The suspect in an apparent attempt on former US president Donald Trump’s life was charged with two firearms offences, US authorities said on Monday. According to allegations in court documents, a US Secret Service agent walking the perimeter of Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Florida, on Sunday afternoon while Trump was playing “saw what appeared to be a rifle poking out of the tree line.” After the agent fired a service weapon in the direction of the gun, a witness saw a man later identified as 58-year-old Ryan Wesley Routh fleeing the area. Routh escaped in a vehicle and wa…