Shots fired and ‘rather quick golf carts’: Trump tells the story

PALM BEACH, Fla. — Sitting in his private office at Mar-a-Lago the day after a second attempt on his life , Donald Trump described for me the chaotic scene at his West Palm Beach, Fla., golf club on Sunday.

The walls of his office are lined with old black-and-white family portraits, as well as more recent White House photos of Queen Elizabeth II — Trump’s Scottish mother was a huge admirer of the late British monarch — and his meeting with Kim Jong Un at the dividing line between North and South Korea. From behind his large oak desk, Trump told me what happened in the moments after a Secret Service agent noticed the barrel of an assault rifle sticking through the hedges lining the course about 400 yards away from the former president..