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)