NBC News anchor Lester Holt was quick to blame former President Donald Trump — along with his running mate, Senator JD Vance (R-OH) — for the heated campaign rhetoric that he ultimately linked to what appears to be a second assassination attempt on Trump’s life. Holt suggested — just hours after United States Secret Service agents stopped the second would-be Trump assassin in eight weeks — that comments from both Trump and Vance about the impact of a massive influx of Haitian migrants on a small Ohio town had led not only to that but to threats against hospitals and schools in that town. WATCH: NBC’s Lester Holt: “Today’s apparent assassination attempt comes amid increasingly fierce rhetoric on the campaign trail. Mr. Trump, his running mate JD Vance continue to make baseless claims about Haitian immigrants” in Springfield, Ohio, resulting in bomb threats. pic.twitter.com/apw9WQ1liR — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) September 15, 2024 “Today’s apparent assassination attempt comes amid increasingly fierce rhetoric on the campaign trail itself. Mr. Trump, his running mate JD Vance continue to make baseless claims about Haitian immigrants in Ohio,” Holt said, adding, “This weekend there were new bomb threats in that town.” Both Dana Bash on CNN and Margaret Brennan on CBS News attempted to tie Vance to the threats in Ohio, saying that he and Trump were responsible for amplifying the very real concerns voiced by Ohioans who lived in the communities most impacted by the migrant crisis. Vance pushed back, saying that the concerns of his constituents were valid and his willingness to talk about them was unconnected to the threats. He also challenged Bash directly, saying that her tone was more reminiscent of a “Democratic propagandist” than an American journalist. Neither Holt nor any of the others made any mention of the rhetoric being promoted by prominent Democrats like House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), who posted via X, “Extreme MAGA Republicans are the party of a national abortion ban and Trump’s Project 2025. We must stop them.” A short time later, he added, “Political violence has no place in a democratic society.”

Democrat Palm Beach County Sheriff Ric Bradshaw said at a press conference on Sunday following another attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump that law enforcement would take protecting the Republican presidential nominee more seriously if he was the sitting president and not just a candidate. Bradshaw made the remarks at a press conference following the attempted assassination at Trump International Golf Course West Palm Beach, the second assassination attempt that he has survived in the last two months. “The golf course is surrounded by shrubbery, so when somebody gets into the shrubbery, they’re pretty much out of sight,” he said in attempting to explain away the security failures that led to another attempt on Trump’s life. “And at this level that he is at right now, he’s not the sitting president,” he continued. “If he was, we would have had this entire golf course surrounded. But because he’s not, the security is limited to the areas that the Secret Service deems possible.” Secret Service representative Rafael Barros was asked what, if anything, the Secret Service has done differently to protect Trump after he was shot during an assassination attempt in July. “The threat level is high,” Barros said. “We have increased the amount of assets that we’ve supported. So we are, we live in danger (sic) times.” The suspect was armed with an AK-47 and was only a few hundred yards away from Trump when the Secret Service reportedly engaged him, causing him to flee the area. A witness who saw him get into a vehicle and speed off got a photo of the car and license plate which allowed law enforcement to quickly locate and apprehend the suspect. WATCH: Sheriff Ric Bradshaw says that because Trump is not the sitting president that he is not given complete perimeter protection, even though someone shot him just a couple months ago He said if Trump was president then law enforcement would take protecting him more seriously pic.twitter.com/BXpcHgnFHj — Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) September 15, 2024

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Editor’s note: This article was originally published Aug. 26. Radio talk-show host and podcaster Dan Bongino, a former Secret Service agent, predicted another “incident” with the Secret Service, claiming that the agency is worse off today than it was before the assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump on July 13 in Butler, Pennsylvania. After Congress began to ask then-Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle about the assassination attempt, Cheatle resigned, leading Ronald L. Rowe Jr. to step in as interim director. Rep. Eli Crane, R-Ariz., asked Bongino, “Is the Secret Service in a better spot today with Director Rowe in charge?” “No, it’s worse,” Bongino replied. He predicted that “something else” will happen, although he added, “I pray to my Lord and savior Jesus Christ that I’m wrong.” “[If] you think this is the last incident, you’re out of your mind,” he said. The former Secret Service agent said Rowe represents more of “the same people” in charge on July 13. “Kim Cheatle, the director, wasn’t even fired. She was allowed to resign,” Bongino noted. “She’ll go get some cushy job somewhere, and her deputy” got promoted. Bongino said whistleblowers within the Secret Service told him that Rowe “was concerned about the tie color of the agents on the detail because it seemed to imply they supported President Trump. This is the kind of stuff the Secret Service was actually wasting their time with.” “If you can explain it, then good luck, because that’s not the agency I worked for,” he quipped. Seeking Answers Bongino spoke at a forum on the July 13 assassination attempt on Trump, responding to questions from five Republican members of Congress: Andy Biggs and Eli Crane of Arizona, Matt Gaetz and Cory Mills of Florida, and Chip Roy of Texas. Erik Prince, a former Navy SEAL and founder of the private military contractor Blackwater, and Ben Shaffer, a Washington regional SWAT operator who assisted in security on July 13, also answered the lawmakers’ questions. Speaking at The Heritage Foundation near the U.S. Capitol, the congressmen presented video clips from July 13, showing that members of the crowd at the Butler speech had attempted to alert police to the presence of Thomas Crooks, the 20-year-old man who opened fire at Trump—an hour before the shooting. Mills asked Shaffer a series of questions clarifying how poorly Secret Service had prepared for a potential threat. Shaffer confirmed that Secret Service “didn’t take the communication platform that was given by local forces,” that the agency “didn’t take the surveillance drone offered by local forces,” and that agents “didn’t show up for the morning briefing to ensure that last-minute planning could be accounted for.” He also confirmed that Secret Service “did not access the water tower that has the highest vantage point.” ?Ben Shaffer, a Washington regional SWAT operator who took part in the security in the July 13 assassination attempt on Trump, goes through all the ways Secret Service did NOT accept help from the police forces on the ground. Secret Service: didn't take communication, didn't… pic.twitter.com/M46jU18DT6— Tyler O'Neil (@Tyler2ONeil) August 26, 2024 Biggs noted that rallygoers had first attempted to alert police to Crooks at 5:10 p.m., fully an hour before the shooting took place at 6:11 p.m. Shaffer said pictures of the shooter came across his text chat at “approximately 5:38 p.m.” He learned “within minutes” that Crooks had a range finder, which would have “automatically escalated” Crooks from a “suspicious person to a person of interest,” the level right below a “threat.” Crooks’ position lay outside Shaffer’s sector of responsibility and outside his visual range, the SWAT operator said. Jill Biden Comparison “President Trump was definitely deprived of resources that day,” Prince noted. The Secret Service “had one-third the amount of agents covering him as were covering Jill Biden in the same region at an indoor event,” he said. “She had 12 post-holders covering her, again no statutory or constitutional authority for the first lady. Donald Trump had four Secret Service agents assigned.” ‘Point-Blank Range’ Prince noted “140 yards is point-blank range” for a sniper. “Thank God that 20-year-old aimed for a headshot at President Trump, because if he had aimed center-mass, President Trump would probably be dead.” “A Hezbollah team, or ISIS, or you name the terrorist organization that actually knows what they’re doing, would have been successful that day,” the former SEAL added. “The Secret Service was nearly defeated by a 20-year-old, and we all, including Donald Trump, dodged a bullet that day.” ‘Grade School-Level Politics’ Gaetz asked Bongino why it seems that Trump, “one of the most threatened people on the planet earth,” deals with “limited protection.” Bongino emphasized that Secret Service “was definitely not a political enterprise” when he worked there. Yet he suggested that politics likely played a motive in the Secret Service decreasing Trump’s protective detail. “I absolutely believe Donald Trump and an enhanced security posture he should have had would have made him look more presidential, would have facilitated the logistical operation of him traveling,” Bongino said. “I think they were concerned about optics and making him look like a bigshot or whatever word you want to throw out there.” “They were making some of these decisions based purely on grade school-level politics,” he lamented. “I don’t want to believe that,” Gaetz responded. “I didn’t want to believe it with the FBI, either. … A lot of these agencies that have been, I think, subject to political capture. We want to think of them as above that.” ?'CONCERNED ABOUT OPTICS': Dan Bongino suggests the Secret Service understaffed Trump's protective detail because more personnel would have made him "look more presidential," more "like a bigshot." “They were making some of these decisions based purely on grade school-level… pic.twitter.com/sSf4Ast35y— Tyler O'Neil (@Tyler2ONeil) August 26, 2024 Rep. Laurel Lee, R-Fla., announced Monday that members of Congress launched the Bipartisan Task Force to Investigate the Attempted Assassination of Donald Trump. “On July 13, 2024, the American people witnessed a catastrophic security failure that nearly resulted in the loss of President Trump’s life,” Lee said in a press release. “The United States Secret Service has a no-fail mission to protect America’s leaders, and unfortunately, they failed at their core mission that day.” The task force, which consists of seven Republicans and six Democrats, aims to understand what went wrong on July 13, to ensure accountability, and to prevent such an agency failure from happening again. The post Dan Bongino Predicts Another Security ‘Incident,’ Says Secret Service Is Worse Today Than Before Trump Assassination Attempt appeared first on The Daily Signal.

For the second time in three months there was an assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump. “The FBI has responded to West Palm Beach Florida and is investigating what appears to be an attempted assassination of former President Trump,” the FBI said in a statement Sunday afternoon. “Authorities just acknowledged if President Trump was president, they’d do more to protect him,” wrote Rep. Steve Scalise, who was shot by a gunman in 2017 when practicing with Republicans for the Congressional baseball game. “This must change.” “There have been TWO attempts on Trump’s life,” added the House majority leader. “Secret Service must up their level of protection of him to their FULL capabilities—including expanding the perimeter.” Authorities just acknowledged if President Trump was president, they'd do more to protect him.This must change.There have been TWO attempts on Trump’s life.Secret Service must up their level of protection of him to their FULL capabilities—including expanding the perimeter. pic.twitter.com/1EuT7HLEoS— Steve Scalise (@SteveScalise) September 15, 2024 While Trump was golfing in West Palm Beach, Florida on Sunday, authorities say a man put the muzzle of a rifle through a chain link fence around the course Trump was on. According to Fox News, the man was between 300 and 500 yards from Trump. When the man put the gun through the fence, the Secret Service opened fire. According to the New York Post, the man had a GoPro on the fence which was likely intended to be used to video the shooting. The man fled the scene and was later apprehended. The New York Post, citing unnamed law enforcement sources, said the alleged gunman is Ryan Routh. “Routh, who has a lengthy criminal record from North Carolina, frequently posted about politics and exclusively donated to Democratic candidates and causes dating back to 2019. He also bashed Trump in an April 22 post on X in which he declared, ‘DEMOCRACY is on the ballot and we cannot lose,'” reported the Post. The Trump campaign put out a statement shortly after the shooting. “There were gunshots in my vicinity, but before rumors start spiraling out of control, I wanted you to hear it first: I AM SAFE AND WELL,” his statement read. “Nothing will slow me down. I WILL NEVER SURRENDER! I will always love you for supporting me. Unity. Peace. Make America Great Again.” BREAKING: Statement from President Trump re shooting: pic.twitter.com/x2lPF9yTUm— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) September 15, 2024 There was a flood of reactions to the second assassination attempt on social media, including those saying a second assassination attempt showed the need for more answers about Trump’s security. “[W]e must ask ourselves how an assassin was allowed to get this close to President Trump again?” said Rep. Elise Stefanik, House Republican Conference chair, in a statement. “There continues to be a lack of answers for the horrific assassination attempt in Pennsylvania and we expect there to be a clear explanation of what happened today in Florida.” “Thankfully, God continues to watch over President Trump,” the New York Republican added. “Why isn’t the Biden-Harris Secret Service protecting Donald Trump?” posted Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., on X. Trump’s vice-presidential running mate, Sen. J.D. Vance, R-Ohio, wrote “I’m glad President Trump is safe. I spoke to him before the news was public and he was, amazingly, in good spirits.” I'm glad President Trump is safe. I spoke to him before the news was public and he was, amazingly, in good spirits. Still much we don't know, but I'll be hugging my kids extra tight tonight and saying a prayer of gratitude.— JD Vance (@JDVance) September 15, 2024 Vice President Kamala Harris put out a statement on X. “I have been briefed on reports of gunshots fired near former President Trump and his property in Florida, and I am glad he is safe. Violence has no place in America,” she wrote. I have been briefed on reports of gunshots fired near former President Trump and his property in Florida, and I am glad he is safe. Violence has no place in America.— Vice President Kamala Harris (@VP) September 15, 2024 Former White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer wrote that the Secret Service needs to treat Trump as a sitting president and increase his security. After two unsuccessful assassination attempts against Trump, the USSS should stop treating him as a candidate. They need to treat him as they would a sitting POTUS, especially by expanding the protective perimeter around him.Stop being bureaucratic. Do what’s necessary.— Ari Fleischer (@AriFleischer) September 15, 2024 Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., posted on X an interview he’d done with Fox News in the morning before the incident where he talked about the need to reform the Secret Service. These were my concerns this morning, before the second assassination attempt against President Trump.Now, it is imperative that we move Secret Service out from under the Department of Homeland Security and back to the Treasury Department, where they had more focus.Also, it is… pic.twitter.com/C1siXgON4m— Lindsey Graham (@LindseyGrahamSC) September 15, 2024 Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, wrote that the FBI needs to be more transparent about its investigation into the incident. I’m glad Pres Trump is ok In aftermath of another assassination attempt & FBI investigation we need regular updates from FBI so American ppl know what’s going on MORE TRANSPARENCY FRM FBI— Chuck Grassley (@ChuckGrassley) September 15, 2024 Sen. Majority Leader Chuck Schumer wrote, “I was just briefed by the Acting Director of the Secret Service. I applaud the Secret Service for their quick response to ensure former President Trump’s safety.” I was just briefed by the Acting Director of the Secret Service. I applaud the Secret Service for their quick response to ensure former President Trump’s safety.There is no place in this country for political violence of any kind. The perpetrator must be prosecuted to the…— Chuck Schumer (@SenSchumer) September 15, 2024 Rep. Claudia Tenney, R-N.Y., wrote that “It is inexplicable that this happened again.” It is inexplicable that this happened again. At this point, the threat level against President Trump requires the same, if not more Secret Service protection than a sitting President.— Rep. Claudia Tenney (@RepTenney) September 15, 2024 MSNBC host Alex Witt asked a guest if the Trump campaign should turn down the rhetoric. WATCH: MSNBC's Alex Witt argues *the Trump campaign* needs to turn down the rhetoric now that Donald Trump has been shot at for the second time in three months. "Do you expect there to be calls from within the Trump campaign to [tone it down]?"Elise Jordan replies she hopes… pic.twitter.com/NGjxqIsTPR— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) September 15, 2024 Kiersten Pels, the communication director for Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., wrote that it was “truly horrifying” that we now have to qualify which Trump assassination attemprt we are referring to. I can’t believe that when referencing the Trump attempted assassination we’re now going to have to qualify WHICH one. Truly horrifying— kiersten pels (@KierstenPels) September 15, 2024 This is a breaking news story and it may be updated. The post ‘TRULY HORRIFYING’: Questions Swirl After Second Trump Assassination Attempt appeared first on The Daily Signal.