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An attempt to gain an audience with the president-elect resulted in no charges, even after the uninvited appearance involved an allegedly stolen car.
President-elect Donald Trump has often made a point to credit the U.S. Secret Service detail responsible for his protection along with the law enforcement agencies that they collaborate with. Despite efforts to keep the once and future leader of the free world safe, suspicious behavior wasn’t enough to level charges on 53-year-old Farbot Dolat who’d been arrested outside Mar-a-Lago.
“Although there was probable cause to make an arrest, the evidence cannot prove all legally required elements of the crime alleged and is insufficient to support a criminal prosecution,” detailed Assistant State Attorney Michael G. Kridos in a Palm Beach County court filing on Dec. 18.
The decision came more than a month after the Nov. 14 arrest of Dolat of Sarasota, Florida who’d had allegedly stolen a rental car in his supposed effort to interact with Trump.
Details of the police report had been documented by the Palm Beach Daily News which indicated a woman in Sarasota County had rented a Hyundai Kona before meeting with her acquaintance, Dolat, on the way to buy a car.
However, after stopping at a bank to withdraw money ahead of the purchase near Sarasota, the woman had exited the bank to discover that Dolat had apparently left with the rental en route to Palm Beach.
“It remains unclear why Dolat wanted to speak to Trump. A request for comment to his attorney with the Palm Beach County Public Defender’s Office was not returned by Tuesday, Dec. 24 morning,” detailed the Daily News.
The man was one of at least five people who had attempted to reach the president-elect at Mar-a-Lago in the months since a would-be assassin had fired at Trump during a July 13 rally in Butler, Pennsylvania that left two others injured and firefighter Corey Comperatore dead.
Meanwhile, Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody had announced an attempted felony murder charge against Trump’s alleged second would-be assassin, Ryan Routh, after a six-year-old girl was “seriously injured” and “almost died” when the suspect had allegedly fled Trump’s West Palm Beach golf course on Sept. 15.
“We felt compelled to seek justice on her behalf and her family that will never be the same as they cope with her injuries,” said Moody.
With weeks to go before his inauguration, former Secret Service agent Richard Staropoli had warned in early December that the president-elect was still at risk ahead of his second term.
“I’m not highly confidant at all,” the former agent had said during an appearance on Fox News’ “America Reports.” “The Secret Service that you see out there today is not the Secret Service of yesteryear. Somewhere along the line, they’ve completely dropped the ball.”
“That testimony that you saw today,” he said referencing acting Secret Service Director Ronald Rowe’s appearance before the House’s Task Force on Trump Assassination Attempts, “was purely a smokescreen to cover up the shortcomings of a politically compromised agency. It should never had gotten to that point.”
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