Over the weekend, a second assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump’s life was made while he was playing golf at his own club, though thankfully the whole thing failed and Trump, along with his security detail made it out of the situation unscathed. And, this time around, the shooter was taken alive. This, of course, increases the chances that we actually get a motive out of this man, identified as Ryan Wesley Routh, and find out how in the world he was able to get into the club with an AK-47 and open fire on the current GOP nominee.
Martin County, Florida Sheriff Bill Snyder, during a press briefing about the incident and the suspect, seemed to drop a sizable hint about the possibility of there being some sort of conspiracy to have Trump killed by asking, “How does a guy who’s not from here, get all the way to Trump International, realize that the former president is golfing, and is able to get a rifle in that vicinity?”
And that’s a very good question considering that Trump’s whereabouts on Sunday were not public knowledge. How could the is man have carried out a pre-planned plot to assassinate the former president without someone on the inside feeding him this information? It seems nigh unto impossible. Could that mean there are actors within our own government who are seeking to have Trump eliminated before the election in November? That is a terrifying, yet absolutely real, possibility. It’s also possible that Iran is behind this action, having made threats against Trump following the first attempt on his life in July. A plot by individuals with connections to terrorist organizations was thwarted around that time.
Martin County, FL Sheriff Bill Snyder:
"How does a guy who's not from here, get all the way to Trump International, realize that the former president is golfing, and is able to get a rifle in that vicinity?" pic.twitter.com/nJS6XnATn6
— johnny maga (@_johnnymaga) September 16, 2024
What do we know about Routh thus far?
Via CNN:
Ryan Wesley Routh put his enmity toward Donald Trump – the man he once supported but then dismissed as an “idiot,” a “buffoon” and a “fool” – at the center of a rambling and fanciful worldview that also fixated on Ukraine, Taiwan, North Korea, and what he called the “end of humanity.” The 58-year-old, who was detained Sunday in connection with an apparent assassination attempt on the former president, protested in Kyiv after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, and committed his ideas to paper in a self-published 291-page book.
Authorities suspect Routh, who owns a small construction company in Hawaii, was planning to attack the former President as he played a round of golf on Sunday, with US Secret Service agents firing at a man with a rifle in the bushes near the golf club. He was later apprehended after being stopped on a nearby highway. Routh appeared in federal court Monday and was charged with two counts, possession of a firearm while a convicted felon and possession of a firearm with an obliterated serial number. Kristy Militello, the federal public defender assigned to Routh’s case, declined to comment after the hearing.
His business pursuits, by contrast, appear relatively unremarkable. On Routh’s LinkedIn page, he said he started a company in 2018 called Camp Box Honolulu in Hawaii, which builds storage units and tiny houses. A story in the Honolulu Star-Advertiser said he donated a structure for homeless people. During his court appearance on Monday, Routh said he was making $3,000 a month before his arrest, had “zero funds” in savings and had no assets beyond two trucks in Hawaii.
If Routh was only making $3,000 a month, how in the world did he afford to take a trip to Ukraine for a lengthy period of time? Is someone secretly bankrolling his endeavors that he has yet to name? Let’s hope that’s information that is obtained through proper investigative procedure and revealed to the public so we know the truth of what happened.
Routh has a few connections to North Carolina where public records reveal that he is registered politically as “unaffiliated.” He also participated in the Democratic Party primary in the state this past March. He’s also had a number of run-ins with police over the years. He was arrested in 2002 after being pulled over by police and allegedly putting his hand on a gun before driving off and barricading himself in a business.
He has also been involved in several court cases since the 1990s, with authorities repeatedly accusing him of failing to pay his taxes on time. Separately, judges have ordered him to pay tens of thousands of dollars to plaintiffs in various civil suits.
Routh voted for Trump in 2016, but quickly soured on him by June 2020.
“I and the world hoped that president Trump would be different and better than the candidate, but we all were greatly disappointment and it seems you are getting worse and devolving,” he wrote in a post published on X. “I will be glad when you gone.”
Routh also mentioned Trump in his book, which appears on Amazon without a publisher listed, and is titled “Ukraine’s Unwinnable War: The Fatal Flaw of Democracy, World Abandonment and the Global Citizen-Taiwan, Afghanistan, North Korea and the end of Humanity.” In that publication, he described the former US president’s withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal in 2018 as a “tremendous blunder” that drove Tehran closer to Moscow, which it then supplied with drones that have caused devastation across Ukraine.
The would-be assassin also made some comments concerning the first attempt on the former president’s life. He encouraged President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris to go and visit the individuals wounded in the incident because “Trump will never do anything.”
Again, how did this man get so close to the former president? It’s a question that keeps getting asked over and over again. We need answers now. It’s unacceptable that this has happened twice in the span of just a few months.
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