Less than a week after Vice President Kamala Harris claimed “it’s up to the American people to stop him,” referring to Donald Trump at their presidential debate, Secret Service thwarted a second assassination attempt targeting the former president at his golf course in West Palm Beach, Florida.
Just over two months after an assassin opened fire at a Trump rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, Ryan Wesley Routh camped outside of Trump International Golf Club with an AK-47, a GoPro camera, and a backpack.
Trump was at the fifth hole when a Secret Service agent saw Routh with what appeared to him to be a rifle. The would-be assassin was less than 500 yards away when the agent discharged 4-6 rounds at him.
Routh now faces two gun charges, but many Americans, including the former president, blame politicians and the media for continuing to push dangerous rhetoric that…