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Vladimir Putin has awoken to one of the largest bombardments on Moscow and other parts of Russia after 30 months of bloodshed. Ukraine unleashed 144 drones, targeting three airports in the capital and lighting up residential buildings in the region of Moscow, during what the Kremlin called a ‘terrorist attack supported by the UK and US’. Debris from aircraft damaged at least two high-rise buildings in the Ramenskoye district in the early hours of Tuesday, setting several flats on fire. A 46-year-old woman was killed and three people were injured, governor Andrei Vorobyov said on Telegram. He added that 43...

Last September, Ryan Wesley Routh waited hours to take a shot at Donald Trump. The man, who reportedly conned his way through Ukraine, stayed with a GoPro and a scoped AK-style rifle for 12 hours at Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Florida. This attempt on Trump’s life came weeks after the shooting at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, where the president dodged a fatal headshot by millimeters. Routh waited in the shrubbery for Trump, and the president got within 300 yards until he was discovered by a Secret Service agent who opened fire, causing Routh to flee....

Federal prosecutors revealed that Ryan Routh, the accused would-be assassin of President Donald Trump, sought to obtain military-grade weapons – including a rocket launcher – from a Ukrainian contact as part of his alleged assassination plot. Routh told his associate to "send me a rpg [rocket-propelled grenade] or stinger, and I will see what we can do… [Trump] is not good for Ukraine," according to court documents obtained by Fox News. The pair discussed Routh's purchase options, with Routh inquiring if his associate could "ship it to me???" before explaining his intent for the military-grade weapons: "I need equipment so...

Ryan Wesley Routh sought to purchase a rocket launcher from Ukraine the month before he was arrested for allegedly attempting to assassination President Donald Trump. The alleged would-be assassin was corresponding on an encrypted messaging app with someone he believed to be a Ukrainian with access to military weapons, a Justice Department filing in the Southern District of Florida claims. It goes on to allege that Routh, 58, asked this associate to 'send me an rpg [rocket propelled grenade] or stinger and I will see what we can do…[Trump] is not good for Ukraine.' 'I need equipment so that Trump...

Prosecutors claim Routh, 58, was communicating through an encrypted app with someone he believed had access to military-grade weapons. In messages cited in the Southern District of Florida filing, Routh allegedly said, “Send me an rpg or stinger and I will see what we can do… [Trump] is not good for Ukraine.” “I need equipment so that Trump cannot get elected,” Routh reportedly added. The government says the exchange, which involved discussion of price and shipping for anti-aircraft weaponry, demonstrates Routh’s intent to kill Trump. He also allegedly sent an image of Trump’s campaign plane to the contact and wrote,...

The son of a man charged with trying to assassinate President Donald Trump on a Florida golf course had an outburst inside a North Carolina court, saying his arrest on a child porn charge was motivated by political persecution. Oran Routh appeared in court in Greensboro on Wednesday for a plea bargain hearing, FOX 8 reported. During the proceedings, Judge William Osteen asked Routh questions in multiple ways before accepting his guilty plea. Routh reportedly gave long-winded answers that didn’t directly address the questions. He was then ordered held until his sentencing. Prior to entering his plea, Routh was remanded...

President Trump ordered the Secret Service on Friday to provide him “every bit of information” about his two would-be assassins. “I’m entitled to know,” he told The Post. “I want to find out about the two assassins. . . . Why did the one guy have six cell phones and why did the other guy have [foreign] apps? “No more holding back because of Biden. . . . I’m entitled to know. And they held it back long enough.

Florida Republican Sen. Ashley Moody detailed on Thursday the obstruction she faced when she tried to investigate the second assassination attempt against now-President Donald Trump. Moody recently served as attorney general of Florida until she was appointed to take the Senate seat vacated by now-Secretary of State Marco Rubio. In her last office, she took up the mantle of investigating the second attempted Trump assassination, which took place one Sunday morning in September at Trump International Golf Club in Florida while the then-Republican presidential nominee was hitting the links. She detailed the absurd levels of resistance to her investigation mounted...

I highly recommend that you take the time to listen to the Tucker Carlson interview with Sean Davis, six months after the near-assassination of Donald Trump. The entire hour and a half is well worth your time, but at least watch the first 15 minutes. Half a year after Butler, there is still a thick blanket of secrecy surrounding Thomas Matthew Crooks. Who was he? What was his motivation? Was he a lone wolf, part of a group, or did he have help? Davis breaks this question into four options: Option 1: Butler was a “total SNAFU.” An amazing combination...

NEW: The Trump Cybertruck Bomber Matt Livelsberger was trying to recruit fighters for Ukraine, per his social media postsWOW.This comes after a photo of him surfaced wearing a “Glory to Ukraine”It’s also worth noting that Ryan Routh, who tried to take out Trump at his golf course in Florida last year, also worked to recruit soldiers for Ukraine.Additionally, Routh visited Fort Bragg, which Livelsberger and New Orleans attacker Jabbar served at, over 100 times.So many “coincidences.”

BREAKING - The suspects in yesterday’s attacks on Bourbon Street in New Orleans and Trump Tower in Las Vegas both served at Fort Bragg, the same military base Ryan Routh visited over 100 times before attempting to take Donald Trump’s life.

While some people may be able to remember the details surrounding President-Elect Donald Trump’s second assassination attempt, many are forgetting about a little girl that was critically injured in a car wreck caused by the would-be shooter. On September 15th, 2024, Ryan Routh led authorities on a chase on Florida’s I-95 after a Secret Service agent spotted him hiding in the bushes at Trump International Golf Club with an SKS-style rifle. The chase ended in a horrific crash, landing 6-year-old Mia Rosalie Monreal in a month-long coma after she suffered a severe brain injury. Monreal’s mother, Norka Pardo, told WPTV...

Ryan Routh previously requested delaying the trial until at least December of 2025.Florida Judge Aileen Cannon has delayed trial for Ryan Routh, the man suspected of attempting to assassinate President-elect Donald Trump, from February to September of 2025.In an order issued on Dec. 23, Cannon cited “substantial discovery” or the amount of evidence to review before trial.Her order sets up a series of pre-trial deadlines, leading to a two-week trial period beginning on Sept. 8.Routh, 58, has been charged with attempted assassination, along with other counts such as assaulting a Secret Service agent. He faced potential life imprisonment, the Department...

Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody on Wednesday announced the state has obtained an arrest warrant for attempted felony murder against Ryan Routh, who is already being held in federal custody on charges of attempting to assassinate Donald Trump. It’s a continuation of a back-and-forth between the Biden administration and Florida Republican leaders over the state’s role in investigating the September assassination attempt... Moody said the arrest warrant for attempted felony murder is not directly related to the Trump assassination attempt itself but because of a vehicle crash... that injured a 6-year-old girl, which motivated the state’s push to seek its...

In the wake of the second assassination attempt against Donald Trump that occurred on Sept. 15, a Secret Service agent who spotted the gunman and immediately fired at him was lauded for his quick reaction. “The agent’s hyper-vigilance and the detail’s swift action was textbook,” Secret Service Acting Director Ronald Rowe said at a press conference later that week. While Trump’s agent may have reacted swiftly, he may not have been the best aim. According to the House Task Force investigating the Trump assassination attempts, the agent was as close as five feet away from alleged gunman Ryan Routh, and...

Florida sued the Biden-Harris administration’s Department of Justice (DOJ) Wednesday for allegedly blocking the state’s investigation into the second Trump assassination attempt. Federal officials almost immediately began “taking steps to halt the state’s investigation” into Ryan Wesley Routh, who was indicted for attempting to assassinate former President Donald Trump at his Florida golf course in September, the lawsuit states. “Every day that Florida is prevented from investigating, the State’s case becomes harder to prove at trial,” the lawsuit states. “By contrast, the federal government suffers no injury from Florida investigating state law crimes, as the State has no intention of...

After Florida’s attorney general told the federal government in a letter last month that she was “surprised” by a move to sideline a state probe of the second suspected attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump, the Sunshine State has filed a lawsuit against U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland to “vindicate” its “sovereign interest” in separately investigating Ryan Routh as ordered by Gov. Ron DeSantis (R). The lawsuit, filed by AG Ashley Moody (R) in Fort Pierce but this time not assigned to U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon, claims that the feds are violating the Tenth Amendment of the Constitution...

Federal prosecutors requested an indefinite delay Wednesday in scheduling the trial for Ryan Routh, the suspect in the second assassination attempt on former President Trump, citing an enormous amount of evidence gathered since his arrest. In a filing on Wednesday, prosecutors asked Florida District Judge Aileen Cannon to officially designate Routh’s case as “complex.” Prosecutors revealed the scope of the investigation, which spanned multiple states, involved hundreds of interviews and included hundreds of digital media for review. “The government has worked diligently since September 15 to investigate the incident. Over the past two weeks, the United States has interviewed hundreds...

A prominent surrogate for Vice President Kamala Harris delivered a disturbing rhetoric against former President Donald Trump just two weeks after the second assassination attempt against him. Biden-Harris administration’s commerce secretary, Gina Raimondo, appeared on MSNBC to denounce “another lie” she claimed Trump has told about her boss. “Like, how did we get here?” she said. “Let’s extinguish him for good. We have an answer, we have a remarkably talented candidate” in Harris. Watch VIDEOS AT LINK................ However, Raimondo’s choice of words didn’t go down well with critics, who called her remarks the latest example of violent repudiation. “This is...

Prosecutors on Tuesday filed the charge of attempted assassination of a major presidential candidate against Ryan Wesley Routh, the man they say camped outside of Donald Trump’s West Palm Beach golf course for hours on end, armed with a rifle that he pointed through a chain-link fence with a clear shot to the next hole where the former president was headed on September 15. Routh, allegedly “stalked” Trump in Florida for more than a month, prosecutors told a federal magistrate judge on Monday, with cell phone data allegedly placing Routh at the golf course as well as Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence...