2024 election live updates: Secret Service launches investigation into Elon Musk’s response to Donald Trump assassination attempt

He was found to have been hiding in the bushes along the golf course for nearly 12 hours before he was spotted.

Routh had tweeted on X after the July 13 attempt on Trump’s life pressing President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris to visit the victims of the assassination attempt, saying: ‘Trump will never do anything for them.’

‘Show the world what compassion and humanity is all about,’ Routh posted on July 16, according to multiple reports.

Sunday’s incident, in which Secret Service fired shots at the suspect, who left his rifle behind, and later caught up to him on a highway, occurred two months after the July 13 assassination attempt that left Trump with a bloodied ear and supporter and former firefighter Corey Comperatore dead.

Routh, who wrote a book last year titled ‘Ukraine’s Unwinnable War,’ in which he referred to Trump as a ‘fool,’ ‘idiot’ and ‘buffoon,’ was also known to tag world leaders and celebrities like Elton John and Elon Musk in his posts, often providing his phone number and email.

The Secret Service has launched an investigation into Elon Musk’s tweet questioning why President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris weren’t also being targeted by assassination attempts.

Musk posted the comments on his X platform Sunday after former President Donald Trump was the target of a second assassination attempt as he golfed in West Palm Beach, Florida.

Responding to a post that asked: ‘Why they want to kill Donald Trump?, Musk – who is backing Trump – provocatively remarked: ‘And no one is even trying to assassinate Biden or Kamala.’

The Secret Service confirmed it is aware of the post, and that it investigates all threats related to protectees.

In a sit-down with Katie Couric at Washington, D.C.’s DAR Constitutional Hall, Clinton also hammered her ex-rival for blaming Democrats earlier Monday for the second attempt on his life.

‘If he were really a leader, he should be doing what he can to calm the waters,’ Clinton said. ‘Not try to just continue to throw red meat out there to get people riled up.’

The former Democratic nominee was reacting to the assassination attempt and then Trump’s subsequent tweet in which he claimed ‘Comrade Kamala Harris’ and the ‘ridiculous lawsuits’ on the ex-president were responsible.

Donald Trump hits the campaign trail again on Tuesday, traveling to Michigan two days after an apparent assassination attempt against him was foiled at his golf course in Florida.

His Democratic rival Kamala Harris will also campaign as she heads to the key battleground state of Pennsylvania for an interview with the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ).

That event and another interview with Hispanic media, recorded Monday and set to air Tuesday, will be the first time Harris will have an opportunity to react in person to the apparent bid on Trump’s life.

The Republican nominee and ex-president was whisked away by the Secret Service after a gunman was discovered on his golf course in Florida on Sunday, in the second such close call for Trump in as many months.

Russia is ‘fully ready’ to detonate a nuclear bomb in the Arctic at ‘any moment’, it was revealed today as Vladimir Putin presses on with drills unseen since the Cold War.

The director of an old Soviet test site first in the Novaya Zelmlya archipelago insisted that testing facilities are ready and can be used immediately ‘if the order is given’.

Rear Admiral Andrei Sinitsyn said: ‘The test site is ready to resume full-scale testing activities… The laboratory and testing facilities are ready. The personnel are ready.’

Sinitsyn claimed ‘foreign intelligence’ was monitoring the site, ‘likely sign of a concern over nuclear tests’, speaking to the state-owned Rossiyskaya Gazeta.

‘We are constantly ready to repel all types of threats, including the penetration of sabotage and reconnaissance groups onto the island,’ he said.

Laura Loomer has furiously denied having an affair with former President Donald Trump – and made a bombshell claim about Kamala Harris.

The 31-year-old conspiracy theorist used her podcast to slam rumors she’s in a romantic relationship with Trump, 78, as ‘malicious’ and ‘disrespectful to Donald Trump and Melania Trump’.

She then framed the rumors as a media conspiracy, saying on Saturday: ‘They’ve taken it so far, and you know if I was a leftist journalist, if I was a Democrat, oh my God, the media would be up in arms if the Republican media was doing this to a left-wing journalist.’

‘Oh my God, they’re misogynist, they’re bullying a woman, they’re trying to Monica Lewinsky her, they’re trying to discredit the fact that she’s a working woman,’ Loomer claimed the media would say.

Vice President Kamala Harris has taken the lead over Donald Trump in our DailyMail.com/J.L. Partners poll for the first time following her strong debate performance last week.

But there is still everything to play for with just 49 days until the election.

Harris now holds a one-point lead over the former president in our poll of 1,000 likely voters conducted in the week after the candidates went head to head on the debate stage in Pennsylvania.

Harris is the choice of 43 percent of voters (up two points since our last poll on August 13) while Trump is favored by 42 percent (down two points).

The shift appears to be driven by huge changes among Hispanic voters.