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The Background on the Alleged Suspect in New Trump Assassination Attempt Is Something Else
Red State ^ | September 15, 2024 | Nick Arama

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.


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To: SE Mom

I work at a club further north and we can go play Trump Int. or (more likely) Trump Jupiter pretty much whenever we want on weekday afternoons.

Talking to staff in Jupiter, sometimes they know PDJT is coming and sometimes it’s last minute. They buffer the 1st tee to leave open holes ahead and behind him for security purposes.

I’m assuming the assassin was on Kirk Rd., west of the golf course. I don’t know how soon the witness got the license #/car description to PB Sheriff’s office, but how did he get all the way to Martin County?


61 posted on 09/16/2024 5:49:52 AM PDT by FLNittany (Autotune is jealous of Karen Carpenter)
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To: OKSooner

Well, obviously he didn’t drive from Hawaii.

But it’s important WHEN he left Hawaii, WHERE did he go, WHEN did he acquire the rifle and the plates (or were they pre-planted), WHO put him in the Nissan Xterra or where did he get it (probably not PBI since he was heading up the coast and didn’t know they had his tags).

Lots of work to do here (unless the FBI already knows the answers to these and other questions).


62 posted on 09/16/2024 5:53:04 AM PDT by Jim Noble (Assez de mensonges et de phrases)
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To: dfwgator; Diogenesis; Red Badger; null and void; Travis McGee

OK....I’m starting to think that BlackRock is just a front - a very-well organized front.....a legitimate company but also maybe something else?

2 different assassins against President Trump in just barely over 2 months and BOTH of them are in BlackRock commercials?

WAY TOO MUCH for coincidence


63 posted on 09/16/2024 5:55:14 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: ops33

Ceramic plates or tiles are for BULLETPROOFNESS!


64 posted on 09/16/2024 5:57:56 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: FLNittany

In the press conference they said Martin County on I-95. Bystander took picture of the vehicle and tag and police used license plate scanners to track it. Also said they flew the bystander up to positively identify the suspect. So 45 minutes sounds about right if they put him in a helicopter to ID the gunman.


65 posted on 09/16/2024 5:58:02 AM PDT by gunnut
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To: RoosterRedux

“There’s a rat near Trump.”

Yes, that info had to come from inside. There are moles in the circle or that would have never happened. I have said it before... There are single, retired, bored, patriotic veterans who would jump at the chance to personally protect Trump. Trump would be much safer than trusting the system. Get rid of ALL government assets because they absolutely cannot be trusted.


66 posted on 09/16/2024 5:58:37 AM PDT by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: iontheball

All of that is true
My point was not that Trump can’t make a last minute decision to play golf, but that he doesn’t ring up the course and drive himself there.

If I make a t time my neighbor doesn’t know and no one at the course makes a fuss over it.
Once Trump made that decision lots of people are involved and one of them had to know this guy was on call for just this situation.

There is a rat(s) in the chain. Could be just a low level plant, hell Rosevelt’s secretary was a Soviet agent as i understand


67 posted on 09/16/2024 5:59:17 AM PDT by blitz128
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To: blitz128
Perhaps.

Here's what I was responding to in your comment:

Doesn’t have to be near him, any number of people in the govt would be aware of Trump's movements. USSS, FIB, local officials, hell even golf course employees
Safeguarding Trump requires tight control of the knowledge of his movements. The more people, in and out of government, that know his schedule, the more vulnerable he is.

What I am saying is that there is a rat (possibly an unwitting rat), either in his security detail, staff, or even family. Someone was talking.

Rallies are an exception because, though they may be known by all, those venues are the subject of much advance work.

There is no way that his Secret Service detail is going to approve of a release of his golf tee time much in advance of his arrival.

68 posted on 09/16/2024 6:04:56 AM PDT by RoosterRedux (Thinking objectively is difficult. And painful. That’s why many people just cling to their biases.)
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To: SaveFerris

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXcM6TrJO6s


69 posted on 09/16/2024 6:07:48 AM PDT by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: Red Badger

He’s clearly a simpleton radical, believes everything the media tells him.


70 posted on 09/16/2024 6:09:01 AM PDT by fuzzylogic (welfare state = sharing of poor moral choices among everybody)
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To: Openurmind

Ah, somebody else noticed too

I’ll have to watch that


71 posted on 09/16/2024 6:11:09 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: fuzzylogic

That’s what they want you to believe...................


72 posted on 09/16/2024 6:11:51 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Openurmind

Adding this to the thread - most recent would-be assassin ALSO in a BlackRock commercial - Just like the July 13th guy was

https://x.com/LangmanVince/status/1835631151236452695


73 posted on 09/16/2024 6:14:31 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: All

Ryan Wesley Routh was in a BlackRock commercial, just like
the first Trump shooter in Butler, Pa, Thomas Matthew Crooks.

........just a coincidence.....snx........


74 posted on 09/16/2024 6:15:59 AM PDT by Liz (Faith is believing what you cannot see; its reward is to see what you believe. St Augustine)
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To: gundog

*Care to try again?*

nope-I’m old.


75 posted on 09/16/2024 6:19:11 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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To: Red Badger

They’re out there...his interview while in Ukraine is pretty telling. The media told him it was purely ‘good vs evil’, so he went over there to fight. He felt thousands from all over the world should do the same, didn’t understand why not.

An idiot leftist that will actually ‘fight for the cause’ - unlike most of them.


76 posted on 09/16/2024 6:19:33 AM PDT by fuzzylogic (welfare state = sharing of poor moral choices among everybody)
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To: FLNittany

Thanks for the local insights. Someone, in some capacity had to inform Royth when and where Trump would be yesterday afternoon. Whether it was a government agency or a local club groundskeeper- someone told him.

The alternative is Routh said to himself- I’ll take a chance he’ll be golfing- set up my nest with gopro, scope, rifle, bags...

It’s possible that’s what happened. It’s very unlikely.


77 posted on 09/16/2024 6:20:39 AM PDT by SE Mom (ScreamingEagleMom)
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To: fuzzylogic

Where did he get the money to do all this globetrotting?....................


78 posted on 09/16/2024 6:21:14 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: ops33
“He also had a bag with ceramic plates.” This makes no sense to me.

He hung up two (2) ceramic SAPI plates to 1) create concealment AND hard cover. 2) Creates a smaller thermal target against RISTA assets.

SAPI Plates

79 posted on 09/16/2024 6:45:30 AM PDT by DCBryan1 (Inter arma enim silent leges! - Cicero )
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To: Red Badger

“”””Where did he get the money to do all this globetrotting?....................””””

I don’t think he needed much, he had owned a roofing business, has had a contractors license, did construction and I assume remodeling and handyman stuff, all that translates to a guy who knows how to dig up some money when he needs it or can focus on work for a few months when he is broke or wants to buy something or take a trip, and a guy who is used to odd jobs and working when he wants to.


80 posted on 09/16/2024 6:47:29 AM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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