Donald Trump is live on Elon Musk's app ... and he's praising the civilian who helped lead police straight to the man suspected of trying to shoot the former president.
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00:00Donald Trump is opening up for the first time about that assassination or apparent assassination attempt
00:06the of course the suspect who was arrested is not was not charged with assassination only because
00:12He didn't take enough overt steps at least as far as we know at this point
00:16He's only been charged right with weapons with weapons offenses
00:20But President Trump former President Trump spoke about the incident for the first time. He went back on
00:28His ex platform and they chatted about what went down that day and
00:33There's one particular citizen that that Donald Trump wants to thank for the suspect being apprehended
00:41amazingly a civilian in that area saw something and it looked very suspicious and
00:48In the car drove their car to the back of his
00:52truck of some kind
00:54Mm-hmm and took pictures of the license plate
00:57gave them
00:59To the sheriff's office and they ended up getting him. They got him the civilian did a phenomenal job a woman
01:05I mean who would think you could take a thousand times like that. How many people would have the
01:12brain power to
01:14Follow him and not make use of the back of his truck, you know
01:18It's interesting because on the one hand you think how on earth
01:22Could you know if she didn't see it he would have gotten away but when you really think about it
01:28He left the gun behind. He had two backpacks
01:30They would have found that they would have found it eventually
01:32But certainly this the civilians help helped them track him down immediately
01:38So this is this is really raised a huge issue about the Secret Service and what happened
01:45you know as far as sweeping that golf course before
01:49Before the former president got there and resources because they are now protecting 40 people and
01:57It's pretty much bipartisan now
01:59They're saying the Secret Service doesn't have the manpower to do everything. It's expected to do at this point
02:06so the issue now is
02:08funding them and
02:09Staffing them so that they can do an adequate job. They better do it quick
02:15I mean before somebody gets killed
02:16This is too too too many attempts and I think and I understand that
02:21He's not the current president right now
02:23and if he were there would be much more heightened security, but I I don't think you can just treat Donald Trump like he's just a
02:30Politician running for office or a past president
02:32He is he's probably the most polarizing person in the entire world
02:36And I think you've got to treat him as such so from now on when he golfs or does anything else
02:40They have got to increase security. I mean
02:43Two attempts is absolutely absurd within 70 days, although they did
02:48No, they oil the plot here for sure Harvey for absolutely and credit to them and look this could have been really bad
02:56I mean if that if he would have continued golfing this guy would have
03:00Most likely had a very close a makeable shot that could have killed Donald Trump. So absolutely incredible. They saved his life
03:07No, they did a
03:08Certainly they should be lauded for the job that was done that day
03:12I guess what the Secret Service is now having to answer for is what happened or didn't happen ahead of time
03:18They didn't sweep the golf course, right?
03:20And that because he was there for 12 hours because remember that was the issue in Pennsylvania about who was ahead of time
03:27Who was looking at certain areas who's in charge of this and that's what didn't happen in Pennsylvania
03:33And it seems like at least at this point seems like there were lapses in the preparation again
03:38And that's you know, really where the resources come in
03:41I guess it's easy enough to when the protectee is there you can say we had people who are around
03:47Him or her right? That's the easy part
03:50It's the more difficult sweeping part of it is getting prepared is the preparation before they get there
03:56My name is Mara from New York. First of all, I'm glad that they catch the guy
04:01The right person but it just sounds so crazy to me that he took a civilian to be able to find this guy
04:07And it was such a huge mister from like the Secret Service
04:10So this could have over prevented if they would have been more careful and the fact that it was a mister from the Secret Service
04:17It's just so crazy to me, but I'm going to catch a guy
04:20Yeah, I mean Secret Service has a lot of issues that they're dealing with ever since Pennsylvania. Absolutely