Who is Trump’s suspected would-be assassin and how was a second attempt on his life foiled? [Video]

US MEDIA OUTLETS and law enforcement officials have named Ryan Wesley Routh as the suspected would-be assassin of Donald Trump after he was arrested in Florida last night. 

This is the second attempt on Trump’s life during his campaign for the White House, after he was shot in the ear during an outdoor campaign rally last July. 

US media said it was Routh, 58, who was arrested after US Secret Service agents “opened fire on a gunman” carrying an AK-47 style rifle near the boundary of Trump’s Florida course where the former president was golfing.

The suspect had bolted out of the shrubbery where he had been hiding and escaped in a black car before he was tracked down by authorities. The FBI has said the incident appears to be “an attempted assassination of former President Trump”

CNN and CBS reported Routh was a self-employed affordable housing builder in Hawaii who had an arrest record spanning decades and regularly posted on politics and …