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The FBI says former President Donald Trump was the target of what appeared to be an attempted assassination at his West Palm Beach Golf Club in Florida.

U.S. Secret Service agents opened fire Sunday after saying a man with a gun while the Republican presidential candidate was golfing.

Officials say the suspect Ryan, Ruth, was arrested after taking off and an SUV.

This comes 2 months after Trump was shot during an assassination attempt at a Pennsylvania rally on social media.

U.S. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky said he was grateful the former president is safe.

Adding, quote, There is no place for political violence in our country.

And I hope and expect a thorough swift and transparent investigation and quote.

His colleague in junior senator from Kentucky is also responding in a radio interview this morning.

Senator Rand Paul cast some of the blame on left-leaning cable news.

>> You've been so many of the different networks claiming that Donald Trump is going to end the watch and he's going to end democracy.

That Donald Trump and Ted Barr, that kind of rhetoric and that kind of language is exciting, unstable and crazy and angry people around the country.

And so networks like CNN that broadcast nonstop that somehow we're not going to election to Donald Trump and they need to stop that this terrible language and that language it stirs up the worst in humanity.

>> Are, you know, ways to protect prop?

>> In 2017, Senator Paul was himself at the scene of political violence when a gunman opened fire at a congressional baseball game practice in Virginia, injuring