US Trump is ‘safe following gunshots in his vicinity,’ campaign says in statement - An AK-47 was discovered in the bushes, per local law enforcement

The Trump campaign on Sunday said former President Donald Trump is “safe following gunshots in his vicinity.”

“President Trump is safe following gunshots in his vicinity. No further details at this time,” Trump campaign spokesman Steven Cheung said in a statement that did not provide additional details.

The former president was playing golf at Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach. The course was immediately locked down, according to a source familiar.

The Secret Service said on X that it is working with the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office to investigate a protective incident involving Trump. The Secret Service said the incident occurred shortly before 2 p.m.

This story is breaking and will be updated.

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/09/15/politics/donald-trump-safe-shots/index.html (Archive)

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Trump taken to safety after Secret Service opens fire on man with possible gun at his Palm Beach golf club​

Donald Trump was taken to safety by the Secret Service after agents opened fire on a man who was spotted with what may have been a gun while the former president was on the links, according to law enforcement sources.

Sources said the Secret Service spotted a suspicious individual on the Trump International Golf Course West Palm Beach, and opened fire when agents saw what appeared to be the barrel of a gun.

It’s not clear whether the man was on the course or near it.

An agent opened fire, shooting multiple times.

“President Trump is safe following gunshots in his vicinity. No further details at this time,” Trump spokesman Steven Cheung said Sunday afternoon.

The man was later arrested by local police on I-95.

It comes almost exactly two months after Thomas Matthew Crooks shot Trump at a rally in Butler, Pa. on July 13 — wounding him in the ear.

Sen. Lindsey Graham took to X minutes after news of the shooting broke to laud the former president for his fortitude.

“Just spoke with President Trump. He is one of the strongest people I’ve ever known. He’s in good spirits and he is more resolved than ever to save our country.”

The West Palm Beach course is about five miles inland from Mar-a-Lago, which Trump dubbed the “Winter White House.”

The Secret Service — which came under widespread criticism following the July assassination attempt — wrote on X that it was investigating a “protective incident” involving the former president that occurred shortly before 2 p.m.

The agency said it’s coordinating with the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s office on the investigation.

Initial reports suggested two people were firing at each other. However, sources said investigators now believe the Secret Service agent was the only shooter.

The man’s motives are not yet known. He was arrested by Palm Beach County sheriff’s deputies.

The White House issued a statement soon after the incident: “The President and Vice President have been briefed about the security incident at the Trump International Golf Course, where former President Trump was golfing. They are relieved to know that he is safe. They will be kept regularly updated by their team.”

This is a developing story.

https://nypost.com/2024/09/15/us-ne...s-golf-club-while-ex-president-was-on-grounds (Archive)

 

[S.C.U.D.]

The reason there are so many SKS rifles in America is because thousands were brought back as trophies from Vietnam and the market was flooded with shitty Chinese and Yugoslav ones in the 80s.

There weren't as many bringbacks as you think there were, and Yugo SKSes didn't start to get imported in any serious quantity until the late 90s at the earliest. Chinese SKSes were only $99 several years after they were banned from import, when they were still allowed to enter the country you could pick one up at a gun shop for a mere 50 bucks, and the Chinese SKSes are anything but shitty, just like every other SKS that was imported in reasonable condition they're fine guns. But yes there are a ton of them in the country.

 

[JosephStalin]

How about you try having sex, Incel.

Folks, let's chill with the pigfighting. Instead, just put the person you have a beef with on Ignore. I do this myself. Save your time and energy for the real discussion.

 

[Hollywood Hulk Hogan]

No, I was reminding you that there was a massive social media push for democrats to try to tank trump in the republican primary.

Did you skip the multiple reposts of this guys’ donation history?

I didn't go through the whole thread, but he was a Trumper in 2016 and was a huge Vivek and Haley guy. He was definitely one of your fellow bible thumping elderly men.

I know, anytime someone on your side does something wrong your pea-sized brain just can't comprehend it so you cling to conspiracy theories and cope in unhealthy ways. You need to just accept it.

 

[GuntPatrol]

this reeks any thing and everything to divert attention from the floundering campaign.

I don't know why retards keep saying this. His "floundering campaign" is currently running a few points ahead of where he was when he defeated the last Madam President, after supposedly losing to Hillary in every debate. Honestly, a pretty pathetic showing for Kamala if you consider how in the bag the media are for her, and are constantly crowing on her behalf how a second term for Trump would mean "the end of democracy" (gee... I wonder why people keep trying to shoot him?)

 

[Glowie]

This shit glows harder than me, shit gay soy glowniggers. I woke up to this shit.

 

[MisterNeurotic]

Wow you right-wing confederate neo-Nazi far right incels, I can't believe that you think the problem are our glorious patriotic intelligence agencies and the facts about Mango Mussolini that the honest media are spilling in order to combat the rise of fascism and racism in this nation. Obviously, we need to end the 2nd Amendment since the Constitution was written by white supremacist slaveholding neo-nazis and also Trump didn't even get shot at, so what are you guys complaining about? It was an inside job to help Trump after ze got demolished by Kween Kamala in the debate, and if it wasn't, then third times the charm. Keep on coping and seething, you klansmen brownshirt blueshirt iron cross degrellian evolan rockwellian national anarchist siege accelerationist RW Twitter soyjak.party 4chan kiwifarms alt-right O9A members.

Black ppl put themselves in their own boat. Trump must be doing something right to be targeted by assassins. Simple. What rise of fascism and racism. Lol. Boy that's some liberal baby babble

 

[I Hate The Disabled]

Rate me late if you want but, how bad are Kamala's internal polling if they're trying to kill him again?

 

[Niggerlicious]

Love going through the highlights and being inundated with full throttle retardation and autism when all I want is INFORMATION. I have been lurking since 2016 and it's never been this bad to get simple information while skimming a thread.

Can we please change the highlight system to ignore negatively rated responses?

Normally I wouldn't say anything, but this thread is a perfect example of how the highlight feature needs to up the bar for negatively rated responses or nuke them from being detected from highlights entirely so they don't muddle actually informative posts. I come to Kiwi to get information that would be silenced outside of regular media.

This is fucking retarded, and it's been going on for months since autistic faggot retards have been signing up after curiosity from mainstream coverage.

I just want to know what the fuck is going on with this second assassination attempt in 2 months, we all have shit to do and I'm not skimming roughly 40 pages to get information I could get in 5 minutes through the highlight system if it stopped selecting autistic morons.

 

[Tablet County]

I don't know, there should be a limit to how much shitflinging they can do. Just give a timeout to the usual suspects like the mods did to android raptor or hand banhammer like what happened to that saul forrester guy.

I'm pretty sure Saul got hammered for suspected noncery, not just because he was being obnoxious.

In a way, he is exactly the lolcow we are meant to laugh at.

Which is exactly why he should be allowed to keep talking.

 

[RandyMiskatonic]

The surprise alliance of Randy Miskatonic and Paranoia Machine against The Dutch be like.

No, there's no alliance. You'll still get top hats from me for the rest of your life. But I know a thing or two about FlemishNiggers and other Lowland Scum.

 

[WelperHelper99]

I believe Kamala would celebrate in private if we had 4K footage of Trump's head exploding (this is easier than out-debating him) but I also believe she's a stooge who does what she is told. I imagine tomorrow we will have her disavowing the attempted shooting. Or maybe we won't, in a truly tasteless display at trying to appeal to a fringe voter base that silently wishes we had 4K footage of Trump's head exploding.

I doubt she will, she hates him too much. It's sociopathic. Even if it's only a good thing to disavow it, she won't because she wants that 4k live action footage of Trump going splat.

 

[draggs]

I didn't go through the whole thread, but he was a Trumper in 2016 and was a huge Vivek and Haley guy. He was definitely one of your fellow bible thumping elderly men.

I know, anytime someone on your side does something wrong your pea-sized brain just can't comprehend it so you cling to conspiracy theories and cope in unhealthy ways. You need to just accept it.

accept that your dangerous stochastic terrorism has resulted in two assassination attempts on a presidential candidate

https://x.com/notanokguy/status/1835437859282600301

nafofaggot hated trump

 

[Misao Hyper]

Love going through the highlights and being inundated with full throttle retardation and autism when all I want is INFORMATION. I have been lurking since 2016 and it's never been this bad to get simple information while skimming a thread.

Can we please change the highlight system to ignore negatively rated responses?

Normally I wouldn't say anything, but this thread is a perfect example of how the highlight feature needs to up the bar for negatively rated responses or nuke them from being detected from highlights entirely so they don't muddle actually informative posts. I come to Kiwi to get information that would be silenced outside of regular media.

This is fucking retarded, and it's been going on for months since autistic faggot retards have been signing up after curiosity from mainstream coverage.

I just want to know what the fuck is going on with this second assassination attempt in 2 months, we all have shit to do and I'm not skimming roughly 40 pages to get information I could get in 5 minutes through the highlight system if it stopped selecting autistic morons.

I just learned there's a highlight system. Hmm. How cool is that?

 

[Trigger Me Timbers]

>Harris gets no bump from a debate literally rigged in her favor
>Trump almost gets shot again

It'd be worrying if they weren't so reliably incompetent.

Don’t forget it was just announced Trump pulled ahead of Harris after Chicago was polled and blacks overwhelmingly supported Trump.

 

[IDF]

It's crazy how the competency crisis is unfolding. It's permeating all aspects of society but seems to be hitting large organizations the hardest. Soon it will be reverberating in the common man's daily life but we are not quite there yet. You can watch people talk that are part of the military or intelligence services or the executive branch and while they always seem confident it's not hard to scratch the surface and see they are trying to push their agendas seemingly on just a wing and a prayer because they don't have the assets in quality or quantity to achieve their goals. Once they break their money printer I think a lot of eyes will finally be opened to just how rotten things are at the top for they won't be able to paper over their continuous mistakes.

 

[CaliforniaRaisin]

Love going through the highlights and being inundated with full throttle retardation and autism when all I want is INFORMATION. I have been lurking since 2016 and it's never been this bad to get simple information while skimming a thread.

Can we please change the highlight system to ignore negatively rated responses?

Normally I wouldn't say anything, but this thread is a perfect example of how the highlight feature needs to up the bar for negatively rated responses or nuke them from being detected from highlights entirely so they don't muddle actually informative posts. I come to Kiwi to get information that would be silenced outside of regular media.

This is fucking retarded, and it's been going on for months since autistic faggot retards have been signing up after curiosity from mainstream coverage.

I just want to know what the fuck is going on with this second assassination attempt in 2 months, we all have shit to do and I'm not skimming roughly 40 pages to get information I could get in 5 minutes through the highlight system if it stopped selecting autistic morons.

This is what happens when /pol/ gets btfo by chinamoot and the rapefugees infest a forum because they're the last place they can sperg out without getting the v@n. Enjoy your skitzo posts.

 

[COME ON OUT YOU RAPIST]

By usual suspects I mean randomtwitterguy is an obvious flamer I have seen often only exists to shitpost and contribute nothing else to the conversation and to the less extent Neil sort of does too.

But Hulkster does all of these things and he's a time-honored Kiwifarms institution. Just sweep the political posters out of non-politics threads if they make themselves a nuisance.

What happens when the shot connects? Trump becomes martyred. Even when he survived the first attempt, normies and black men respected him more.

I've been reading this exact sentiment a lot, I don't believe it's the case. Trump is annoying to establishment politicians because he's more than just a wrongthinker. I can't begin to list all of the things that make him teflon but a lot of it has to do with experience in lawfare, public perception and having a lot of legitimate earnings. All of these qualities localized into someone whose opinions often boil down to nationalist sentiment. If you manage to kill him, who is left with Trump's assortment of skills? His easily-bribed family? People who will say anything for votes, like Vivek? It's no wonder the CIA is trying to see if they can get rid of him the old-fashioned way.

 

[Michael Wade]

I didn't go through the whole thread, but he was a Trumper in 2016 and was a huge Vivek and Haley guy. He was definitely one of your fellow bible thumping elderly men.

I know, anytime someone on your side does something wrong your pea-sized brain just can't comprehend it so you cling to conspiracy theories and cope in unhealthy ways. You need to just accept it.

Yeah the guy who donates to act blue is totally a republican guys. just like last time it happened.

 

[SpergioLeonne]

I didn't go through the whole thread, but he was a Trumper in 2016 and was a huge Vivek and Haley guy. He was definitely one of your fellow bible thumping elderly men.

Show me where I thumped a Bible, ever. I think I may have said that Christians aren’t as bad as the left makes them out to be, sure.

I know, anytime someone on your side does something wrong your pea-sized brain just can't comprehend it so you cling to conspiracy theories and cope in unhealthy ways. You need to just accept it.

It’s a neurotic trait, the way you load your sentences.

“Any time someone on my side does something wrong, (…)”

Your argument is just “yeah huh he’s a Republican” and you hand waived away the part where I mentioned he exclusively donated to democrats

 

[Sabersaurus53]

The funniest thing that could happen is if Trump took a gun off his secret service and shot a would-be assassin to death on camera.