‘Dangerous Job’: Trump Describes Moment He Escaped Second Assassination Attempt

Republican nominee Donald Trump described the moment Wednesday the Secret Service saved him from a second assassination attempt on his life.

The Secret Service arrested 58-year-old Ryan Wesley Routh after they witnessed the barrel of his AK-47-style weapon aimed at the former president in West Palm Beach, Florida. Trump said on Fox News’ “Gutfeld” that a female agent snapped photos of Routh’s license plate before he escaped the golf course, allowing agents to later arrest him in a high speed chase down the highway.

“It was really great work again by Secret Service,” Trump said. “And a woman who saw somebody running and running for the car because he was caught and the Secret Service agents started shooting at him, didn’t do any talking, said just that’s a barrel of a gun, and started shooting. So this man is running to the car, and a woman … she sees somebody running and she didn’t like the way she looked, he looked very suspicious and took the car and parked right behind his and started taking pictures of the license plate. Who would do that? And then sent the pictures to the Sheriff of Palm Beach County and sent the pictures to the sheriffs office — they got him in a high speed chase down the highway.”

“But who would do that? I mean, they said out of a thousand incidents would that ever happen, and they said very rarely a thing like that. So she’s very much of a heroine,” he continued.

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The former president said the presidency is “the most dangerous profession” in existence, adding that it is always a “consequential president” who gets shot at.

“Being president is a very dangerous job. Because with a race car driver, that’s a dangerous job. It’s like, one tenth of one percent die. With a bull rider, I think bull riding looks a little scary, a bit more than that die. With a president, what is it, 6% or 7%? It’s the most dangerous profession there is,” Trump said.