Questions raised over security arrangements following second apparent attempt on former president within two months
Suspect held after apparent assassination attempt against Donald Trump
Although the suspected gunman Ryan Wesley Routh was much farther away from the former president, from his vantage point at the golf course, than the man who shot Trump in an assassination attempt in Pennsylvania in July, law enforcement officials found a scope on the gun with the belongings abandoned at the fence when the man fled that would have brought Trump well within range.
Routh was described in various reports as a construction worker previously working in North Carolina. He was strong opponent of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine who had tried to recruit overseas volunteers to fight for Ukraine.