The Brit Who Tried to Kill Trump (2017)

The Brit Who Tried to Kill Trump (2017)

During the 2016 US presidential campaign, Micheal Sandford (a 20 year old British citizen) traveled to the United States, attended a Donald Trump rally in Las Vegas, where he was subsequently arrested for trying to steal a police officer’s gun to shoot the presidential hopeful.

Fascinating BBC3 documentary by Guy Simmonds, that follows Micheal Sandford’s family to the United states as they try to come to terms with the actions of their son and the legal challenges that await him there.

“But how did a young middle-class boy from suburban Surrey who suffers from Asperger’s end up thousands of miles from home? And what drove him to attempt to kill one of the most powerful men in the world?.” BBC