine weeks after a bullet grazed Trump’s ear during an attack at a rally that nearly killed him?
And the more I learn about this latest incident, the more confused and angry I become.
Everyone knows that Donald Trump likes to play golf on the weekends when he is at his main residence in Palm Beach, Florida.
And everyone also knows that he usually plays at his own Trump International Golf Club.
So, any would-be assassin will have no problem with Trump playing there, as he can only monitor the public movements of the president’s long motorcade from his home, Mar-a-Lago.
In fact, it is the most obvious place for the shooter to plan the attack, isn’t it?
For four hours or more, your target is visible in the open air, and the golf course has no hiding places, from large bushes to large trees and hedges.
That’s why I would assume that after the catastrophic security failure in July, when the shooter was able to lie on the roof 150 yards from the stage of the Trump rally, the Secret Service must have been sure that no one could get close to the protected again. .
I was sadly, shockingly wrong.
This new gunman was able to hide behind a chain-link fence on a street corner, just 300-500 yards from Trump, armed with an AK-47 assault rifle and a Go-Pro camera to allegedly film, and wait for his prey to arrive a few minutes later.
Fortunately, a sharp-eyed Secret Service agent, walking one hole in front of Trump, saw the barrel of the suspect’s gun sticking out and opened fire, causing him to flee the scene.
Obviously, a great deal of credit must be given to the agent for almost certainly saving Trump’s life.
But let me applaud the Secret Service.
The reality that these shooters are capable of is yet another horrendous security failure of monstrous proportions, and an even more inexplicable and embarrassing one to come after the last one.
Why isn’t the entire perimeter of the course monitored?
The answer is staggering.
At a press conference on Sunday afternoon, Palm Beach County Sheriff Ric Bradshaw said Trump would have more security if he were still in office. “He’s not a sitting president,” Bradshaw said. “If he was, we would have surrounded the entire golf course. Since he wasn’t, security was limited to what the Secret Service thought was possible.
Here’s what we know about Trump’s assassination attempt in Florida:
Have you ever heard anything dumb?
Trump has been a big target for assassins since his presidency when he ordered the killings of Iranian general Qassim Suleimani and ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
That’s before we even factor in the fact that he was recently taken and became the Republican nominee for the General Election in just seven weeks.
But despite all this, the Secret Service apparently did not think that he wandered the golf course for hours as a death trap opportunity for assassins, which corresponds to the same level of security as part-time President Biden when he lies. the beach
The Secret Service has one primary job: to protect America’s president and vice president, past and present.
The agency has clearly failed to do this.
As Eric Trump said on Sunday night: “My father has run out of life.”
Yes, he is.
And I dread to think what will happen to America if Trump is ever assassinated.
The last Director of the Secret Service was forced to resign after the rally fiasco, and I believe the new director, Ronald Rowe, now has to go too.
As for the political ramifications of this latest assassination attempt, it can only be a huge boost for Trump, just like the last one.
Once again, he showed great coolness in a life-threatening crisis, with witnesses saying that his main concern was to make sure that the other people on the road with him at that time were OK, and that his biggest emotion, he told Fox News star Sean Hannity, was. frustrated that he couldn’t finish the hole he played because he had a birdie putt!
Love him or hate him, Trump has shown a steel ball about this threat to his life, and it will not be lost on the American public who likes his commander to be strong.
The latest incident has also completely changed a news cycle dominated by the extremely negative fallout from last week’s debate loss to Democratic rival Kamala Harris, especially the unsubstantiated and racist claim that Haitian migrants in Springfield, Ohio, are eating the neighborhood’s animals. , his self-destructive friendship with far-right conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer (You need better people around you, President Trump) and his bad decision on Sunday morning, before a round of golf, to post the words “I hate. Taylor Swift !” on the Truth Social online media platform.
There is an incredible irony that while he is suffering the worst week of the presidential race, Trump has been given the lifeline that won the election with another attempt to survive.
