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‘I Met Trump’s Would-Be Assassin.’
“He was just a harmless loon, who didn’t do anything too crazy,” Free Presser Tanya Lukyanova said. (Ryan Routh via X)
Free Presser Tanya Lukyanova interviewed Ryan Routh last year. ‘He was this zealous guy, an American who really wanted to volunteer to help Ukraine.’
By Oliver Wiseman
09.16.24 — U.S. Politics
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Barely two months after a bullet came millimeters from taking Donald Trump’s life at a rally in Pennsylvania, the Secret Service spotted a gunman hiding in the bushes at his golf club in West Palm Beach and opened fire. The man fled and was later detained. Trump was unharmed. “Nothing will slow me down,” he said in an email to supporters. 

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Oliver Wiseman
Oliver Wiseman is the deputy editor of The Free Press. Previously, he was the executive editor of The Spectator World and a regular contributor to UnHerd, City Journal, the Evening Standard, and a range of other publications.
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