Just hours after suspected second assassination attempt on former U.S.
President Donald Trump, law enforcement officials arrested a suspect.
U.S.
media report that Ryan Ruth was captured after Secret Service
agents opened fire on a gunman carrying an AK47 style
rifle near the boundary of Trump's Florida golf course.
Police have been searching the properties of Ruth, a former
resident of North Carolina who has been living as a
self-employed affordable housing builder in Hawaii since 2018.
A staunch political activist, Ruth has voiced opinions of, both
supportive of and critical of Trump 1 cause.
Dear to his heart, however, has been the war in
Ukraine as he recently spent months in the country supporting
the resistance against the Russian invasion.
Here he is talking about Russian President Vladimir Putin in
2022.
Putin is a terrorist and he needs to be ended.
So we need everybody from around the globe to stop
what they're doing and come here now and support the
Ukrainians to to end this war.
Ruth is suspected of being the person who hid in
shrubbery with a rifle scope and camera near the area
where Trump was golfing.
Secret Service agents were clearing holes ahead of Trump when
they spotted a rifle barrel.
The agents opened fire, but the person fled in a
black car before being apprehended on the highway.
The FBI has said the incident appears to be an
assassination attempt.
Nonetheless, Trump posted statements in seemingly good spirits that evening,
praising law enforcement for their work and saying he would
never surrender to people trying to stop him and his
supporters.