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.
RISTA = Reconnaissance, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Target Acquisition in case you didn’t know.
I saw a picture of this guy wearing body armor. The "plates" could be inserts for his armor.
“faced charges including having a “weapon of mass destruction” because they said he had a “fully automatic machine gun.”
Wait, so now guns are being classified as WMDs? So I guess this means Saddamn did have WMDs if a machine gun is a WMD
“There’s a rat near Trump.”
I was just reading over on X that the golf outing was a last minute decision. Someone was in touch with the shooter.
“very unlikely”
This was posted a short time ago:
“Trump One at the airport advises he’s in town, and from there a decent chance he’ll be playing golf sometime on a Sunday. Watching for the motorcade predicts he’d be coming around to holes #5 & #6 within an hour or two.”
With that background hr should have ran for a Congressional seat as a Democrat in California ... I’m sure he would have run
...”a decent chance he’ll be playing golf sometime on a Sunday”...
But do I want to take the chance I’ll be discovered? It’s possible this is simpler than it seems, but I still think it’s unlikely.
I’ve been wrong before- and stay open to being wrong again lol
He hadn’t thought of citizen who photo’d his license plate and his running from the fence line leaving his very identifiable gear. So what tag was on the vehicle, was it his, where was he staying and when did he come in.. and how.
Travels all over the world on airlines, what credit card— you cannot buy tickets afaik with cash- not for some time. Maybe pick up a car with quick cash. This guy is of course, a criminal. Sure isn’t helping Ukraine’s cause so maybe he is fronted by Blackrock worldwide who fronts for .....??? Hmm.
Yes, exactly. This guy has been living large on someone else’s dime. Who was paying him for his work rounding up gullible human beings to be sent into the grinder in Ukraine? Was there American tax money involved?
(Confirming his status as a dumbass, using an AK in a place where a real, actual, rifle with at least average accuracy would be preferred... fortunately for POTUSDJT and the Secret Service guy who apparently traded shots with him, handgun against "rifle", and ran him off...)
Dude! The guy was in HAWAII.
We don't know right now when he left Hawaii and where he went, but I'm pretty sure that IF Florida has access to the interrogation before the perp is silenced, the whole thing will stink of tradecraft.
unping me. Too much diatribe in headline body of message.
No. Use the same time machine to go back to 9 months before he was born and interrupt Herr Hitler and Frau Hitler while they are trying to start little baby Adolf. A simple knock on the door could suffice...
Ooo ooo, can I play?
hoes this guy should be how does this guy.
What do I win?
The fact that he’s male and driving an Xterra is all the evidence you need that’s he’s mentally unbalanced.
That was not a Blackrock commercial.
It’s a video in support of the Azov battalion.
https://x.com/save_mrpl/status/1520721566077698049?s=46&t=hWssUi0X691Hwrvdapympg
He wasn’t living large he was traveling to places and he never actually recruited anyone or worked for anybody to recruit for, it was all his illusions of greatness.
https://x.com/visegrad24/status/1835499461881078153
1. Writes Ukrainian presidential advisor Podolyak that he, Ryan Routh, will personally buy Poland’s MiG-29 fighter jets and then “fly them at night just above ground and hit every place Putin sleeps”
4. Writes Sean Penn with a request that Sean and Ryan but Poland’s MiG-29 fighters jets together and then go together to borrow some Patriot Missile Defense Systems at the border.
“How can they say no to you?”
6. Goes to Taiwan to offer them “50 000 Afghan soldiers”
“He also had a bag with ceramic plates.”
“This makes no sense to me”
Poor man’s body armour?
Question: The does this guy get his money to move around and do those things like that?
Actually it was Dracula who shared it first.
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