In the span of just two months, former President Donald Trump has survived two assassination attempts on his life. Now experts are warning that he could potentially still be in danger. I would say that’s a pretty solid guess. Especially since the radical left is refusing to cut back on the dangerous rhetoric they keep using against him in their campaign speeches, media appearances, articles, op-eds, you name it.
“This is not the last attempt that there’ll be. They’re going to keep coming at him,” Gene Petrino, a retired SWAT commander for Florida’s Plantation Police Department for 26 years and an expert on active shooter incidents, said during an interview with Fox News Digital on Tuesday. “Other people are gonna see it that way, and the only responsible thing to do is now increase, even more, his security footprint.”
Thankfully, unlike the first attempt on his life by Thomas Matthew Crooks during a Butler, Pennsylvania campaign rally, Trump was not injured in the incident that occurred last Sunday. The former president was escorted off the green at his golf club in West Palm Beach, Florida after suspect Ryan Wesley Routh pointed a rifle in his direction from his own location just outside the perimeter of the club. He then ran from the scene but was soon caught and taken into custody on I-95.
On July 13, Trump held a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, where he was shot in the ear by 20-year-old Matthew Crooks. Crooks opened fire on the president while perched on a nearby roof, injuring two others attending the rally, and killing local dad and volunteer firefighter Corey Comperatore. The attack in July unfolded just two days ahead of the Republican National Convention kicking off in Milwaukee. Trump attended the convention despite the attack and was seen wearing a bandage over his ear when he accepted the GOP’s presidential nomination.
“The amazing thing is that prior to the shot, if I had not moved my head at that very last instant, the assassin’s bullet would have perfectly hit its mark and I would not be here tonight. We would not be together,” Trump went on to say at the RNC during his acceptance speech.
“Bullets were flying over us, yet I felt serene. But now the Secret Service agents were putting themselves in peril. They were in very dangerous territory,” Trump added. “Bullets were flying right over them, missing them by a very small amount of inches. And then it all stopped. Our Secret Service sniper, from a much greater distance and with only one bullet used, took the assassin’s life. Took him out.”
Petrino praised the quick thinking and action taken by the Secret Service and other law enforcement officers for the protection they provided for the former president during the incident on Sunday. However, the second attempt has led to a number of security experts being concerned about more tries to end Trump’s life down the road.
“They did a great job this time. They seemed to be on the ball,” he stated before going to say that he believes “there should have been more” effort on the part of Trump’s security detail to catch Routh before he was located just roughly 300 yards from the 45th president. Bill Stanton, a former NYPD officer and an executive protection expert, told Fox News Digital on Tuesday that he also fears bad actors will make another attempt on Trump’s life.
“This is my fear. When it rains, it pours … I don’t think it stops at two,” Stanton commented. Both security experts have issued a call for the security force around Trump to be increased, an action echoed by lawmakers on Capitol Hill.
“It is imperative that the USSS detail assigned to President Trump be afforded additional protective resources, including greater staffing capabilities that would allow agents to secure a broader perimeter,” Sens. Roger Marshall, R-Kan., and Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., wrote in a letter to acting Director Ronald Rowe on Tuesday. Marshall and Tuberville, joined by Sens. James Risch, R-Idaho; Mike Lee, R-Utah; Marco Rubio, R-Fla.,;Bill Cassidy, R-La.; Rick Scott, R-Fla.; and Bill Hagerty, R-Tenn., requested that Rowe and the Secret Service “designate President Trump as a protectee with the same level of protective resources afforded to a sitting president.”
If something happens to Trump, or any of the candidates really, it could cause an outbreak of chaos and division that could be impossible for our nation to come back from. It certainly would open the doors for a potential civil war. That’s the last thing our country needs. A war on our own soil. And that doesn’t necessarily mean a war carried out by conventional weapons. There are all kinds of ways for things to get heated up between the two major political ideologies jocking for control of our nation and its future.
Pray that peace remains intact, along with the very little unity we have.
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