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Former Neighbor of Trump’s Would-Be Assassin Described Him as Being ‘a Little Cuckoo’

A former neighbor who knows the man who attempted to assassinate former President Donald Trump on Sunday described him as being “a little cuckoo.” 

Ryan Wesley Routh was known to bring fear into the neighborhood, according to a woman who lived near him in North Carolina for almost 20 years. She told FOX8 that she thought that he was odd and could not believe that he was involved with trying to kill Trump. 

“Him, I mean, trying to shoot Trump. That’s a lot. I would have never guessed, and I would have swore up and down, no, that’s not him,” she told the outlet. 

“… I just can’t believe it. I mean, if I didn’t see it with my own eyes, I mean the pictures and stuff and all, then I wouldn’t be able to believe that.”

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Explosive Device Reportedly Discovered Near Trump Rally in Uniondale, New York After Second Trump Assassination Attempt – Suspect in “Suspicious Occurrence” in Custody

Police have reportedly discovered an “explosive device” in a car near President Trump’s rally venue in Uniondale, New York tonight.

According to Nassau County Police Department sources, “During K9, doing their checks, they found an explosive device in one of the vehicles and that driver ended up running into the woods.” Another source from the department confirmed this, investigative reporter James Lalino told The Gateway Pundit.

Per James Lalino:

Sources in the Nassau County Police Department just told me that “the perimeter was breached and a blue barrel was removed” from the area surrounding tonight’s Trump rally site.

Source said “During K9, doing their checks, they found an explosive device in one of the vehicles and that driver ended up running into the woods. No one saw if he had anything on him, they just saw him take off running. A lot of cars are now parking, they’re lining up on Hempstead Turnpike, just parking on the grass. Even over at Eisenhower Park, they’re just parking over there.”

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The Second Trump Shooter Believed Exactly What the Establishment Media Wanted Him to Believe

On Sunday, for the second time this election cycle, a man was able to get close to Donald Trump with a rifle. The former president was golfing when Secret Service agents spotted a rifle barrel poking out of some bushes just off the course, near a hole Trump would soon play. Agents fired on the suspect, causing him to flee as Trump was rushed off the course. Shortly after, the man was apprehended by police.

A scoped rifle, two backpacks, and a video camera were recovered from the woods where the suspect was hiding. The FBI said it was investigating the incident as an attempted assassination. The suspect, Ryan Routh, has so far been charged with two gun-related crimes. 

While there are clearly some major differences between this incident and the first assassination attempt in July—when Trump was shot in the ear during a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania—the fact that an armed man was able to get so close to the former president and remain undetected until the last moment for the second time in two months is a big deal.

Yet the reaction from the political establishment and the establishment media has been notably different. Back in July, there was broad agreement within the establishment that they needed to “lower the temperature.” This week, the rhetoric has changed. While most go through the motion of denouncing political violence, establishment figures and outlets have downplayed the assassination attempt, obscured the attempted shooter’s political ideology, and even blamed Trump himself for provoking people into trying to kill him.

It’s not surprising that the political establishment and their friends in the media want to dismiss or play down what happened on Sunday. Because Ryan Routh, the suspect, appears to have been motivated by the exact narrative of the war in Ukraine and the prospect of a second Trump term that the establishment is trying so hard to get the American public to accept. 

In early 2022, after Russia invaded Ukraine, the American establishment went into overdrive to whitewash all the developments that had led to the invasion. They instead defined Vladamir Putin as an expansionist tyrant bent on conquering all of Europe simply because he hates freedom and democracy.

Because of unearthed social media posts, numerous interviews with major outlets like The New York Times, and a self-published book, we can clearly see that Routh was completely convinced by the establishment’s characterization of the war. So much so that in the months after the war broke out, Routh traveled to Ukraine to try and join the fight. He was turned away, apparently due to his age, but stuck around to try and recruit other foreigners to join Ukraine’s ranks.

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Seven questions about Ryan Routh, the second aspiring Trump assassin

Unless you live under a rock, you’ve probably heard about the recent incident involving another attempted assassination against President Trump. I’ve done quite a bit of research on the profile of charged suspect Ryan Routh, and I have some questions about the overall situation.

  1. Was Ryan Routh directed or encouraged to carry out an attack by any domestic or foreign governments?

Routh had countless contacts overseas in Eastern Europe and Asia. He was in constant contact with militants and aspiring warfighters in Ukraine, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran, and elsewhere. He spent quite a bit of time in Ukraine in 2022.

On the domestic front, it’s no secret that our politicized law enforcement and intelligence agencies have involved high-profile public figures in past ploys. We must also not forget that elements of U.S. intelligence services dedicated the entirety of the Trump presidency to attempting to destroy the man. Sadly, we can’t rule out the troublesome possibility that Routh (and perhaps Crooks before him) is the upgrade from information operation to kinetic operation.

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How Does Ukraine Try to Distance Itself From Suspected Trump Assassin?

Routh pointed an assault rifle at Donald Trump on his Florida golf course on September 15, in what became the second assassination attempt on the 45th US president since July.

It seems the Kiev regime is desperately trying to brush off Ukraine’s links to purported would-be Trump shooter Ryan Wesley Routh, following his claims (on X and in interviews) about his involvement in the Ukraine conflict.

First and foremost, Volodymyr Zelensky was quick to condemn the assassination attempt, claiming that he’s “glad to hear” that Trump is “safe and unharmed.”

Zelensky then went further by extending his “best wishes” to the 45th US president and his family and adding that “It’s good that the suspect was apprehended quickly.”

In the same vein, the International Legion of Ukraine, a unit with the Ukrainian Ground Forces, argued that it had no association with Routh.

“American citizen Ryan Routh has never served in the International Legion and has no relation to the unit. Rumors disseminated in certain media are not true,” the unit said in a statement.

The Guardian has meanwhile cited the legion as saying that Routh’s ideas about what he once called “a black and white” Ukraine conflict were “delusional.”

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Ukraine confirms contact with Trump shooter

The American man who allegedly tried to assassinate Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump had visited Kiev and offered his services to Ukraine, but was rejected, the Ukrainian military said on Monday.

Ryan Wesley Routh, 58, was arrested on Sunday after the US Secret Service spotted him at Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Florida. His social media posts and a self-published book claimed involvement with the Ukrainian military.

On Monday, the Ukrainian Land Forces Command confirmed to CNN that Routh had been in touch with them, but described his ideas as “delusional” and denied having accepted his services at any point.

“He was offering us large numbers of recruits from different countries but it was obvious to us his offers were not realistic,” Aleksandr Shaguri, a military spokesman, told CNN. “We didn’t even answer, there was nothing to answer to. He was never part of the Legion and didn’t cooperate with us in any way.”

Routh espoused multiple “delusional ideas,” Shaguri told the outlet.

In the summer of 2022, Routh visited Ukraine and gave multiple interviews to Western media outlets, presenting himself as a liaison to the government in Kiev and seeking to enlist pro-US fighters from Afghanistan for the Ukrainian cause. In one such interview, Routh told Newsweek Romania journalist Remus Cernea he was recruiting people for the International Legion of Ukraine.

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Trump Vows To End Ukraine War BEFORE Taking Office If elected

During an X Spaces discussion, Donald Trump again promised to end the war in Ukraine, noting that he intends to do it as president elect, before taking office.

Trump appeared on Spaces with cryptocurrency enthusiast Farokh Sarmad, marking his first interview since the second attempt on his life.

He stated, “I want to get Russia to settle up with Ukraine and stop this — millions of people being killed, far greater than the number you read about.”

Trump added, “But I want to get that done before I even take office, I want to get that done as president-elect, because it has to be solved — too many people dying, too many cities are just in rubble right now, you look at the cultures just being destroyed. We’ve got to get that done, and I’ll get it done.”

He further claimed that had Joe Biden not been voted into office, “There wouldn’t have been an October 7th, there wouldn’t have been Russia attacking Ukraine, there wouldn’t be inflation, all this inflation which has hurt people so badly.”

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Team Trump Blames Assassination Attempts on ‘Communist Left Rhetoric’ and Brings Receipts to Prove It

The Trump-Vance Campaign declared on Monday that left-wing hate speech was to blame for the second assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump’s life, and provided dozens of examples of the Democrats’ “increasingly incendiary rhetoric.”

On Sunday,  Ryan Wesley Routh, 58, a Biden-Harris supporter, Democrat donor and pro-Ukraine activist with an extensive criminal background, attempted to shoot Trump through a fence at his International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Florida.

After Trump’s Secret Service detail fired at Routh, he took off in a black Nissan, leaving his backpack, GoPro camera and AK-47 style rifle behind. He was quickly apprehended speeding away on I-95.

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis announced Sunday night that the State of Florida will be conducting its own investigation into this latest attempted assassination of Trump.

“I understand that the feds are involved but I do believe that there were multiple violations of state law,” he said during a press conference. “We also believe that there is a need to make sure that the truth about all this comes out in a way that’s credible.”

DeSantis added that a separate investigation was needed because the Biden regime has a perceived conflict of interest.

“I look at the federal government with all due respect to them—those same agencies are prosecuting Trump in that jurisdiction are now going to be investigating this? I just think that that may not be the best thing for this country,” he said.

Team Trump, meanwhile, appears to have developed its own theory as to the motive of the suspect.

“Make no mistake, this psycho was egged on by the rhetoric and lies that have flowed from Kamala Harris, Democrats, and their Fake News allies for years,” the Trump Campaign said in a press release, Monday.

On social media, Routh appeared to have been influenced by the Biden-Harris regime’s incessant messaging about Trump being a “threat to Democracy.”

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12 Actors and Journalists Who Compared Trump to Hitler, Called for Violence, Before Second Assassination Attempt

Ahead of the second assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump, many influential actors, journalists, and influencers warned that Trump is an “existential threat” to democracy, compared him to Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler, and suggested he or his supporters should face violent attacks. Some continued attacking Trump even after the first assassination attempt July 13.

The New Tolerance Campaign, a nonprofit watchdog aimed at confronting “intolerance double standards” practiced by “establishment institutions, civil rights groups, universities, and socially conscious brands,” compiled a list of extreme rhetoric against Trump that may have contributed to the second assassination attempt.

“New Tolerance Campaign research has shown two kinds of consistent and consistently charged rhetoric surrounding President Trump: insistence that his reelection would lead to the collapse of the country, and calls for the former president’s death,” Gregory T. Angelo, New Tolerance Campaign’s president, told The Daily Signal in a written statement Monday. (New Tolerance Campaign has taken to exposing extremism on the Left, to balance the impact of left-leaning groups like the Southern Poverty Law Center.)

“These proclamations aren’t sarcastic; they’re literal, and they’re being spoken by high-profile politicians and members of the mainstream media with massive audiences,” Angelo added. “It’s shocking that there have been two attempts on President Trump’s life, but not surprising given the existential hyperbole about him pounding Americans’ ears day in and day out.”

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Social Media Claims That Ukraine-Tied Trump Assassin Will Get ‘Epsteined’

Critics on social media speculated that Ryan Wesley Routh, the accused-attempted assassin behind the second threat to Donald Trump’s life, could face a fatal outcome in jail. Some even suggested on Monday he might end up being “Epsteined.”

The term refers to Jeffrey Epstein, the convicted sex offender whose controversial death left many questions unanswered, including the roles of powerful figures who visited his estates or may have assisted in his crimes.

These comments suggested that Routh might face a similar fate, possibly being silenced about mounting questions surrounding his finances and connections to others involved in the foiled assassination attempt on Trump.

“He’s in federal custody, unfortunately. Chances of being Epsteined just went up tremendously,” wrote independent journalist Nick Sortor to his 527,000 followers on X.

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