The would-be Trump assassin has been identified as Ryan Wesley Routh and he appears to be a leftwing lunatic who was apparently trying to defend democracy by trying to take out President Trump today.
Routh is said to be 58 and is originally from North Carolina, but currently lived in Hawaii as of 2022.
Here’s more from the New York Post:
The alleged gunman who authorities said targeted former President Trump while he golfed in Florida Sunday afternoon previously declared on social media that “Democracy is on the ballot” this year, and “we cannot lose” — echoing the anti-Trump rhetoric used by Vice President Kamala Harris and President Biden.
Law enforcement sources identified the suspect as Ryan Wesley Routh, 58.
Routh, who has a lengthy criminal record from North Carolina, frequently posted about politics and exclusively donated to Democratic candidates and causes dating back to 2019.
He also bashed Trump in an April 22 post on X in which he declared, “DEMOCRACY is on the ballot and we cannot lose.”
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.”
This is similar to language that Harris continues to use on the campaign trail. On Aug. 29, she said at a rally in Savannah, Ga., “We are fighting for our democracy.”
On July 31, she said at an event in Houston that “our fundamental freedoms are on the ballot and so is our democracy” — after using identical wording at a sorority event the same day.
Tom Fitton, president of the conservative legal group Judicial Watch, told The Post: “It is no coincidence that Routh repeated Kamala’s and Joe’s extremist rhetoric against Trump. At this point it is inexcusable incitement.”
Spokespeople for Biden and Harris did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
Following the Trump assassination attempt in July where the GOP nominee was wounded in the ear, he tweeted at Biden that he should visit the victims of the Pennsylvania rally where Thomas Matthew Crooks opened fire and attend the funeral of the 50-year-old volunteer firefighters who was killed.
“You should visit the victims in the hospital of the trump rally victims and attend the funeral of the fireman that died; Trump certainly never would. SHOW THE WORLD WHAT REAL LEADERS DO,” he posted on July 16.
He also tweeted at Trump in June 2020 that while he supported the Republican in 2016, he was left disappointed by his tenure in the Oval Office.
“I and the world hoped that president Trump would be different and better than the candidate, but we all were greatly disappointment and it seems you are getting worse and devolving; are you retarded; I will be glad when you gone,” he wrote.
Routh also recruited mercenaries for the Ukraine war back in 2022 and did an interview with Newsweek on the topic. The New York Times also did a profile of him as well:
This is the Trump Shooter from today… his name is Ryan Wesley Routh
• He just so happened to be filmed by Newsweek in 2022 about his effort to recruit mercenaries to fight in Ukraine.
• The New York Times wrote a profile on Ryan W. Routh back in 2023.
• Times put out a a new cover on 9/11 with Trump in a golf cart with the caption “In Trouble” —— Did they Know?
This is the Trump Shooter from today… his name is Ryan Wesley Routh
• He just so happened to be filmed by Newsweek in 2022 about his effort to recruit mercenaries to fight in Ukraine.
• The New York Times wrote a profile on Ryan W. Routh back in 2023.
• Times put out a a… pic.twitter.com/accMzZrDIt
— MJTruthUltra (@MJTruthUltra) September 15, 2024
Facebook has also already scrubbed his page:
The cover-up begins.
Facebook just scrubbed the page of Ryan Routh, Trump’s attempted assassin. pic.twitter.com/uhPvrZbuGr
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) September 15, 2024
