“The severity of the topic we discussed today cannot be understated,” said a statement Joyce released after the hearing. “President Trump is the luckiest man alive. A slight turn of his head and we would have witnessed something completely catastrophic on live television.
This aerial photo of the Butler Farm Show, site of the Saturday, July 13, 2024 Trump campaign rally, shown Monday, July 15, 2024 in Butler, Pa. Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump was wounded during an assassination attempt while speaking at the rally.
The task force has also started to examine a Sept. 15 incident in which Ryan Wesley Routh, 58, of Hawaii, was found hiding in the bushes with a gun on a Trump-owned golf course in Florida. Routh has been charged with attempted assassination of a major presidential candidate and faces a potential life sentence in prison if he’s convicted.
Kelly said that if the Secret Service had properly secured the site, Crooks might have returned home after scoping it for vulnerabilities. He also called it “astounding” that Trump “is ready to go back to a place where he almost lost his life.”The committee’s top Democrat, Rep.
Patrick Sullivan, a retired Secret Service agent who testified at the hearing, told Joyce that if he had noticed such security gaps, he would have taken steps necessary to fix them or told the supervisors it wasn’t safe for Trump to appear. A pair of GOP U.S. Congress members who had trained as snipers with the military and law enforcement said Trump was lucky none of the people who tried to kill him were professionals.
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