{"id":107225,"date":"2024-09-18T12:03:43","date_gmt":"2024-09-18T12:03:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/trump-praises-secret-service-response-to-apparent-assassination-attempt\/"},"modified":"2024-09-18T12:03:43","modified_gmt":"2024-09-18T12:03:43","slug":"trump-praises-secret-service-response-to-apparent-assassination-attempt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/trump-praises-secret-service-response-to-apparent-assassination-attempt\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump praises Secret Service response to apparent assassination attempt"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-09-18\/GETTY_91824_TrumpinMichigan.jpg\" alt><figcaption>Former U.S. President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump attends a town hall meeting moderated by Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders at the Dort Financial Center in Flint, Michigan, on Sept. 17, 2024. (JEFF KOWALSKY\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>(WASHINGTON) &#8212; Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday praised the Secret Service for stopping an apparent assassination attempt Sunday, speaking in a phone interview with ABC News.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m fine. The Secret Service did a good job, actually,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>A Secret Service agent fired several shots at Ryan Wesley Routh, who was allegedly concealed in a tree line armed with a rifle at the Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Florida, about 300 to 500 yards from the Republican presidential nominee, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect was able to get into a car and drive off, but was stopped by law enforcement.<\/p>\n<p>He appeared in court on Monday and currently faces two felony gun charges. The investigation is ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>Trump spoke about the heightened threat environment, telling ABC News, &#8220;Probably always been dangerous, but it&#8217;s more so now, I think.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He reiterated satisfaction with how the Secret Service handled Sunday&#8217;s incident.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;On that on that event, I thought they were excellent,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Trump also discussed his phone call with President Joe Biden following the incident, calling the conversation &#8220;very, very nice.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He called me just to, you know, express his sort of horror that a thing like that could happen. But it was a very good conversation,&#8221; Trump said.<\/p>\n<p>Trump said Biden told him he wants to be sure the Secret Service has all the resources it needs to do its job, adding, &#8220;I hope that is the case.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former U.S. President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump attends a town hall meeting moderated by Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders at the Dort Financial Center in Flint, Michigan, on Sept. 17, 2024. (JEFF KOWALSKY\/AFP via Getty Images) (WASHINGTON) &#8212; Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday praised the Secret Service<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/trump-praises-secret-service-response-to-apparent-assassination-attempt\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156,31,2],"tags":[273,271,276,274,270,123,275,133,124,272,102,103],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107225"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107225\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}