Mark Morgan to Newsmax: Luck, Not Secret Service Success, Saved Trump

Luck, not success from the Secret Service, has kept former President Donald Trump alive after two assassination attempts this summer, Mark Morgan, a former FBI assistant director, said Tuesday on Newsmax.

“I think the reason why President Trump is alive is because we’ve had two shooters that were amateurs,” Morgan, who also served as the acting commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection under Trump, said on “Wake Up America.” “You change their degree of skill, and I think we’re talking about a dead President Trump.”

A Secret Service agent on Sunday spotted the muzzle of an AK-47-style gun sticking out of shrubbery near where Trump was golfing in West Palm Beach, Florida. The agent opened fire and the suspect, Ryan Wesley Routh, fled without firing any shots at the former president.

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