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CNN has also named the suspect, again using unnamed sources, as Ryan Wesley Routh.
Three law enforcement officials told The Associated Press the same name, and Fox news is also reporting the name, citing unnamed law enforcement sources.
Authorities have not publicly identified the suspect. The Guardian has not confirmed this independently.
Here is what that page now looks like:
Trump’s fundraising page has been changed to read in part, “I am Donald J. Trump. FEAR NOT! I am safe and well, and no one was hurt. Thank God! But, there are people in this world who will do whatever it takes to stop us”.
Authorities said that the person alleged to have pointed the rifle at Trump while he was playing golf on Sunday was between 300 and 500 yards from the former president.
To give some idea of the distance: Thomas Matthew Crooks, who was named as person involved in the Trump assassination attempt on 13 July at Butler Park Showgrounds in Pennsylvania, was on a roof 164 yards (150 metres) away from where Trump was speaking.
Suspect named in US media reports
The man who authorities say is alleged to have pointed rifle with a scope into former President Donald Trump’s golf club and was arrested is named Ryan Wesley Routh, three law enforcement officials told The Associated Press.
Fox news is also reporting the name, citing unnamed law enforcement sources.
Authorities have not publicly identified the suspect. The Guardian has not confirmed this independently.
Here are photographs showing an AK-47 rifle, a backpack and a Go-Pro camera on a fence outside Trump International Golf Club, taken after what the FBI said appeared to be an assassination attempt of Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump:
Four US presidents have been wounded but survived assassination attempts, while in office or afterwards, including Donald Trump, who survived an assassination attempt on 13 July. A bullet grazed Trump’s ear.
Ronald Reagan was shot in 1981 outside the Hilton Hotel in Washington. Reagan was wounded when one of the bullets ricocheted off a limousine and struck him under the left armpit.
President Gerald Ford survived two attempts on his life in less than three weeks in 1975 without being hurt.
Theodore Roosevelt was shot in the chest in 1912 while campaigning for election in Milwaukee, but insisted on delivering his speech to supporters before being taken to a hospital.
Four US presidents were assassinated while in office: Abraham Lincoln, James Garfield, William McKinley and John F. Kennedy.
Robert F. Kennedy, a US presidential candidate was assassinated in 1968 by a gunman in the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles.
Alabama Governor George C. Wallace, a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, was shot in 1972 and became paralysed from the waist down.
Here is video footage of the briefing from Martin county sheriff William Snyder:
CNN reports that the suspect was first spotted by the FBI at 1.30pm. It is now just after six PM in West Palm Beach, where the incident occurred.
Former US president Barack Obama has not issued a statement on the incident, but has just reposted Kamala Harris’s response – here that is again:
I have been briefed on reports of gunshots fired near former President Trump and his property in Florida, and I am glad he is safe. Violence has no place in America.
— Vice President Kamala Harris (@VP) September 15, 2024