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Fox News host Jesse Watters in disbelief after learning Secret Service shot at and missed...

• https://www.dailymail.co, By KATELYN CARALLE

The U.S. Secret Service was unable to neutralize a threat to Donald Trump from just five feet away according to a bombshell new report.

An agent fired off at least six rounds at Ryan Wesley Routh in West Palm Beach, Florida, in September but was unable to hit the target before he fled, according to the 180-page House Assassination Task Force report.

Fox News host Jesse Watters expressed outrage at the latest revelation on his hit show on Wednesday night.

'He was only five feet away and he missed [Routh] not once, not twice, but six times,' Watters exclaimed. 

'He missed him six times, from five feet. How does a trained agent who passed the firearms test miss a target five feet away?' he questioned.

The report claimed the deadly shooting at Trump's Butler, Pennsylvania, rally on July 13 was 'preventable and should not have happened.'

But the report also encompassed the new details about the second foiled attempt on Trump's life at his golf course in West Palm Beach.

'The report says the Secret Service found out at 2:30 in the morning that Trump would be golfing that day,' Watters said of the West Palm Beach incident. 'But they didn't secure the course, allowing Routh to camp out for 12 hours before anyone saw him.'

Routh appeared in court on Wednesday and his legal team is using the insanity defense.

'How convenient,' said Watters with skepticism about the proposed defense.

The report notes: 'The agent first noticed the suspect, later identified as Ryan Wesley Routh, and then noticed the barrel of Routh's gun sticking through the fence line. The special agent, who may have been as close as five feet away from Routh, immediately responded by firing shots toward the suspect. It is believed six shots in total were fired; however, final ballistics are pending an ongoing FBI investigation.'