Donald Trump says he's safe and well after reports of gunshots described to have been fired in his vicinity local officials in Palm Beach in Florida say it happened in the grounds of his golf course while he was playing an AK-47 assault rifle has apparently been recovered and a man is in custody while Tom baitman is live in Washington with the very latest for us now Tom what more have you got well what is clear so far Clive is that this happened 3 hours ago as Donald Trump was playing golf he was said to be between
holes at his private course on West Palm Beach in Florida now law enforcement officials say that multiple gunshots were heard at that moment and the Secret Service detail that was protecting him at the time returned fire there was a suspect that was seen and then seemed to seen to flee to run away from the scene now law enforcement officials say they have recovered a weapon and a scope from the scene there and they are at the moment around a wooded area on the edge of that golf course now separately the local sheriff in West Palm
county says that they closed the interstate highway after this uh trying to find what they described as a suspect they have stopped a car and detained a person that they say is of interest that person now in the custody of the FBI and the car itself is being searched now what had been unclear until a few moments ago is whether whether or not Donald Trump was the intended target of this apparent shooting uh some Us Media were reporting uh unnamed law enforcement officials saying that he was the intended target but that matter seems to have
been cleared up in the last few minutes as the FBI have put out a very short statement saying that they are investigating this as an attempted assassination of Donald Trump what that means is we have now witnessed what is potentially the second attempt on the former president's life during this election campaign remember it was uh just over two months ago that a 20-year-old man tried to kill him at a rally in Butler pen Pennsylvania that led to the resignation of the director of The Secret Services over failures in that now Donald Trump himself is motocade
has been seen leaving the resort there and heading to maral Lago which is just a a few miles away his Resort in um Florida and Donald Trump himself has given a short statement in a campaign fundraising email he has said there were gunshots in my vicinity but before the rumors spiral out of control I wanted you to hear this I am safe and well nothing will slow me down he says I Will Never Surrender
