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‘How did he know?’: Questions after second Trump assassination attempt
Donald Trump has escaped a second attempted assassination in two months, with one glaring question now being asked.
Secret Service shot at a man armed with a scoped AK-47-style rifle on Sunday afternoon after he was spotted pointing the barrel through the chain-link fence at the Trump International Golf Course in Florida, close to Mr Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home.
Mr Trump was 300 to 500 yards (275 to 460 metres) away on the fifth hole when shots rang out at about 1.30pm (3.30am AEST), according to police.
Routh, a former construction worker from Greensboro, North Carolina, who now lives in Hawaii, was previously convicted in 2002 of possessing a weapon of mass destruction, a reference to a fully automatic machine gun, after a three-hour standoff with police in Greensboro.
He often criticised Mr Trump on his social media accounts and was a staunch supporter of Ukraine, having travelled there in 2022 claiming to want to “fight and die”.
Routh’s son, Oran Routh, told The Daily Mail on Sunday his father hates Mr Trump “like every reasonable person does” but said he was “not a violent person”.
Earlier this year, Routh wrote on X that “DEMOCRACY is on the ballot and we cannot lose” — invoking the campaign claim made by President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris.
https://www.news.com.au/world/north-america/us-politics/how-did-he-know-question... Another deranged democrat who knows nothing about guns. The AK47 (7.62x39) is not a suitable choice for precise shots at 300-500 yards.
If you zero scope at 200 yards it has bullet drop of 14.7 inches at 300, 44.7 inch drop at 400 yards and 95.6 inch drop at 500 yards with a 24 inch barrel which is much longer than AK47 so actual drop figures will be greater.
A .243 Winchester which is minimum for hunting pigs in Australia will have 5 inch drop at 300, 14.7 drop at 400 with 30.5 inch drop at 500 yards.
Just about every gun nut would have a .243 low recoil so women like it.
Both of these deranged democrats donated to Act Blue which is democrat.
The idiots with TDS in this forum are beyond help they would be outraged if anyone shot at Kamala yet are ok with people shooting at Trump.