More Secret Service Scrutiny After Another Assassination Attempt on Donald Trump
WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch
The Wall Street Journal
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🗓️ 16 September 2024
⏱️ 25 minutes
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| 0:15.0 | From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch. |
| 0:24.2 | An apparent assassination attempt against Donald Trump |
| 0:27.4 | fails for the second time in two months. |
| 0:30.4 | What does it mean for the secret service as well as for the election campaign? |
| 0:35.2 | Plus leaks from inside the Supreme Court taking aim at Chief Justice John Roberts portraying |
| 0:40.8 | him as out to help Donald Trump. Is that accurate and what's going on at the high court? |
| 0:47.6 | Welcome to Potomac Watch. I'm Paul Geego, editor of the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, and I'm here with my colleagues, Kim Strassal, and Colin Levy. |
| 0:57.0 | Welcome to you both. |
| 0:59.0 | Well, let's start with what the FBI says they are investigating as an assassination attempt against Donald Trump at his |
| 1:06.7 | West Palm Beach golf course in Florida. Ryan Wesley Ruff was arrested on Sunday and on Monday was charged with possession of a firearm as a felon, former convicted felon and a possession of a firearm for shaving off the serial numbers on that weapon. |
| 1:25.2 | These looked to be merely the beginning of potential charges against Ruth. |
| 1:30.4 | He was arrested after fleeing the scene, |
| 1:32.8 | after being confronted on the golf course, |
| 1:35.2 | a few hundred yards from where Trump was golfing |
| 1:38.8 | and headed toward Ruff, confronted by a secret service agent. He fled leaving behind an AK-style rifle, a |
| 1:46.9 | GoPro for filming and perhaps streaming whatever he had in mind in body armor. |
| 1:53.0 | Rough seems like an odd and troubled person arrested multiple times for various offenses. |
| 1:58.0 | Trump's response was to thank the Secret Service and Palm Beach County Sheriff Rick Bradshaw. |
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