In his hometown, Trump's alleged would-be assassin acted like he was 'above the law'

npr ^ | 09/21/2024 | Tovia Smith

[UCANSEE2]

Thank you. I am no gun expert, was just passing on information I had read that seemed the most accurate. I think that you are correct. Sporterized.

I’m assuming that ‘Sporterized’ means .... What can I do that’s cheap and will impress a 12 year old.

[Deo volente]

So when will he be charged with attempted assassination? Currently he’s only being held on gun charges? Another probation incoming?

[UCANSEE2]

Of course, Routh is a bit of a grandstander, and somewhat off his rocker, such that he may end up admitting proudly that he was laying in wait specifically for Orange Man Bad.

It would fit his past pattern of behavior.

[one guy in new jersey]

Very good question.

The way This Guy imagined it upon hearing the account of the the SS agent in question (the one who opened fire), it was exactly as you’ve described: “Routh shoved the barrel of his rifle through the fence and was waiving it around, drawing attention to himself, before the supposed target was even in view.”

That would appear to be a sufficient progression toward murdering at least someone on the golf course.

OTOH, if it was just the tip of the barrel of a propped-up rifle (i.e., leaning against the fence) that was sticking through the chain link, would that be sufficient?

The SS agent’s reaction may be instructive in this regard. He sensed imminent danger to President Trump, immediately drew his weapon, and began firing. The level of danger to Trump that the SS agent perceived, as it turned out, was the exact level of danger to Trump that was present. It’s hard to imagine an impartial jury not being amenable to a skillful prosecutor’s arguments to this effect.

[UCANSEE2]

Please see #’s 26 and 36 and perhaps respond?

I have. Thank you for your responses.

[UCANSEE2]

Can you imagine if a Trump supporter was caught taking this action toward Kommieala?

That would take a huge imagination because I don't think any Trump supporter has even contemplated using that kind of action to defeat her in the upcoming election.

Now, her staff(especially former staff) might.

[shanover]

NPR writes at a elementary school level.

[one guy in new jersey]

You know, if in fact the gun was propped up against the chain link fence when the SS Agent caught sight of the tip of the gun barrel, Routh could very well have been in the very final stages of tracking his prey. Then, once Routh determined his prey was within high-percentage accuracy shooting range, he would have had the gun ready to go, and within easy reach, enabling him quickly to grab it, stick the barrel through the fence once again at a slightly lower height, point it in the general direction of Trump, get set in prone firing position, take final aim with the aid of his scope, and start firing.

[ridesthemiles]

WHAT happened to the horse???

[bobbo666]

He is your typical narcissistic progressive. Just look at his support for Ukraine, that is a tell for stupidity.

[chopperk]

Routh’s handlers pumped him up with money and ideas.

[flamberge]

The second amendment applies to sickos like Routh as well as the rest of us. There's no illegal possession, just illegal use.

In Theory. In Practice? There is very little remaining of the second amendment. I will not speak in defense of Routh on this point.

Just try getting into a shootout with police when one has a machine gun in possession. The "ordinary" citizen will get serious jail time and fines that will impoverish him for life.

Routh did not get any of that. It screams "recruited as a low-level asset by one of the Federal Agencies". His subsequent antics as a world-traveller and erstwhile recruiter of mercenaries for the war in Ukraine points in the same direction.

And where did he get the money to do all of that? He lived in Hawaii, supposedly on an annual income of less than $30,000.

I am not concerned with his "Second amendment rights". I am concerned with mine.

[Tellurian]

He said his WIFE paid for everything.

Is his wife's last name Shaeffer (sp?) or Routh? I've read the woman with the money had a business address in McClean VA (SeeAyeEi location), but Ryan Routh's twitter record mentions a woman named Shaeffer (sp?) who worked with Victoria's Secret for decades (and not the McClean VA company. In the mention he's complaining that she was fired over nothing after 3 decades at the company.

[EnderWiggin1970]

“I’ve had well over 100 encounters with Ryan,” Rasecke said. (snip) Rasecke remembers Routh as a cocky guy with a grandiose view of himself and a sense that he was "above the law."

Well, if a police officer has had over 100 "encounters" with a guy and he's not in prison or otherwise dealt with, I'd say Routh was correct.

[Tunehead54]

Oh boy! Facts! BUMP!!!

;-)

[Zathras]

Drugs and alcohol.
It’s always someone else’s fault.

[Navy Patriot]

After reading that, I can see that Routh was the perfect Ukrainian.

He was just born in America, which was bad luck for ordinary Americans, but very good luck for Prog Socialist Democrats.

[piasa]

Rasecke remembers Routh living there in a small, single story, two-bedroom home, where he was also housing a half dozen or so workers from his roofing company. “It was very dingy and dirty,” Rasecke recalls. “There was mattresses on the floor, there was trash on the floor. It stunk. It was nasty.” Routh had built a metal addition on the back of the house, where more workers lived, Rasecke says, and across the street, he ran electricity and water to a large windowless trailer, where workers lived as well.

Sounds like he hired a lot of illegal aliens.

[piasa]

Doesn’t mean recently.
Sounds like it was a shambles already, years ago when he still lived there.

[MayflowerMadam]

He acted like he was above the law because he was above the law. 74 arrests, and not one day in jail? Someone was protecting him.