Posted on 09/17/2024 8:21:40 AM PDT by Starman417
by Jeff Childers
Failed assassin Ryan Routh was in federal court yesterday, in a hearing quite logically called the “first appearance.” Fox covered the story under the headline, “Trump assassination attempt suspect laughs, smiles during first court appearance in Florida.” Routh was apparently cracking jokes with his public defender, which sounds annoying but could just be his way of managing anxiety.
Details were sparsely provided, but this most interesting paragraph leaped out:
Right away, we see some problems. For Portlanders, Routh claimed an annual income of $36,000 — far below the poverty level. Which means there is a lot of mysterious money floating around world-traveling Mr. Routh.
Here are only a few of the many possible questions: how did Routh afford international travel to and from Ukraine? Or to buy guns, body armor, and GoPro cameras? Who owns the Nissan truck he tried to escape in? Did he rent it? If so, with what money and what credit? How did Routh get to Florida? Where was he staying? How was he paying for stuff? Cash? Credit?
How did flat-broke Routh get in front of nearly every corporate media camera and reporter in 2022, from Newsweek to the New York Times?
Routh has an extensive low-level criminal record going back decades, including felony weapons violations. How did he buy the gun he brought to Trump’s golf course? According to the FBI’s criminal affidavit, it was a military SKS-style assault rifle made in former Soviet bloc countries, so it wasn’t from around here. The rifle’s serial number was "obliterated" and unreadable to the naked eye.
Why obliterate the serial number? Who is Routh trying to protect? Who gave him that gun?
We’re not the only ones asking questions. Martin County Sheriff Will Snyder, whose officers arrested Routh, gave a courageous —even reckless— press conference yesterday during which he said the quiet part out loud.
At yesterday’s Martin County press conference about the arrest, Sheriff Snyder wondered whether Routh could be part of a conspiracy:
“He was smart, he was just driving with the flow of traffic. He may have thought he got away with it. He couldn’t have known a witness took a picture.It’s a literal conspiracy theory! And Sheriff Snyder’s question was a good one. But, to expand on his theory: was Routh connected in any way to any U.S. security state agency or NGO? To any Ukrainian security or intelligence agency?He’s not from this area. Which raises the bigger question, how does a guy get all the way to Trump International, realize the former President is golfing, and is able to get a rifle into that vicinity?
Is this guy part of a conspiracy? Or a lone gunman? If he’s part of a conspiracy, then this whole thing takes on a really ominous tone.”
Where has that skinny hedge-hider been hanging out recently? And with whom?
(Excerpt) Read more at floppingaces.net ...
Hillary Clinton says Trump poses 'danger to our country and the world'
Hillary Clinton got clowned by Trump in 2016 and was hated by her own.
It's not like it would not be a "Clinton" thing to make people disappear after-all.
...hmmmm
I don’t remember, but probably Chinese. All the AKs we were getting were Chinese. Was right on the Cambodian border, lots of very new stuff, uniforms, etc., mostly Chinese manufactured.
If I remember right early in the war the Russians supplied most of the NVN army equipment and later the Chinese did.
The AK’s you can buy at your neighborhood gun store are semi-auto. An SKS would be better for sniping at someone than even those, but it’s not great. My guess is that he bought it because it’s cheap.
True statement but it does launch a bullet.
Figuring out its history is probably be problematic:
1. The SKS was made for many years by at least seven countries and the ATF's records do not account for the many duplicative serial numbers. It is possible for an expert on the SKS to get a really good idea of which country made it but if it was China all bets are off, because the Chinese did not keep good records to ensure that the different depots kept their serial numbers depot specific. So while it will be easy to recover the serial number (High tech x-ray machines can tell the pressed metal where the serial number used to be.), there may be 3-10 rifles with the same serial number.
2. Most SKS' entered the country many years ago and have passed through many owners.
Unless it has recently passed through a gun shop or pawn shop, establishing history will be difficult.
I am thinking that if you wanted to get a rifle where establishing its ownership path would be very difficult, then the SKS is about as good as it gets.
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That’s pretty much what I heard, and found. Of course, Naval Intel was all over anything we found, and didn’t tell us a lot. When we or local VNs encountered VC, they had old arms — WWII US, Russian, and French rifles. But the NVA troops coming south had current ChiCom equipment.
Snyder is doing a REAL investigation. DeSantis has made sure of it.
The FBI are playing rope a dope and covering up evidence.Just like they did in Butler.
I hope that Snyder gets a YUGE budget boost from DeSantis.
This case will involve an international component IMHO......straight to Zelensky and the Biden/Obama/Brennan wet works team.
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What? Maybe for a family of 4, but a single guy?
$36,000 translates to $17.30 an hour.
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