The suspected attack on Trump was hidden for 12 hours in the bushes.

It was hot and cloudy Sunday afternoon when Trump and his good friend, real estate developer Steve Witkoff, arrived at the course of the International Trump Golf Club in West Palm Beach.

Trump ) who was evacuated unscathed indicated on Monday evening that he had heard “maybe four or five” shots fired at a nearby distance.

A secret Service agent who reacted quickly had opened fire in the direction of the suspect, who was about 300m away and did not have a clear line of sighting the Trump, federal investigators said.

The Secret Service immediately realized it was bullets. They (secret service) caught me”, Trump said during a live broadcast event on X, once Titter, from his resort Mar-a-Lago, the BBC reports, broadcasts Klankosova.tv.

The armed man for whom investigators say no shots were fired hid in well - decorated bushes and tall palm trees lying on the 27 - hole perimeter.

The suspect was equipped with two digital cameras, a black plastic bag with food, a semi-automatic SKS-style SKS rifle a weapon with an action ray of about 440 meters and a space to enlarge its lens.

The latest publicly planned Republican presidential candidate campaign event had been Saturday evening, on the other side of the country, in the state of Utah.

Residents say Trump spends almost every Sunday at the West Palm Beach golf club when it's not in the campaign campaign.

But Secret Service Director Ronald Rowe said on Monday that former President “as had to really go there”, so agents had to draw up a security plan at the last minute.