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Another Trump security scare shows how brittle the whole operation has become
The attempted killing of Donald Trump at his Florida golf course kept reverberating on September 14, with the campaign still living inside a security failure that had already blown past the category of “isolated incident.” The emerging picture was not just of one armed suspect, but of a second near-miss in two months, after the July rally shooting in Pennsylvania had already exposed major Secret Service gaps. For Trump, the immediate political problem was obvious: the candidate who likes to posture as tough and unstoppable looked surrounded by a protection apparatus that repeatedly failed basic tests.