Posted on 09/16/2024 4:42:19 AM PDT by Red Badger
Martin County Sheriff's Office via AP
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Fox News has reported that the alleged suspect in the second Trump assassination attempt is Ryan Wesley Routh, as we reported earlier.
He allegedly aimed a rifle through the fence on the golf course where Trump was. He was about 300-500 yards away. Law enforcement claimed he had an AK-47 with a scope and a Go-Pro camera at the fence. He also had a bag with ceramic plates. The Secret Service fired at him and he fled in a black SUV. A citizen saw him and took a picture of his license which the citizen gave to police. The suspect was later caught on the highway by the Martin County Sheriff's Office. Sheriff William Snyder said the suspect was "calm" and not armed when he was stopped. He is now in custody.
Now there's more information about this man and it's concerning.
According to the Sacramento Bee,
[He had a] criminal history in North Carolina that includes convictions between 2002 and 2010 of possession of weapons of mass destruction, carrying a concealed gun, hit and run, possession of stolen goods and resisting law enforcement, among other charges. He’s registered in North Carolina as an unaffiliated voter. In North Carolina, unaffiliated voters can choose which primary they want to vote in. Routh chose Democrats.
The News and Record had a 2002 report about a Ryan Routh who barricaded himself inside United Roofing and then faced charges including having a "weapon of mass destruction" because they said he had a "fully automatic machine gun."
The News & Observer said Routh was interviewed in 2022 by Newsweek Romania and in 2023 by The New York Times for helping to recruit civilian volunteers to help Ukraine fight the war against Russia.
“If governments won’t send their official military, then we civilians have to pick up the torch and make this happen,” Routh told Newsweek.
You can also see a report on Semafor where they covered Routh in passing and his effort to raise volunteers for Ukraine.
According to the NY Times:
In the interview, Mr. Routh said he was in Washington to meet with the U.S. Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, known as the Helsinki Commission “for two hours” to help push for more support for Ukraine. The commission is led by members of Congress and staffed by congressional aides. It is influential on matters of democracy and security and has been vocal in supporting Ukraine.
Routh allegedly has also made small donations to Democrats through ActBlue. He purportedly made 19 donations since 2019, including for individual 2020 Democratic presidential primary candidates including former Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D-TX), Andrew Yang, Tom Steyer, and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA). He has not donated to Joe Biden or Kamala Harris.
According to what people have seen of what is believed to be his X account, he was a huge supporter of Ukraine and he's also made a lot of bizarre posts, like this one to Elon Musk.
“I would like to buy a rocket from you. I wish to load it with a warhead for Putin’s Black Sea mansion bunker to end him. Can you give me a price please. It can be old and used as not returning,” Routh wrote
You can see more of what appears to be his X account here. I was looking at it as it went down, so thanks to Billboard Chris for preserving it.
According to the NY Post:
He advised Biden, 81, in an April 22 X post when he was still running for reelection, to run a campaign around keeping “America democratic and free.”
He claimed Trump wants to “make Americans slaves against master.”
“DEMOCRACY is on the ballot and we cannot lose,” he wrote, a similar slogan commonly used by President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris.
“We cannot afford to fail,” Routh continued. “The world is counting on us to show the way.”
While he had been in North Carolina, he relocated to Hawaii.
What isn't clear is how he knew Trump would be there at that time at the golf course, since that wasn't on Trump's public schedule. That raises even more questions.
Police radio can only travel so fast...
NEVER!
(lawyers...)
bingo!
Heck, I’ve seen drones on TV that made an image of Howie in the night sky!
IF you find out - ping me, as I have a LOT of questions pertaining to this!
Where’s this PICTURE?
Cheap body armor........
To WHERE?
Just WHERE on the very busy street was his NISSAN waiting for him?
Across the street behind the Mobil station?
Kobayashi Maru
You win a bomb set up to you!
Then we wouldn’t have to deal with the “Boys from Brazil”.
What about ABORTION?
Surely the world has been spared the acts of over 65,000,000 humans that never grew up to spew their EVILNESS! upon the rest of us!!
Much easier to do than eliminating him at the source, is to minimize, nullify, ignore, or claim never happened, the bad things that HITLER! foisted upon us.
This is being accomplished even as I type in many parts of the world.
(Sometimes a memory hole is just a memory hole.)
Well, just who AIN’T gots three names?
Madonna, Prince, and pot full of Hispanics...
If they look hard enough they’ll find it was HE who left his drugs at the White House!
HMMMmmm...
Party ownership of the print media made it easy to manipulate public opinion, and the film and radio carried the process further.
“His” Nissan - which he drove from Hawaii?
Was the plate that was sent out as a BOLO registered to him? In what State?
trump internalional is in west palm beach its closer then the others.
Are you sure that history didn’t create Hitler, rather than the other way around?
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