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Trump assassination attempt: Suspect Ryan Routh played 'cat and mouse' with police, expert says
https://www.foxnews.com ^ | 9/20/2024 | Christina Coulter

Posted on 09/20/2024 7:21:51 AM PDT by bitt

Routh seems like 'someone who is constantly trying to poke somebody and see what their response is going to be,' says former FBI agent Scott Duffey

A former FBI agent told Fox News Digital that there was "a clear mental illness component" that motivated would-be assassin Ryan Routh to take aim at former President Donald Trump on Sept. 15.

Before he was charged with two gun-related crimes in a Florida court on Monday, Routh, 58, had more than a hundred interactions with police between the 1980s and 2010.

His prior charges range from writing bad checks to felony firearms possession, possession of a stolen vehicle and multiple counts of possession of a weapon of mass destruction in 2002 — specifically, a "binary explosive with a 10-in[ch] detonation cord and a blasting cap."

Retired FBI Supervisory Special Agent Scott Duffey told Fox News Digital that Routh's frequent run-ins with police, combined with his social media persona, were indicative of "someone who is constantly trying to poke somebody and see what their response is going to be."

"It's not only a lengthy criminal arrest record, but for several decades," Duffey said. "You have this escalation of violent acts, and then, of course, other contacts with police like driving without a license. Those are not violent acts, but they are constant contacts with police. That tells me that over the past few decades, whatever was going through his head, he wanted to be in contact with law enforcement."

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 1980s; 1990s; 2000s; 2002; 2010; arrests; assassinationattempt; binaryexplosives; blastingcap; blastingcaps; bomb; bomber; bombplot; catchandrelease; detonationcord; ryanrouth; scottduffey; trump; tulsigabbard
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To: bitt
"a clear mental illness component"

Better stated, "Liberalism is a mental disorder."

21 posted on 09/20/2024 7:50:21 AM PDT by cross_bearer_02
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To: bitt

CatTurd made the comment “how did this North Carolina know about Trump’s last minute decision to go play golf?”


22 posted on 09/20/2024 7:52:58 AM PDT by MNDude
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To: bitt

There’s a mental illness component in about half of the country


23 posted on 09/20/2024 7:53:20 AM PDT by bigbob
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To: bitt; All

What I wonder about is where he gets his money to do these things? He has to eat and live somewhere...not counting the times he spent in prison. As for that, he never seemed to have spent a lot of time in prison. I wonder if he is some sort of black -ops special skills asset that is a little mentally loose...but they keep him out of prison because when he is needed to perform, his worth outweighs his deficits!


24 posted on 09/20/2024 7:58:22 AM PDT by mdmathis6 (A horrible historic indictment: Biden Democrats plunging the world into war to hide their crimes!)
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To: bitt

“On December 15–16, 2002, Routh was convicted of possessing a firearm; resisting, delaying and obstructing a law enforcement officer and driving with license revoked after a three-hour stand off with police. He was pulled over while driving, and during the traffic stop he put his hand on a gun and then drove to a nearby business, where he barricaded himself inside. In 2003, he was sentenced for driving without a license, carrying a concealed weapon and hit-and-run. In 2010, he was convicted of possessing stolen goods. For each of these charges he was given probation.”

“According to various posts on his Twitter account in 2023, Routh tagged the Haitian National Police and asserted that he had thousands of NATO-trained Afghan soldiers who “wish to serve for the Haiti national police at cheap wages.” He also claimed to have 1,000 soldiers with passports ready to fly.”

“Criminal charge
Possession of a firearm by a convicted felon
Possession of a firearm with the serial number removed”

“On the day of his arraignment, he was seen smiling and laughing with his lawyer”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryan_Wesley_Routh


25 posted on 09/20/2024 7:58:44 AM PDT by Brian Griffin (Kamala: "some people need more, so we all end up in the same place, right?”)
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To: bitt
Both Hawaii and Florida have habitual offender laws.

this guy should have been incarcerated at some point. Enough to discourage his recent activities.So the only thing I conclude is that he was repeatedly released for grooming purposes.

26 posted on 09/20/2024 8:02:13 AM PDT by caddie
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To: mdmathis6

“some sort of black -ops special skills asset”

I suspect he was a mercenary recruitment specialist.


27 posted on 09/20/2024 8:02:18 AM PDT by Brian Griffin (Kamala: "some people need more, so we all end up in the same place, right?”)
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To: Brian Griffin
“some sort of black -ops special skills asset”

I suspect he was a mercenary recruitment specialist.


I suspect he's a loony.
28 posted on 09/20/2024 8:07:06 AM PDT by larrytown (A Cadet will not lie, cheat, steal, or tolerate those who do. Then they graduate...)
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This is one of those classic FoxSpews stories where they service Lachlan Murdoch, who services the Democrats and the gun grabbers. He and Karamela and Puffy have a lot in common.

This piece is meant to paint Routh as just a garden-variety deranged wannabe Florida Man, instead of getting to the truth about his astounding number of neogov NGO, neoMarxist, neoDemocrat connections.

This assassin was a D-list globalist, perfect fodder for recruitment and control by any agency that wished harm upon the former President.

This article-to-order by Lachlan then extensively quotes Duffey (who is not what he appears to be) to what can only be to buttress and promote Kamala's outright forfeiture and home invasion IF the state merely wants your weapons.

Duffey suggested that Routh may have had a sentencing deferral due to mental health concerns, possibly undergoing an intensive treatment program in lieu of prosecution.

"It tells me that something took place as a result of that incident [where Routh barricaded himself in 2002], whether it be a mental breakdown, something was going on inside his head," Duffey said.

"It'd be interesting to see if he surrendered, if there was in fact some sort of weapon and why was he out and about a year later?" "It's telling me that there is a mental health component to this, that he's someone that has had quite a bit of history with contacts with police," Duffey continued.

"For example, the barricaded gun situation, the driving without a license – was he purposely trying to do a cat and mouse game with law enforcement?"

This is arm-in-arm with Karamela's “Just because you legally possess a gun in the sanctity of your locked home doesn't mean that we're not going to walk into that home and check to see if you're being responsible and safe in the way you conduct your affairs.”

If that isn't bad enough, he concludes by tainting and conflating social media usage with mass shooters. Again, this is sockpuppetry by Lachlan and his overpreening desire to get rid of websites with constitutionalist Mission Statements, hint hint.

"That's free speech, right, to spout off things that either make sense or don't make sense. [But] you see a lot of [social media] ramblings in a lot of these previous mass shooter incidents," Duffey told Fox News Digital.

29 posted on 09/20/2024 8:09:53 AM PDT by StAnDeliver (TrumpII)
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To: left that other site
Routh, 58, had more than a hundred interactions with police between the 1980s and 2010.

He also travelled to Ukraine, advertised a "foundation" in which he was raising money to bring 10s of thousands of Syrian Jihadis and Afghanis to Ukraine to fight, purchased weapons for such, etc..

And despite all this, was "unknown" to the FBI, CIA etc..

LOL!

30 posted on 09/20/2024 8:14:06 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: caddie

The FBI commonly recruits “ne’er do wells” as “assets” , “confidential informants” . The criminals are given free rein as long as they check in every so often .

Congress asked FBI Director Wray about FBI “assets” involved with J6. Wray essentially told Congress to buzz off. He refused to answer.


31 posted on 09/20/2024 8:15:29 AM PDT by OldHarbor
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To: PGR88
Yep.

And yet, I wrote this story (TRUE) a few years ago, and posted it in my Jerusalem Thread on FR. Not all of the story is relevant to this case, but it DOES show the attitude of our "letter" Agencies:

In 2013, I was alone in Honolulu Airport, barefoot, snaking through the TSA line in order to catch a connecting flight home. The elderly gent ahead of me, who showed signs of being in an early stage of dementia, was being assisted by his wife. The wife presented a doctor's letter to the TSA Agent, who shook her head and said the man had to go through the metal detector, letter or not. The poor old guy stepped through the portal and set off every alarm in the place.

"I TOLD YOU!" the woman screamed. "HE HAS A METAL PLATE IN HIS HEAD!"

Then, the poor old man started to weep with embarrassment and humiliation. It was a horrible scene.

Because I was next in line, I opted to go through the X-Ray machine instead of the metal detector, due to the drama that was taking place over there. I normally don't like the X-Ray machine, but, at this moment, it was my best alternative. And so I went through the machine. More Alarms! The TSA Agent came over to me and said,

"There is something obscuring the image on your right breast. We can go into a back room if you want, or I can examine it through your clothing right here."

I had a plane to catch, so I let her touch me, but there was nothing there but me. Suddenly it dawned on me...I was wearing a very strong SUNSCREEN that was maybe blocking some of the X-rays and producing a blurred image. She accepted my explanation, and I ran to catch my plane, leaving behind a scene of apologizing managers, supervisors, and TSA Agents who realized that the weeping old man was a Pearl Harbor Survivor.

No one will argue that the events on 9/11/01 necessitated new security measures, aspecially at airports. However, it seemed that the extra security was directed towards elderly people in wheelchairs, nuns in their habits, and senior citizens wearing too much sunscreen. Meanwhile, the porous Southern Border kept admitting people who don't wish us the best. There also seemed to be a leniency towards people who actually fit the profile of a terrorist, because the Authorities did not want to look as if they were "profiling" them. Political Correctness was trumping actual safety. The COVID madness breathed new life into the TSA's nonsense, and travel has become a worse nightmare than ever. Now that COVID is waning, what will be next? Monkeypox? (I don't even want to know what will be on the questionnaire for THAT!)

Today's Chapter has been used by preachers to illustrate the failure of Socialism, Fascism, Capitalism, and every othe 'ism out there, depending on the preacher's personal politics. First of all, it decries the 20% "Income Tax" of the grain. This was an emegency measure, taken up by Joseph, during the Seven Years of Plenty, in anticipation of the Famine. It was the right thing to do at the time, because God had given Egypt fair warning. When the Famine started, people had plenty of money, and bought back the grain as they needed it. But eventually, they ran out of money. So then they brought their livestock because they couldn't feed them anyway. Finally, as the Famine dragged on, they became indentured serfs in order to survive. Seven Years is a long time. Twenty One Years since 9/11/01 is even longer. I think it's time to defund the TSA and stop harassing Elderly Veterans, Widows, Handicapped People, and Nuns.


This was in a commentary about the chapters in Genesis about Joseph in Egypt. Some things never change.
32 posted on 09/20/2024 8:51:19 AM PDT by left that other site ("Providence" ain't just a city in Rhode Island.)
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To: bitt

They knew all this but the guy ALMOST succeded?


33 posted on 09/20/2024 10:05:37 AM PDT by SMARTY (In politics, stupidity is not a handicap. Napoleon Bonaparte I)
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To: bitt

So the guy made a bomb and all, and still never served serious time?


34 posted on 09/20/2024 10:24:13 AM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: PGR88

And has a contact in Iran.


35 posted on 09/20/2024 10:29:37 AM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: StAnDeliver; OldHarbor; dforest; desertsolitaire; bitt
***"For example, the barricaded gun situation, the driving without a license – was he purposely trying to do a cat and mouse game with law enforcement?"***

Cat and mouse game:

Routh has every indication of a CHS (Confidential Human Source) or equivalent. At a traffic stop, he 'barricaded' himself in a business because he needed to get to a phone and delay for time to contact his FBI (DoJ, CIA...) 'handler' to intervene and get him off the hook.

My guess is that he has crossed a red line by becoming a presidential candidate assassin. He was smiling and joking with his lawyer because he thinks that he will be set free on this one - like always. The only problem: he is blown now. Any serious operator checking his history would see this repeating pattern and suspect the reason.

We will see.

36 posted on 09/20/2024 12:51:51 PM PDT by Bob Ireland (The Democrap Party is the enemy of freedom.They use all the seductions and deceits of the Bolshevics)
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To: bitt

Yes many dots missing about Routh’s connections and where he obtained all that money to fly around the world.


37 posted on 09/20/2024 1:26:57 PM PDT by Vaduz
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To: LibertyOh

These sorts of people are professionally known as “Assets.”

These aren’t the little punk kids downtown getting sprung because of a lenient DA, these are curated, cultivated actors.


38 posted on 09/20/2024 2:37:59 PM PDT by HKMk23 (https://youtu.be/LTseTg48568)
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To: caddie
"Both Hawaii and Florida have habitual offender laws."

And pedocrat infested bureaucracies.

39 posted on 09/21/2024 9:35:56 AM PDT by matthew fuller (Bumper sticker: We the People are pissed.)
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To: Bob Ireland
Good post. The MSM had wiped it away by that Tuesday evening. 48 hours. You couldn't get the story to come up on Google or Bing search. Routh is going to go away and either be disposed of or placed in solitary for years and take care of the disposal himself. His handlers are using the MSM blackout to take up his loose ends.

But if we get a Church Committee II, I want his smug azz front and center spilling his guts under oath to a Committee with Article III domestic tribunal enforcement.

40 posted on 09/23/2024 4:34:46 PM PDT by StAnDeliver (TrumpII)
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