The suspect “did not shoot” based on the Secret Service | EUROtoday

LThe suspect arrested within the investigation into the alleged assassination try on Donald Trump “did not fire a shot,” Ronald Rowe, performing director of the Secret Service, which is liable for defending senior American political figures, mentioned Monday. Spotted by an agent who opened hearth on him, “the suspect, who had no line of sight to the former president, fled. He did not fire a shot,” he mentioned at a information convention in West Palm Beach, Florida.

“We have no information at this time that he acted with the assistance of anyone else,” mentioned Ronald Rowe. “The suspect did not even come close to firing a shot and we apprehended him and brought him to justice,” mentioned Sheriff Ric Bradshaw. According to the conclusions created from the surveillance of the suspect's telephone, he would have spent almost 12 hours across the former president's golf membership earlier than being noticed.

Trump overwhelms Biden and Harris

Donald Trump on Monday blamed the alleged assassination try on him on assaults by outgoing President Joe Biden and his Democratic opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris. The suspect “believed in the narrative of Biden and Harris, and acted accordingly,” the previous president instructed Fox News, repeating accusations he had made after the assassination try he escaped on July 13. “Because of this narrative from the communist left, bullets are flying and it’s only going to get worse,” he later added on his Truth Social community.

The marketing campaign thus continues below the signal of violence, greater than two months after a primary assassination try in opposition to the Republican candidate within the presidential election on November 5. “I have always condemned political violence. I will always condemn it,” reacted the Democratic president, calling for the decision of disputes between Americans “peacefully at the ballot box, not at gunpoint.”

Illegal possession of a weapon

Presented earlier than a choose on Monday in Florida (southeast), Ryan Wesley Routh, a 58-year-old pro-Ukrainian American whom AFP had interviewed in 2022 in kyiv the place he had gone to assist the Ukrainian folks, was served with fees of unlawful possession of a weapon as a result of his legal file and possession of a weapon with an obliterated serial quantity.

In addition to those fees, which carry most sentences of 15 years and 5 years in jail respectively, he’s anticipated to face different prosecutions at a later date. His subsequent look, on his continued detention, has been set for September 23 and his formal indictment every week later.

Attorney General Merrick Garland mentioned his workplace would commit “all available resources” to the investigation.