Ryan Wesley Routh Named as Suspect in Trump Assassination Attempt.

Ryan Wesley Routh is the suspect in the second assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump, according to The New York Post. There was a second attempt to murder President Donald Trump by an assassin wearing a Go Pro and toting an AK-47-style rifle today at the Trump International Golf Club in Florida. Trump is safe and unharmed, a Secret Service official said in a news conference Sunday evening. However, serious questions remain after the second assassination attempt: How did the suspect make it on the golf course while Trump was playing? How did the gunman get so close to Trump? How did the gunman get off the golf course without being initially apprehended by law enforcement? Trump was "playing golf at the time, moving between holes five and six," CNN reported. The gunman "was 300 to 500 yards away from Trump," according to CNN.

Ryan Wesley Routh: What Is Known About the Assassination Attempt

Authorities said a Secret Service agent who was scouting the golf course ahead of Trump opened fire at the suspect after seeing his gun barrel poking through a fence. The assassination attempt comes after Trump was shot in Butler, Pennsylvania, after the Secret Service failed to clear a nearby roof, among other systemic and egregious security failures. The assassination attempt also comes as Democrats, including Vice President Kamala Harris, have engaged in dangerous and incendiary rhetoric against Trump, such as warning the public that he would be a "dictator" if elected again. In Sunday's attack, authorities gave these facts in the news conference:

• The call came into the Sheriff's Department as "shots fired" around 2 p.m., West Palm Beach Sheriff Ric Bradshaw said.
• A witness told Sheriff's officials, "I saw the guy running out of the bushes. He jumped into a black Nissan. He took a picture of the vehicle and tag."
• The Sheriff's Department's real-time crime center put the information out to license plate readers, and authorities "got a hit on that vehicle on I-95." Another Sheriff's Department in Florida spotted the vehicle, pulled it over, and "detained the guy." The witness then identified that man as "the person he saw running out of the bushes," Bradshaw said.
• The suspect's name and background have not been released.
• In the bushes, "where this guy was," authorities recovered an AR-style rifle with a scope, two backpacks that were hung on a fence with ceramic tiles in them, and a Go-Pro the suspect was going to use to "take pictures," said Bradshaw.
• Sheriff's officials praised a Secret Service agent on the golf course who saw a rifle barrel sticking out of the fence. The Secret Service agent then opened fire on the gunman who was "near the property line."
• They are moving the suspect to the County Jail. The FBI is the lead investigative agency.
• State prosecutors are working on warrants and a motion for pretrial detention for the suspect. That does not preclude federal charges.
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