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Assassination Attempt on Trump Foiled by Police

<p>Las Vegas authorities are reporting a 19 year old man at a Las Vegas rally for Donald Trump claimed to be trying to kill Mr&period; Trump&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Michael Sandford&comma; who carries a British drivers license was arrested last Saturday night after attempting to grab the service revolver from a police officer&period; Police said Sanford was chatting with the officer under the pretense of wanting an autograph from Mr&period; Trump&period; When Sanford made the grab&comma; multiple officers assigned to the event descended on Sandford and detained him&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Sandford told police he drove to Las Vegas especially to perform this act&comma; after having heard the event was scheduled&period; He claimed had practiced with a gun for the first time only a few days ago&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He was not remorseful&period; He told police if he were on the street again he would make another attempt&period; He further said&nbsp&semi;he had been&nbsp&semi;&&num;8220&semi;planning to kill Trump for about a year but decided to act on this occasion because he finally felt confident about trying it&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He also had tickets to a later Trump rally in Phoenix&comma; just in case he was not to make the attempt in Las Vegas&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The Secret Service has charge him with two violations including assault&comma; and he could face a decade in prison&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>Editor&&num;8217&semi;s Note&colon;<&sol;strong>&nbsp&semi;I am actually very confused at the lack of press coverage of this development&period; Even if the potential killer was incompetent&comma; this was an attempt on potentially the President of the United States&period; If this had happened to Hillary it would have been major news&comma; with an outpouring of tears from all quarters&period; &nbsp&semi;Are we so used to having Bernie protestors attacking people at Trump rallies that we are immune&quest;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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