NBC News reported Friday that Biden administration officials from the intelligence agencies and the Secret Service have told President Trump the Secret Service cannot protect him from potential assassins when he is golfing, basically forcing Trump to suspend playing golf until after the election.
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Trump has been the target of two assassination attempts and is also being targeted for death by Iran. A gunman wounded Trump on stage at an outdoor rally in Butler, Pennsylvania on July 13. One supporter was killed and two wounded who were seated in the bleachers behind Trump. The Butler attempt exposed scandalous security lapses by the Secret Service.
The second assassination attempt on Trump took place at his golf course in West Palm Beach, Florida on September 15 when a man armed with a semi-automatic rifle was laying in wait for Trump just outside the fence line along the sixth hole. An alert Secret Service agent doing an advance security sweep a few holes ahead of Trump saw the accused gunman, Ryan Routh, and opened fire, forcing Routh to flee before he could take any shots at Trump.
The Secret Service was not using drones nor performing perimeter checks outside the