Although the U.S. Secret Service thwarted a gun-toting man’s apparent plan to shoot former President Donald Trump as he golfed on Sept. 15, the incident adds to prior security-lapse concerns, police officers with decades of experience have told The Epoch Times.
Highly publicized security weaknesses, which surfaced after the first assassination attempt against the 45th president on July 13, could embolden “copycats”—especially amid the heated 2024 presidential campaign, Billy Ray Hunter, a former SWAT officer in Alachua County, Florida, said.
