Attorney General Merrick Garland said Tuesday that the Department of Justice will "spare no resource" in its investigation into the second assassination attempt on Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump.
Garland made the comments at the outset of a Justice Department event commemorating the 30th anniversary of the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS Office).
"The FBI is continuing to investigate the attempted assassination of the former president that occurred on Sunday in Florida. We are grateful he is safe," Garland said. "The entire Justice Department, including in particular the FBI, the U.S. attorney's office for the southern district of Florida, the national security division, are all coordinating closely with our local state law enforcement partners on the ground.
"We will all work together to entirely determine accountability in this matter. We will spare no resource in this investigation."
Ryan Wesley Routh, 58, was charged with federal gun crimes Monday after his arrest Sunday for his actions outside of Trump International Golf Course in West Palm Beach, Florida, where he is alleged to have created a sniper's nest as Trump played golf.
Secret Service agents spotted Routh on Sunday with a scoped AK-47 rifle near the 6th hole of Trump's golf course in Palm Beach County, about 300 to 500 yards from the former president, police said. Police said it's likely Routh had been there, in wait, for 12 hours.
The thwarted assassination came almost exactly two months after Trump was shot and injured at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. That investigation remains ongoing.
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