The Daily Fuckup — September 15, 2024

Edition · September 15, 2024

The Daily Fuckup — September 15, 2024

1 verified report published on September 15, 2024.

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Closing take

This was not a normal campaign-news day. A second apparent assassination attempt in two months is a national security failure first and a political story second, but for Trump it also underlined the chaos surrounding his run and the limits of the martyrdom branding. Meanwhile, the debate hangover kept doing him no favors, because every fresh crisis made it harder for his team to reset the conversation on the terrain he wanted. If the goal was to project control, discipline, and inevitability, September 15 was the opposite: danger, confusion, and another reminder that Trump’s operation lives one bad hour away from a full-blown disaster.

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Trump golf course incident triggers scrutiny of Secret Service response

security breakdown Confidence 5/5

★★★★★Fuckup rating 5/5 Five-alarm fuckup

On Sept. 15, 2024, the Secret Service said an agent saw the barrel of a rifle aimed toward the former president during a security sweep at Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach and fired at the suspect. Authorities later identified Ryan Wesley Routh and, in a Sept. 24 indictment, charged him with attempting to assassinate Donald Trump. The incident came about two months after the July 13 Butler, Pennsylvania, rally shooting that wounded Trump and killed a spectator.

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