Article By Jason Cohen
President Donald Trump’s daughter-in-law, Lara Trump, expressed concern about the president’s chances of surviving assassination attempts on Monday after U.S. Secret Service agents shot and killed a man attempting to force his way into his Mar-a-Lago residence.
Two agents and a deputy from the Palm Beach Sheriff’s Office on Sunday “confronted” the individual, who was armed with a shotgun and possessed a gas can, according to a press conference held by federal and local law enforcement officials following a statement from the U.S. Secret Service. The president’s daughter-in-law argued on “Fox & Friends” that incendiary rhetoric about the president led to the incident, which followed two assassination attempts on him during the 2024 presidential campaign.
“[W]henever you just casually throw around terms like Nazi, like fascist, like Hitler and racist, what do you think the consequences of that ultimately will be?” she said. “We are better than this as a country.”
“And I’ll tell you as a family member, I keep wondering how many chances does one man get? He’s not gonna be lucky enough at some point,” she continued. “Thank God he wasn’t at Mar-a-Lago and the First Lady wasn’t there this weekend. But you don’t get lucky every single time, guys.”
Palm Beach County Sheriff Ric Bradshaw told reporters how the shooting happened at the Sunday press conference.
“At 1:30 this morning the security detail detected an individual had made his way into the inner perimeter of Mar-a-Lago. A deputy and two Secret Service agents on the detail went to that area to investigate,” Bradshaw said. “They confronted a white male that was carrying a gas can and a shotgun.”
“He was ordered to drop those two pieces of equipment that he had with him and, at which time he put down the gas can, raised the shotgun to a shooting position, and at that point in time the deputy and the two Secret Service agents fired their weapons and neutralized the threat,” he added. “He is deceased at the scene.”
The suspect was subsequently identified as Austin Tucker Martin, Fox Business host Maria Bartiromo reported on “Sunday Morning Futures.”
Trump was shot in his right ear just six minutes into his campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, on July 13, 2024. The president’s former physician and Republican Texas Rep. Ronny Jackson published a medical update one week after the near-assassination, writing that the bullet came “less than a quarter of an inch from entering his head.”
A second assassination attempt was also thwarted after a Secret Service agent discovered Ryan Wesley Routh hiding in the bushes with a rifle at the Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach on Sept. 15, 2024.
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