"A Little Louder For The People In The Back"

At news conference just now:

US Secret Service Acting Director -- in an emphatic voice -- specifies that the person arrested in Florida near Trump's golf course DID NOT fire any shots

— Scott MacFarlane (@MacFarlaneNews) September 16, 2024

And as I said earlier:

The only shots fired were by the Secret Service agent. Routh never even had line of sight on Trump. Sounds like USSS took care of business. https://t.co/Y3DMIFglFP

— Fred Wellman (@FPWellman) September 16, 2024

So...there was no "shooter."  Barely even an assassination attempt.  More like a concept of an attempt, you might say. There was a guy; with a gun; within 600 yards of Trump. "Florida," in other words. I expect this guy has talked freely to the FBI, giving them enough information to hange an "attempted" charge on. But the emphasis is still on "attempt."

BTW:

EXCLUSIVE ---@SecretService showed a new president Donald Trump how photographers could shoot long-range pictures of him while he golfed at his Va. club -- and warned an assassin could kill him the same way. But Trump has insisted that his clubs were safe and kept playing. How…

— Carol Leonnig (@CarolLeonnig) September 16, 2024

Trump was told years ago his courses were not safe.

He didn’t care. pic.twitter.com/v3UQCaDAgU

— Bradley P. Moss (@BradMossEsq) September 16, 2024

At the time, the Secret Service recommended Trump not play at his golf club in Jupiter, Florida, sources told us. Trump Jupiter is a residential course surrounded by houses on most of the holes, so it's much harder to manage from a security perspective, the sources said. https://t.co/wx4mbjObyF

— Katherine Faulders (@KFaulders) September 16, 2024

We need to completely rethink America's golf courses. Steel doors surrounding the greens. Armored golf carts. And, above all, trained and armed caddies.

No soft targets.

— David Simon (@AoDespair) September 16, 2024

Speaking of soft targets:

The mayor of Springfield, Ohio and two county commissioners — all Republicans upset by the smears on their community — won't commit to voting Trump.

"Any political leader that takes the national stage and has the national spotlight needs to understand the gravity of the words…

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) September 16, 2024

Gee, I wonder why? Maybe because:

Over the weekend, vice presidential candidate and sitting Ohio senator JD Vance admitted that he lied to incite violence against Haitian immigrants, including his own constituents. There are no words.https://t.co/YokSIzAXl8 pic.twitter.com/wn9DVbCFPR

— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) September 16, 2024

Or could it be:

33 bomb threats made against Springfield schools — some from one particular country: Govhttps://t.co/5TiLUGeIin

— Raw Story (@RawStory) September 16, 2024

"At least 33 separate bomb threats," said DeWine at a news conference. "Each one of which has been responded to and each one of whom has been found as a hoax. So 33 threats, 33 hoaxes, I will make that very, very clear. None of these had any validity at all."

"I want to say to the parents in Springfield, these hoaxes of these, these threats have all been hoaxes, none of them have panned out," DeWine continued. "We have people unfortunately overseas who are taking these actions. Some of them are coming from one particular country. We think that this is you know, one more opportunity to mess with the United States and they're, they're continuing to do that."

I'm glad they were invalid threats. That doesn't excuse the reason the threats began in the first place. Inchoate terrorism is still terrorism.