Trump’s protective detail has been higher than some of his peers because of his high visibility and his campaign to seek the White House again. His security was bolstered days before the July assassination attempt in Pennsylvania because of a threat on Trump’s life from Iran, U.S. officials said.

Social media users are variously claiming the man accused of planning to assassinate Donald Trump in Florida is registered as a Republican or a Democratic voter, but public records indicate he is currently neither.

Authorities arrested a man identified by ABC News sources as Ryan Wesley Routh, 58, relating to the "attempted assassination" of former President Donald Trump.

The gunman acused of trying to assassinate Donald Trump was hiding near the former president’s Florida golf course for roughly 12 hours before a Secret Service agent spotted him and opened fire, prosecutors say.

Watch a view of a courthouse where Ryan Routh, the reported suspect in an assassination attempt on Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, is expected to appear. The former president was declared safe on Sunday 15 September after the Secret Service foiled what the FBI called an assassination attempt while he was golfing on his course in West Palm Beach,