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Monday, September 16, 2024

Reckless rhetoric from Dems and media to blame for second Trump assassination attempt

 Donald Trump was targeted Sunday in a second apparent assassination attempt in as many months.

An eagle-eyed Secret Service agent reportedly spotted the barrel of a gun in bushes a few hundred yards from where the former president was playing golf and shot at the would-be assassin, who was later arrested.

It’s a frightening development that highlights the recklessness of the hateful rhetoric constantly aimed at Trump by his political opponents, even after he was shot at a rally in Pennsylvania in July.

Former President Donald Trump with Speaker Mike Johnson and his wife Kelly on the day he survived a second assassination attempt.X/SpeakerJohnson

Last week Kamala Harris falsely accused Trump of calling Nazis “fine people”, promising a “bloodbath,” and being responsible for “the worst attack on our democracy since the Civil War.”

She and Biden and surrogates constantly exaggerate the J6 Capitol riot and use it to frame Trump as a “threat to democracy.”

Joe Biden has labeled Trump and “MAGA Republicans” as “semi-fascists” and domestic terrorists.

Tim Walz called Trump a “fascist” and “threat to Democracy” who will “put people’s lives in danger.”

On Saturday Democratic Senator Chris Murphy described Trump as “a candidate explicitly running on the promise of political violence.”

Ryan Routh, 58, has been identified as the would-be Trump assassin.

In Orwellian fashion they accuse Trump and his supporters of stoking violence, when the evidence is almost all the other way.

Conveniently, whenever Democrats are feeling the heat on a damaging issue, there are always bomb threats or phony-looking racist leaflets to distract the media and get maximum publicity. 

In Springfield, Ohio, where Trump’s “They’re eating the pets” riff and a thousand memes focused attention on the plight of locals overwhelmed by a sudden 30 percent increase in their population due to thousands of Haitian migrants ushered in by “Border Tsar” Harris and Biden.

A gun and backpack found at the scene.

Having ignored the border crisis for three years, the media is now demonizing long-suffering Springfield citizens and portraying anyone who highlights their plight as a violent bigot.

CNN host Dana Bash even accused Trump’s running mate JD Vance on Sunday of “causing the hospitals, the schools, the government buildings to be evacuated because of bomb threats” in Springfield.

What will it take for these demented partisans to lower the temperature?

https://nypost.com/2024/09/15/opinion/reckless-rhetoric-from-dems-and-media-to-blame-for-second-trump-assassination-attempt/

Did shooter have inside info on Trump’s movements? Ex-FBI official calls possibility ‘scary’

 The alleged would-be assassin arrested for targeting Donald Trump while he golfed in Florida may have been given inside information about the former president’s schedule, according to an ex-FBI official who called the possibility “scary.”

Chris Swecker, a retired FBI assistant director, told Newsweek that the feds and other law enforcement will now be probing how the suspect, Ryan Wesley Routh, 58, allegedly appeared to know Trump would be at his golf club in West Palm Beach, Fla. on Sunday.

“The biggest question to answer is: ‘How did the would-be assassin know to be at that location at that time?'” said Swecker, who worked on FBI criminal investigations.

The feds and other law enforcement will likely now probe how the suspect, Ryan Wesley Routh, 58, allegedly appeared to know former President Trump would be at his golf club in West Palm Beach, Fla. on Sunday.

“There are only three possible answers: He guessed and got very lucky; he conducted surveillance on Trump and followed him to the golf course or he had inside information about Trump’s schedule.”

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He added: “The last answer is scary and has implications that another person was involved.”

Routh, of Hawaii, was nabbed after Secret Service agents stationed a few holes ahead of the 78-year-old former president noticed the muzzle of an AK-style rifle sticking through the shrubbery that lines the course on Sunday afternoon, authorities said.

The alleged gunman, who had the rifle and a GoPro camera allegedly set up to apparently film the planned shooting, was able to get between 300 to 500 yards away from the 45th president.

The FBI is leading the investigation and is working to determine any motive, authorities said.

Despite Trump having a stepped-up security footprint since the last assassination attempt against him in July, Palm Beach County Sheriff Ric Bradshaw said protection for him was still light because he isn’t a sitting president.

The entire golf course would have been lined with law enforcement if Trump was the current president, the sheriff said.

“I would imagine that the next time he comes to the golf course, there will probably be a little more people around the perimeter,” Bradshaw said.

Members of FBI are seen at the crime scene outside the Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Florida, on September 15, 2024.AFP via Getty Images
Routh, of Hawaii, was nabbed after Secret Service agents stationed a few holes ahead of the 78-year-old former president noticed the muzzle of an AK-style rifle sticking through the shrubbery that lines the course on Sunday.MEGA

“But the Secret Service did exactly what they should have done.”

Swecker, meanwhile, described the suspect as an apparent “wing nut” who hated authority after it emerged he had previously echoed anti-Trump rhetoric on social media and posted about threats to democracy.

“We know this suspect has posted about Trump being a danger to democracy and he has been active on some strange quests: visiting Ukraine to round up Afghan fighters so motive is coming into focus — he is a wing nut who dislikes authority, based on his arrest record for resisting arrest in a two-hour standoff,” Swecker said.

Routh has had repeated run-ins with the law over the years – including an-hours-long standoff with cops in 2002 in which he was convicted of carrying a “weapon of mass destruction,” online records show.

https://nypost.com/2024/09/16/us-news/authorities-will-probe-if-alleged-would-be-trump-assassin-had-informant-ex-fbi-official/