Trump gives first-hand account of assassination attempts and suggests God wants him ‘to save this country’: Live

Donald Trump blasted the Biden-Harris administration for their “Communist left rhetoric,” after he was the subject of a second apparent assassination attempt at one of his golf courses in Florida on Sunday.

The former president was unharmed during the incident and the FBI says it is investigating the latest security episode involving the Republican presidential nominee, just nine weeks after he survived a previous attempt on his life when he was shot in the ear by a sniper at a rally in Pennsylvania.

A man, named by authorities as Ryan Routh, was spotted aiming an AK-47-type rifle at Trump’s West Palm Beach golf resort while concealed in shrubbery about 400 to 500 yards away from the politician when he was spotted by Secret Service agents who opened fire as he fled the scene.

Routh, 58, appeared in court in West Palm Beach on Monday and was charged with two gun offences.

Trump later gave a first-hand account of the incident during an address on X Spaces on Monday evening, as he launched his new cryptocurrency platform World Liberty Financial from Mar-a-Lago.

During the rambling accounts he suggested, once again, that he had survived the two attempts on his life because God wants him to “save the country.”