LOS ANGELES.–Former President Donald Trump’s, 78, second assassination suspect in nine weeks 58-year-old Ryan Wesley Routh laughed at his arraignment in Judge Ryon M. McCabe’s Southern District Court in West Palm Beach. Charged initially with possession of firearm by a convicted felon and obliterating serial numbers on the AR-7-type assault rifle with a long-range scope, both charges carry maximum penalties of 15 and 5 years with a $250,000 fine. Routh appeared in dark blue overalls, told Judge Ryon in a 10-minute hearing that that he earns $3,000 a month and owns no real estate or other valuables but has two trucks in Kaaawa, Hawaii, just 22.2 miles north of Honolulu. Ryon set a pretrial detention hearing for Monday, Sept. 23 and formal arraignment for Monday, Sept. 30 where Justice Department officials will charge Routh with attempted assassination of a U.S. president.
Martin County Sherriff officials confirmed that Routh’s cell phone data that Routh was lying in wait from 2 AM, Sunday, Sept. 15 to about 2 PM when the dropped his rifle and fled the scene in a black Nissan SUV when Secret Service began firing at his location in the shrubberies on the fringe of Trump’s West Palm Beach golf club. Secret Service agents saw Routh poke the barrel of his AR-15 –type assault rifle through the shrubberies when they opened fire, prompting Routh to flee the scene when he was arrested on the I-95 by Martin County Sheriffs without incident 45 miles north of West Palm Beach. Lying-in-wait for some 12 hours showed federal authorities that Routh was serious about taking a shot at Trump while he was on the 5th hole of Trump International. Federal prosecutors asked that Routh be held without bail due to his flight risk where he faces a formal arraignment in two weeks.
Secret Service of FBI busy interrogating Routh haven’t disclosed a possible motive but it’s clear, at the very least, he was influenced by the vitriolic rhetoric coming from Democrats and the press that Trump is trying to dismantle the U.S. Constitution, destroy democracy and rule on Day One as a dictator. When Trump faced his first assassination attempt July 13 in Butler, Pa., 23-year-old suspect Thomas Matthew Crooks was driven by a similar motive, believing Trump was a menace to U.S. society. Routh smiled and laughed with his public defender Kristy Militello after federal prosecutor Adam Craig McMichael requested that Routh be denied bail because he was a flight risk, but, more importantly, because the severity of the charges. When Routh is charged formally Sept. 30 at his arraignment, it will no doubt include attempted assassination of a U.S. president.
Democrats and the press can’t accept the fact that they’ve demonized Trump to the point that the lunatic fringe public believes that Trump is such a menace to society he must be taken out. President Joe Biden, 81, and 59-year-old Vice President Kamala Harris, have based their campaign on demonizing Trump as a threat to the U.S. Constitution, democracy and the rule of law. Democrats and the press accused Trump to trying to rule as a dictator if he wins the Nov. 5 presidential election. So, Democrats and the press mass hysteria about Trump has no caused two assassination attempts, all based on phony campaign rhetoric. Back in 2020, Democrats and the press accused Trump of worsening the Covid-19 global pandemic and promoting racism in America. Democrats and the press 2024 strategy against Trump is to demonize him as a dangerous threat to U.S. democracy.
When examining Routh’s voluminous Internet postings, it’s clear he’s all over the map, much like other garden variety lunatics that have no filter when it comes to venting their insanity on the Internet. Routh express irrational support for Ukraine, saying that the Pentagon should use former Afghan Taliban guerrillas to fight against Russia in Ukraine. How ironic that many Democrat and Republican Ukraine War fanatics actually agree with Routh, especially their zealotry in funding proxy war against the Kremlin. Routh never volunteered to serve in Ukraine but was rumored to have visited Kiev to promote his off-the-wall ideas. His Internet ranting about Trump sound like former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) often calling Trump a man-child, calling him a threat to democracy before-and-after the Jan. 6 Capitol riots that Pelosi and other Democrats blame on Trump.
Democrats and the corrupt U.S. press can’t stomach the fact that Routh is nothing but an artifact of the years of Trump demonizing, probably hitting a crescendo in the wake of the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol riots. Democrats led by Pelosi and House Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) accused Trump of planning and organizing the Jan. 6 Capitol riots. Pelosi, Schiff and other Democrat and Trump-hating Republicans have no proof, other than using the airwaves to demonize Trump. Now two assassination attempts later, they deny that their vitriolic rhetoric has pushed the lunatic fringe to try to assassinate trump. When it comes to Crooks and Routh, it’s pretty clear they’ve been brainwashed by the years of Democrat and press demonization of Trump, making him out as Public Enemy No. One. Routh is nothing more than a lunatic artifact of Democrat and Press brainwashing against Trump.
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John M. Curtis writes politically neutral commentary analyzing spin in national and global news. He’s editor of OnlineColumnist.com and author of Dodging The Bullet and Operation Charisma.
