Category:Personal Security

Assassination Attempts

• June, 2016: A British immigrant on an expired visa attempted to assassinate Donald Trump at one of his campaign rallies by stealing a police officer's firearm. “The No. 1 trending question related to Donald Trump on Google right now is ‘Who tried to shoot Trump?’ Which means a lot of people don't know the answer. Which is probably because the assassination attempt on the presumptive Republican presidential nominee hasn't been covered as a major news story. The answer, authorities say, is Michael Steven Sandford, a 20-year-old British citizen who was in the United States illegally after overstaying his visa. Sandford allegedly tried to pull a gun from the holster of a police officer at a Trump rally in Las Vegas on Saturday. He was arrested and later told the Secret Service that he had driven to the event from California and had been planning to kill the candidate for a year, according to a criminal complaint filed Monday in U.S. District Court in Nevada.” (Washington Post, June 21, 2016)
• Glenn Beck was suspended from his radio show after an invited guest mused that Trump would need to be stopped by "patriots" if Congress didn't prevent him from serving as President. “Glenn Beck, a prominent conservative commentator who opposes Trump, was recently suspended for a week by SiriusXM after Brad Thor, who writes political thrillers, made comments on Beck's radio program that some listeners interpreted as a call for Trump to be assassinated. ‘If Congress won't remove him from office, what patriot will step up and do that - if, if, he oversteps his mandate as president?’ Thor said. Thor and Beck both said later that the remark was not about assassinating Trump.” (Washington Post, June 21, 2016)