(Townhall) There have been two attempted assassinations of former President Donald Trump, and both times, the suspects have known information only insiders would know about security. How could that be?
Since Sunday’s attempted assassination of Trump, making it the second one in two months, several questions have still gone unanswered, such as how the latest suspect knew the former president would be playing golf— which was decided at the last minute.
According to Secret Service (USSS) director Ronald Rowe Jr., Trump’s golf day at his West Palm Beach, Florida, golf course was OTR, which stands for an off-the-record movement, or one that is not on the official schedule. This means that very few people have access to such information.
Another question that is still unanswered, is how the gunman, Ryan Wesley Routh, went undetected for 12 hours.
Routh was “lying in wait” for Trump to reach the golf course’s fifth hole when a Secret Service agent saw a rifle barrel poking through a fence further along the course’s boundary.
So, again, after the first assassination attempt on Trump, how did a second one occur just months apart? Despite the 45th president’s Secret Service detail organizing a new security plan for such cases, how did something like this even come to fruition?
Well, two people close to Trump are speculating a reason.
Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) suggested there might be a “mole” within the Secret Service, noting that he and his Republican colleagues are suspicious there is something deeper going on within the agency and someone providing information about points of vulnerability.
