Concerns about security measures for Donald Trump
Newshour
BBC
4.2 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 16 September 2024
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
New concerns have been raised in the United States about the safety of presidential candidates after an apparent second attempt in two months on the life of Donald Trump. Mr Trump was unharmed when shots were fired at a Florida golf course where he was playing. A man was later arrested.
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(Photo: Ryan Wesley Routh, the man named as the suspect in the apparent assassination attempt. Credit: Reuters)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to News Hour live from the BBC World Service in London. |
| 0:07.8 | I'm Rebecca Kersby. |
| 0:09.8 | It was the barrel of a rifle protruding from the bushes close to where Donald Trump was playing |
| 0:15.5 | golf that alerted secret service agents to another potential assassination attempt on the former |
| 0:21.6 | president. An officer opened fire. The suspect |
| 0:24.9 | fled and was later captured, but the fact a man carrying an assault rifle was able |
| 0:30.6 | to get within 500 meters of Mr Trump has caused some alarm. |
| 0:35.0 | It's just two months since Donald Trump was shot in the ear while giving an open-air speech in Pennsylvania. |
| 0:41.0 | A member of the public was also killed in that attack. |
| 0:44.7 | Earlier Sheriff Rick Bradshaw from West Palm Beach Police said that vegetation around the |
| 0:50.0 | golf course in Florida had made protecting the former president more difficult. |
| 0:54.3 | Well you got to understand the golf course is surrounded by shrubbery so when somebody |
| 0:58.6 | gets into the shrubbery they're pretty much out of sight. All right? |
| 1:03.0 | And at this level that he is at right now, he's not the city president. |
| 1:07.0 | If he was, we would have had this higher golf course around it. |
| 1:10.0 | But because he's not, security is limited to the areas that the Secret Service debs |
| 1:15.6 | possible. |
| 1:16.6 | Well, Raphael Barros from the Secret Services Miami Field Office said the investigations into the incident were ongoing. |
| 1:24.3 | Former President Donald Trump is safe and unharmed following a protective incident |
| 1:30.3 | shortly before 2 PM on Sunday at Trump International Golf Club at West Palm Beach. |
| 1:36.4 | The US Secret Service personnel opened fire on a gunman located near the property line, and |
| 1:42.3 | this matter is under investigation. |
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