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Debunking the Worst Gun Control ‘Hot Takes’ After Second Trump Assassination Attempt

Donald Trump by all accounts survived another assassination attempt earlier this month when Secret Service agents engaged a rifle-wielding man lying in wait in bushes adjoining a hole at his private golf club in West Palm Beach, Florida, where the former president was playing.

As is so often the case after high-profile incidents involving the criminal misuse of firearms, a lot of gun control activists immediately took to the internet with their “hot takes,” declining to wait for correct information to come to light or to analyze whether their initial gut feelings had any relationship to reality.

And, as usual, many of these immediate hot takes really missed the mark. Here are three of the most common assertions erroneously made in the days following the second known attempt to assassinate Trump.

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Oops! Deep State Gets Caught?… DOJ Says Letter Written by Would-Be Assassin Ryan Routh Apologizing for Not Killing Trump and Offering Reward was WRITTEN MONTHS BEFORE ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION!?

On Monday, Joe Biden’s Department of Justice released a ten-page pre-trial memorandum in support of a pre-trial detention of would-be Trump assassin Ryan Wesley Routh.

Routh appeared in court later in the day on Monday. He was denied bail during his appearance.

Ryan Routh was captured after attempting to assassinate President Donald Trump on a Florida golf course on September 15th. This was the second assassination attempt on President Trump in two months.

It is not clear at this point how he knew that Trump would be playing a round of golf at that same course that Saturday. But the FBI said in their pre-trial report that Routh was stalking President Trump for two months before he attempted to assassinate the former president in September.

On Monday, the Biden regime released a ten-page document filed in the US Southern District of Florida in support of keeping the would-be assassin locked up until trial.

The Biden DOJ included photos of the would-be assassin’s gun and ammo.

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Failed Trump Assassin Had A List Of Everywhere Trump Would Be August To October

The deranged leftist who attempted to kill president Trump was in possession of a list of venues and events where the GOP nominee was going to appear, according to a detention filing.

Ryan Routh appeared in court Monday charged with two federal gun crimes: Possession of a firearm by a convicted felon and possession, and receipt of a firearm with an obliterated serial number.

DOJ prosecutors noted that Routh also conducted several reconnaissance trips to Trump’s West Palm Beach golf course and his Mar-a-Lago residence months before he was caught.

Routh’s apparent knowledge of intimate details of Trump’s schedule has led many to question where he got it from, with Rep. Eli Crane even suggesting there could be a mole within the Secret Service who is intent on seeing Trump killed.

It also emerged that Routh weirdly wrote a letter addressed “Dear world” outlining how he had tried to assassinate Trump, but had failed. Within the letter he offers $150,000 to anyone who can finish the job.

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Did the Biden-Harris DOJ Put a Bounty on Trump’s Head?

On Monday, the Department of Justice released a handwritten letter from Ryan Wesley Routh, the suspect in the attempted assassination of Donald Trump. The letter, written months before the attempt, was turned over to authorities by a witness who received it along with other items in a box several months prior.

And the son of Donald Trump, Donald Trump Jr., is blasting the Department of Justice for releasing the letter.

“This was an assassination attempt on Donald Trump,” the letter began, “but I am so sorry I failed you. I tried my best and gave it all the gumption I could muster.”

“It is up to you now to finish the job, and I will offer $150,000 to whomever can compete the job,” the letter continues. “Everyone across the globe from the younger to the oldest know that Trump is unfit to be anything, much less a U.S. president. U.S. presidents must at bare minimum embody the moral fabric that is America and be kind, caring and selfless and always stand for humanity.”

It certainly is curious why the Biden-Harris administration released this letter publicly, when, more often than not, the manifestos of killers are kept under wraps as much as possible. For example the manifesto of the Covenant School shooter has yet to be fully released, despite the fact that there is significant public interest in the transgender shooter’s motives. So far, only small portions of her writings have managed to be released or leaked.

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Prosecutors file alleged letter from Trump suspect: ‘This was an assassination attempt’

The suspect being investigated in the recent apparent assassination attempt of former President Trump wrote a letter detailing his plans months prior, prosecutors alleged in court documents filed Monday.

“Dear world, this was an assassination attempt on Donald Trump but I am so sorry I failed you. I tried my best and gave it all the gumption I could muster,” the alleged letter reads. 

Prosecutors said Ryan Routh, the 58-year-old suspect, put the letter inside a box and dropped it off with an unnamed witness “several months” before he pushed the muzzle of a rifle through the perimeter of Trump’s West Palm Beach golf course in Florida on Sept. 15. 

The witness only opened the box, which also contained ammunition and other letters, after learning of the incident.

The filing also revealed that Routh’s phone pinged cell towers near Trump’s golf course and Mar-a-Lago for nearly a month in the lead-up to the incident.  When searching Routh’s car, authorities also purportedly found a handwritten list of dates and venues where Trump had appeared or was expected to be present. 

The alleged letter went on to offer a $150,000 reward to “whomever can complete the job.” 

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How Democrats Are Grooming Assassins To Take Out Trump

There have been many calls for lowering the temperature between the first assassination attempt against Donald Trump on July 13, 2024, and the second on Sept. 15, 2024. Yet only two hours after last week’s attempt on Trump in Florida, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries lambasted “extreme MAGA Republicans,” saying “We must stop them,” leaving listeners to guess to whom he referred and how “they” should be stopped.

It’s part of a constant pattern since Trump emerged on the political scene, starting with assassination fantasies with “the resistance,” continuing through the Russian collusion hoax, and aided by protective agencies’ refusal to secure conservative figures.

It’s not just the typically aggressive political rhetoric. Leftists have openly engaged in direct assassination fantasies for years. A conspicuous movement to dehumanize one particular person in America has continuously expanded since early 2016, when “the resistance” formed. Madonna infamously proclaimed, “I have thought an awful lot about blowing up the White House,” signaling the cultural zeitgeist controllers would wage a no-holds-barred siege against Trump.

Kathy Griffin followed in kind, publicizing an image of herself holding Trump’s dripping severed head. Shortly afterward, nightly showings of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar in New York’s Central Park were capped by the assassination of an unmistakably Trumpian Caesar. Feelers for assassination were going out.

As of 2017, “the resistance” could claim, consequence-free, that Trump deserved anything he got, up to and including murder. The cultural left intended to not only marginalize Trump, but also to fully demonize and dehumanize him. The race was on to define Trump as the most dangerously destructive person in America. The sheer scale of the propaganda no doubt seized the imaginations of many with dreams of fame and glory. The seeds of assassination were thus widely sown.

The Russia collusion hoax, funded by Hillary Clinton and the Democratic National Committee and boosted by the CIA and FBI, consumed years of Americans’ attention, not to mention hundreds of millions of dollars. During its height, legacy media ceaselessly reiterated that Trump was a threat and no better than Adolf Hitler, further inspiring would-be assassins.

In 2022, after concluding Trump’s popularity meant Democrats could only defeat him outside the normal arenas of political debate and elections, President Biden made his famous red wall speech claiming “MAGA Republicans” were undermining democracy. All these elements placed America’s political discourse on simmer, directly encouraging potential assassins of Trump and “MAGA Republicans.” As John Solomon remarked last week, the elements worked together to “boil the water” of American politics into two assassination attempts on Trump in the past two months.

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Sen. Hawley Releases Whistleblower Report on First Trump Assassination Attempt

On Monday Sen. Josh Hawley, (R-Mo) released a whistleblower report regarding the attempted assassination of President Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania on July 13. The report is subtitled ‘Failures of The United States Secret Service in Connection with the Attempted Assassination of Former President Donald J. Trump’.

Most notably, the report detailed three revelations from whistleblowers which have not been reported prior to its publication on Monday.

“The lead agent responsible for the entire Butler visit, including the rally, failed a key examination during their federal law enforcement training to become a Secret Service agent,” the report said on page 2.

“Secret Service intelligence units—teams of Secret Service agents paired with state and local law enforcement to handle reports of suspicious persons—were absent from the Butler rally,” the report said on page 2.

“The hospital site where former President Trump received treatment after the shooting was poorly secured, and the hospital site agent could not answer basic questions about site security,” the report said on page 2.

The lack of federal transparency has caused investigations to turn toward whistleblowers.

“…sources with direct knowledge of Secret Service’s own internal investigation have alleged to Senator Hawley that the Department of Homeland Security is leaning on Secret Service not to comply with document requests from Congress. Instead, it has been left to courageous whistleblowers to tell the story of what really happened,” the report said on page 16.

The report began by summarizing the fateful day of July 13 followed by detailing federal agency behaviors indicative of elusion and obfuscation surrounding the attempted assassination.

“Following this catastrophic failure, the Secret Service, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) have all tried to evade real accountability. These agencies and their leaders have slow-walked congressional investigations, misled the American people, and shirked responsibility,” the report said on page 1.

The report went on to describe the response taken by Hawley to this federal inaction.

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Sen. Hawley: New Whistleblowers Say Secret Agents Usually Have Agent Stationed on Known High Risks Areas at the Golf Course, But During Trump’s Assassination Attempt NO ONE was There

Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) sounded the alarm over shocking new revelations from whistleblowers regarding the security breach that nearly resulted in the assassination of former President Donald Trump at his West Palm Beach golf club.

According to whistleblower reports received by Hawley’s office, the Secret Service failed to station agents at known vulnerable spots on the course—a violation of standard protocol that left the 45th president exposed during the attack.

The chilling details emerged during an interview Hawley conducted with Jesse Watters on Fox News.

The Senator expressed deep concern over the lapses, noting that agents who were typically positioned in high-risk areas were inexplicably absent the day Trump was targeted by 58-year-old Trump-hater Ryan Wesley Routh.

Routh was armed with a rifle and managed to breach the course’s perimeter before Secret Service agents took him down.

According to the federal criminal complaint filed last week, Routh began his sinister operation early Sunday morning. His cell phone data indicated he arrived at the golf course vicinity at approximately 1:59 a.m., positioning himself for nearly 12 hours before the assassination attempt.

Hawley revealed that the golf course Trump was playing on has long been monitored by the Secret Service, with agents typically stationed at specific locations known to be vulnerable. However, whistleblowers claim that during this incident, no agents were in place to secure these high-risk areas.

“That golf course the President was playing, the Secret Service has guarded that course many, many times,” said Hawley.

“What the whistleblower says is, protocol calls for the Secret Service to station agents along the places in the course that are known vulnerabilities. I want to emphasize, the service has guarded this course many times. They know where the vulnerabilities are.”

“They normally station agents there ahead of Trump’s appearance on the course, but they apparently did not do that this last weekend. The whistleblowers tell me that’s strange. That’s out of protocol. It’s not even clear the Secret Service swept the perimeter before Trump took to the course, which is also a breach of protocol. They want to know why, and so do I. I think the Secret Service deserves to give us answers.”

The shocking revelation comes just two months after Trump narrowly survived another assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania, where a Democrat donor, Thomas Crooks, almost succeeded in his plot to kill the former president.

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Rep. Matt Gaetz Says DHS Source Told Him There Are Five “Assassination Teams” Inside U.S. Targeting Trump

Congressman Matt Gaetz warns that a senior DHS official told him there are at least five “assassination teams” inside the United States targeting Donald Trump.

Gaetz made the comments after gunman Ryan Routh tried to kill the former president after hiding in the bushes for nearly 12 hours outside Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach.

Routh somehow knew where Trump would be to within 500 yards despite the round of golf not being on the former president’s schedule and the decision to play being last minute.

Florida Republican Rep. Gaetz told the Real America’s Voice podcast that even before the second assassination attempt, he was given some shocking news.

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DeSantis Says Feds Being Uncooperative With Investigation Into Second Assassination Attempt on Trump

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis said the feds are being uncooperative with the state’s investigation into the second Trump assassination attempt, including by blocking access to the golf course where it happened.

Gunman Ryan Routh hid for nearly 12 hours in the bushes without being spotted before finally being apprehended when a member of his protection detail saw a rifle poking out of foliage by the sixth hole.

The round of gold was not on Trump’s public schedule and was only a last minute decision, prompting questions as to how Routh, who got within 500 yards of Trump, knew the former president would be in that location.

Appearing on Fox News last night, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis was asked whether the feds were cooperating with his independent investigation into the attempted shooting and his answer was emphatic.

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