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Acting Secret Service Director Ronald Rowe will remain in Florida “indefinitely” pending the outcome of an investigation into the possible assassination attempt on the former president and Republican presidential nominee yesterday. Donald Trump (2017-2021), playing golf.

In an interview with cnnSecret Service spokesman Anthony Guglielmi detailed Monday that Rowe plans to meet with Trump today, as well as local police officers who were involved in a sting operation Sunday to arrest a man armed with an AK-47 rifle equipped with a scope near a field where the presidential candidate was playing.

Rowe will also visit the Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Florida, where the events took place.

In a message posted this morning via Truth Social, Trump thanked citizens for their concern and well-wishes, as well as the U.S. Secret Service, Sheriff Rick Bradshaw and his office in Palm Beach, Florida.

“And to all law enforcement agencies for the incredible job you did today at Trump International to ensure my safety as the 45th President of the United States and the Republican nominee for President in the upcoming election. “The job you did was absolutely exceptional,” Trump said.

In an interview with Fox NewsSheriff Bradshaw said the man arrested in connection with an attempted murder investigation “did not fire a single shot” because “the Secret Service agent acted very quickly.”

“The system worked,” “it’s not like what happened in Butler,” Bradshaw said, referring to the assassination attempt on the former president that took place in July at a rally in Pennsylvania, in which he was shot in the ear.

Speaking to the media before boarding the presidential helicopter, the American president: Joe Biden has asked Congress to do whatever is necessary to increase funding for the Secret Service.

“I want to make one thing clear: The Secret Service needs more help, and Congress needs to respond to that need,” he said. “Thank God the president is OK,” he added.

On Monday, a photo was released of the moment Ryan Root, a 58-year-old man who once supported Trump but eventually called him an “idiot” and a “clown,” was arrested. He was obsessed with Ukraine, Taiwan, North Korea and what he called “the end of humanity,” he says. cnn.

He came to Kyiv after the Russian invasion to take part in the protests and expressed his ideas in a self-published book.

Authorities suspect Routh, who owns a small construction company in Hawaii, planned to attack the former president while he was playing golf. The attack on Trump took place around 1:30 p.m. local time (17:30 GMT) on Sunday.

At a press conference on Sunday, Bradshaw provided the first official details, revealing that Secret Service agents were the ones who saw a man with a rifle near the fence of a golf course owned by Trump where he was playing, about 300,000 feet away.

The Secret Service shot him, and he ran out of the bushes where he had been hiding to the getaway vehicle, a black van whose license plate a witness had photographed.

Thanks to this, the man was detained a few minutes later on the road in his car. A pistol was found in the bushes, as well as two backpacks and a GoPro sports camera.

Law enforcement officials noted at a news conference that the golf course is surrounded by bushes and that when someone is hiding in them, they are essentially “out of sight.” Security, they said, is limited to what the Secret Service deems feasible, and the agency “did what it had to do.”

EFE