The presidential candidate was not injured. Ryan Routh actively campaigned for Ukraine and the Democrats, even appearing in Azov's propaganda video. We have collected what we can know about the attacker so far.

According to Hungarian time, it became clear at dawn on Monday: another assassination attempt was made against Donald Trump, the Republican presidential candidate. The incident happened at Trump's Florida golf club in West Palm Beach, 15 minutes from the politician's local home, Mar-a-Lago.

According to a BBC summary, the gunman was spotted by Secret Service agents checking the golf course while Trump was playing golf.

According to sources, they are always one hole ahead of their protégé on the course. The agents noticed the barrel of the weapon protruding from the bushes on the side of the track, according to the first reports, it was an AK-47.

An agent immediately went into action, four or five magazines were fired in the firefight.

The suspect then dropped the gun and began to flee in a vehicle. He made it sixty-one kilometers from the golf course before police were able to catch him on I-95.

The suspect's name is Ryan Routh, information about him will be leaked to the public on Monday morning.

The suspect's son has already spoken to the media, calling his father a "loving and caring father" and also explained that he does not know what happened in Florida, but hopes that what happened was only exaggerated, because the man he knows "is not he does crazy things, he's not violent'.

The BBC has identified the suspect's online profiles. Routh once encouraged international fighters to join the war in Ukraine, to fight against the Russians.

He also had pro-Palestinian, pro-Taiwan and anti-China messages; he also wrote about Chinese "biological warfare" and called the Covid virus an "attack".

Ryan Routh has already made a statement to the media: he told the New York Times in 2023 that he traveled to Ukraine in 2022. He also talked about how he wanted to recruit Afghan soldiers who had escaped from the Taliban. According to his own posts, the man, who otherwise had no military experience, tried to recruit even this summer: he still wanted to recruit Afghan soldiers to help the Ukrainians, and he was waiting for the feedback from the Ukrainians in this regard.

Ryan Routh actively campaigned for Ukraine and the Democrats.

There was also footage of Routh protesting with the Azov squad in Kiev when the Ukrainians were fighting the Russians in Mariupol. The video was uploaded to the world wide web in May 2022.

The man also published a military document in Ukrainian on his Facebook page, which may indicate that he volunteered to fight in the Ukrainian army.

The New York Post reports that Routh has promoted the Democratic Party and their politicians on his own platforms on numerous occasions.

He once explained: "DEMOCRACY is on the ballot and we cannot lose." He advised Joe Biden to make his campaign theme "Keep America Democratic and Free." He also stated that he thinks Trump wants to "enslave the American people."

Routh shared the Democrats' slogans on several occasions, repeating them verbatim.

The suspect had several run-ins with the law in previous years; He was charged with resisting police arrest, driving with an invalid license, possession of stolen goods, and causing a hit-and-run accident with a motorcycle.

Returning to the assassination attempt: Donald Trump was not injured in the incident, the politician was immediately taken to a safe place in an armored car.

He also issued a statement: "There was a shooting near me, but before rumors start to fly out of control, I want you to know: I AM SAFE AND WELL."

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Cover image: Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump
Source: MTI/AP/Charlie Neibergall