The man who appeared to want to shoot Donald Trump yesterday had been on the scene around the ex-president fin Palm Beach for up to 12 hours, law enforcement said today.
However, even though Ryan Wesley Routh got within 500 yards of Trump, he never fired a shot. Based on tracking of Routh’s s cell phone data, the revelation by law enforcement today of the suspect’s actions on September 15 further muddied the situation as it was a sudden “off the record movement” by Trump that saw him at his Florida golf course. “He wasn’t’ supposed to go there,” Secret Service acting director Ronald Rowe Jr told the media in a joint press conference Monday.
Not that the lack of Routh pulling the trigger from the bushes on the public side of the Sunshine State golf course seemed to matter much to Trump.
On social media Monday, Trump himself raged that the “bullets are flying and it will only get worse.” In characteristic attack mode, Trump also went after “Comrade Kamala Harris” and immigrants in his extended post.
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