Fox News: Secret Service Agents Fired at Would-Be Gunman Before He Could Take Aim at Trump

Fox News reported Sunday afternoon that a man who reportedly had opened fire on former President Donald Trump while he was golfing in West Palm Beach, Florida, never fired a shot as his Secret Service detail was aware of his presence and fired on him first.

The man, whose identity has not been released and who is reportedly in custody, was said to have showed up at Trump International Golf Club with an AK-47 rifle. While initial reports claimed the man fired upon the former president from a tree line , Fox News confirmed the suspect never got a shot off.

Network correspondent Lucas Tomlinson reported:

Fox News can now report that it was the Secret Service that fired the gunshots at the suspected gunman outside former President Trump’s golf club, Trump International in West Palm Beach, Florida. The Secret Service saw a man carrying an AK-47. The man with the AK-47 did not open fire. It was the Secret Service that opened fire. The man dropped the rifle, took off running, we now understand, based on local reports, that suspect is now in custody. We are awaiting a press conference from the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office as well as the Secret Service.

They will both be at that press conference, but Fox News can confirm it was the Secret Service that fired those shots and what they saw was a threat to the president who was playing golf as we just heard from Sean Hannity, former President Trump was on the front nine at Trump International when these shots rang out. The Secret Service saw what they thought was a threat. A man, a lone gunman carrying an AK-47. That man did not fire the shots, it was the Secret Service. That suspect went running and we’re now told he’s in custody.

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