Mike Waltz raises questions about Secret Service’s ‘cookie-cutter’ protective approach in wake of latest Donald Trump threat

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'They need to change this.'

A Central Florida Congressman who is already on a committee investigating the first attempt on Donald Trump’s life has questions about the most recent close call.

Among them: why protection for the former President still isn’t where it should be.

U.S. Rep. Mike Waltz has questions about “how the Secret Service allocates its resources,” saying that what works for Jimmy Carter (who is in hospice) and George W. Bush “painting in his barn” doesn’t work for Trump, given “how active he is and how the threats are coming in both foreign and domestic.”

“They need to change this and make it threat based protective details rather than just this kind of cookie-cutter approach,” Waltz advised on Fox News’ “America Reports.”

The FBI called the actions of Ryan Routh an “attempted assassination” Sunday. Routh was ahead of the former President who was shooting a round at his golf course, and his stand was compromised by a Secret Service officer who saw the barrel of the semiautomatic weapon and fired. Eventually, Routh was apprehended in a different county.

Waltz also noted that Routh should have been on the radar of intelligence agencies, given his “anti-Israel rhetoric in terms of Oct. 7 and his online book … apologizing to Iran, calling for Iran to assassinate the president and saying he’d be certainly willing to help.”

Per The Associated Press, Routh declared Iran “free” to “assassinate” Trump in his manifesto called “Ukraine’s unwinnable war.”

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The Associated Press contributed to this report.

A.G. Gancarski

A.G. Gancarski has been the Northeast Florida correspondent for Florida Politics since 2014. His work also can be seen in the Washington Post, the New York Post, the Washington Times, and National Review, among other publications. He can be reached at [email protected] or on Twitter: @AGGancarski


4 comments

  • Kamala is Brat 🌴🥥🌴

    September 16, 2024 at 3:46 pm

    There are too many assault weapons in the hands of crazy people. Republicans are enablers of America’s ridiculous gun policies.

    • Frankie M.

      September 16, 2024 at 8:36 pm

      RDS needs to obilize the FL National Guard STAT. The illegals are coming after Trump after he disparaged their character several thousand times.

  • Victoria Olson

    September 16, 2024 at 6:56 pm

    I hope this would be an awaking for trump, his lunatic followers have come after Pelosi’s husband, election workers, the Gov. of Michigan & the Capitol with violence. Now he gets a taste of the reverse, but he’s such an evil revengeful person, I’m sure he won’t put together his call for violence now turns on him.

  • MH/Duuuval

    September 16, 2024 at 9:50 pm

    MAGAs and the remainder of the GOP have tried to rein in spending for law enforcement since Obama was President, including Secret Service.

    Waltz is in the House majority: Pony up the dough! Otherwise, Waltz is fronting.

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