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How many assassination attempts will it take for the Secret Service to provide adequate security for Donald Trump?
On Sunday, an agent happened to spot a rifle barrel sticking out a fence on the Trump International Golf Club course — and fired on the perp, scaring him off.
Yet the would-be shooter got as close as 300 yards — almost as near as the Pennsylvania assassin, who would have succeeded if Trump hadn’t happened to turn his head at just the right moment.
And that was after Trump’s security supposedly got upgraded in the wake of information that Iran is actively gunning for him.
Followed by increased-we’re-told precautions.
Yet this perp got caught because a civilian spotted the suspect fleeing the scene and got a photo of the vehicle, license plate included.
If President Biden were golfing, the whole course would’ve been “surrounded” with protection, Palm Beach County Sheriff Ric Bradshaw said.
Yet Trump’s “not the sitting president,” so “security is limited to the areas that the Secret Service deems possible.”
Huh?
Tehran’s death order follows the US takeout on his watch of Iranian terror master Qasem Soleimani; as prez, Trump also OK’d the operation that took down ISIS chief Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi.
Every terror outfit in the world would be happy to take Trump down.
And of course Democrats and much of the media have spent the last four (or eight!) years demonizing Trump as an existential threat to American democracy — rhetoric that could easily inspire a lunatic like the Bernie Sanders supporter who opened fire on House Republicans practicing for a softball game in 2017.
As it happens, the man ID’d in this attempt is one Ryan Routh, 58, who championed left-wing causes on social media.
The White House and Kamala Harris campaign were all violence has no place in our politics once again on Sunday, but it sure looks like they have yet to install Secret Service leadership that agrees.