Critical link in radicalization uncovered of the failed Trump assassin

The suspect who tried to storm the White House Correspondents’ Dinner with a plan to assassinate President Donald Trump and a bunch of top administration officials was potentially motivated by anger about the war in Iran, according to the Department of Homeland Security.

A DHS intelligence report obtained by Reuters on Wednesday concluded that the ongoing conflict between the United States and Iran “may have contributed” to Cole Allen’s “decision to conduct the attack.” Posts on a social media account linked to Allen raged against the U.S. government’s actions in Iran and recently called for Trump to be impeached over the president’s warning that “a whole civilization will die.”

A DHS spokesman told Reuters that the intelligence report was created to “notify our partners of the latest available information following significant incidents that have impacts to homeland security.”

Allen wrote out some of his motivations in a manifesto that he shared with family members minutes before he attempted to charge into the ballroom at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, according to federal prosecutors. In a 1,000-word document, the suspected would-be assassin referred to Trump as a “pedophile, rapist, and traitor” and wrote that his goal was to murder Trump administration officials at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, targeting them from “highest-ranking to lowest.”

While Allen did not mention any frustrations about the Iran war in his manifesto, in a criticism of the security at the Washington Hilton, the suspect wrote, “If I was an Iranian agent, instead of an American citizen, I could have brought a damn Ma Deuce in here and no one would have noticed sh*t.” [A 'Ma Deuce' is a .50-caliber heavy machine gun used by many militaries. Doesn't Allen sound like totally cool and macho.]

In the manifesto, Allen condemned other U.S. military action, highlighting strikes on suspected drug runners in the Caribbean. Allen said the suspected drug runners were “fisherman executed without trial.”

In the manifesto, the suspect called himself the “Friendly Federal Assassin” and invoked his Christian faith, arguing that “Turning the other cheek when someone else is oppressed is not Christian behavior; it is complicity in the oppressor’s crimes.”

Minutes after President Trump arrived at the Washington Hilton for the White House Correspondents’ Dinner on April 25, Allen ran through a security checkpoint and fired one shot from his Mossberg 12-gauge pump-action shotgun that struck a Secret Service agent, according to the Justice Department. A Secret Service agent returned fire, and Allen was detained shortly after he got past the security checkpoint when he fell to the ground. Allen was not hit by any of the agent’s shots, and the agent who was shot by Allen was protected by a bulletproof vest.Allen was also carrying a fully-loaded Rock Island Armory 1911 .38 caliber pistol and multiple knives when he attacked, the Justice Department said. Allen was initially charged with attempting to assassinate the president of the United States, transportation of a firearm and ammunition in interstate commerce with intent to commit a felony, and discharge of a firearm during a crime of violence. On Tuesday, federal prosecutors added an additional charge of assault on a federal officer. U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro said Sunday that the Secret Service agent was “definitively” shot by Allen.

“He had every intention to kill him and anyone who got in his way on his way to killing the president of the United States,” Pirro said.

Earlier this week, the judge overseeing Allen’s case apologized to the suspect for the conditions he has faced in jail. Judge Zia Faruqui, who has a soft-on-crime record, grilled jail officials for placing Allen on a temporary suicide watch that required 24-hour isolation.

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A Foiled Assassination and the Poison of the Left

Let's not mince words: an assassination plot against President Donald Trump has been thwarted, and the details are as chilling as they are unsurprising. U.S. Attorney Judge Jeanine Pirro, a figure who has never shied from calling a spade a spade, confirmed that a woman traveling from New York to Washington, D.C., was apprehended for scheming to murder the former president. Pirro's words cut through the fog: the suspect "was working to have him eliminated." 

She now sits in custody, facing the full weight of the law, a weight Pirro assures us will be applied without mercy, as it should be.

This grotesque episode arrives mere days after President Trump and Pirro launched a muscular crackdown on the crime and anarchy festering in Washington, D.C., a city that, under the limp grip of Democrat rule, has descended into a dystopian caricature of itself. Their campaign to restore order is already bearing fruit, but this plot reveals a darker truth: the threats to America’s stability lurk not only in the streets but in the fevered minds of the ideologically possessed.

Let us be crystal clear about the roots of this outrage. This was no spontaneous act of madness. It is the rancid fruit of a decade-long campaign by the Left to demonize Donald Trump as the devil incarnate. For years, they have peddled a narrative of hysteria, painting him as a threat to the very fabric of civilization. They have called for him to be "removed by any means necessary,” “stopped," “locked up,” phrases dripping with menace, flung about with reckless abandon. 

And now, inevitably, someone has taken their venomous rhetoric to its logical, horrifying end. A woman, steeped in the Left's toxic brew of hatred, sought to "eliminate" the President who they've branded as the ultimate enemy.When Pirro declared that the suspect would be prosecuted "to the fullest extent of the law," you could hear the steel in her voice. 

This attempted assassination is a glaring vindication of Trump and Pirro's mission to tame the lawlessness that has gripped the capital. Washington, D.C., under Democrat stewardship, has become a petri dish for chaos: violent crime, looting, and assaults surging like a biblical plague. And now we see the true face of this disorder, not just petty thuggery, but a politically motivated, ideologically driven attempt at murder. This is not the stuff of a functioning republic; it is the playbook of a banana republic, where dissent is met with bullets.

Don't hold your breath for the mainstream leftist media to treat this with the gravity it demands. 

Had this been a plot against Joe Biden (who is almost dead anyway), the airwaves would be ablaze with sanctimonious outrage, the op-eds thundering, the talking heads weeping. But a plot against Trump? Expect a perfunctory mention, a shrug, perhaps a sly insinuation that he brought it upon himself. The rhetoric will sound like that of Hamas talking about how they are merely defending the "occupation" and are somehow the victims of Israel.

The silence from the Democrats will be deafening, because, let's face it, their complicity in this climate of hatred is absolute. They have fanned the flames, and now they dare not condemn the fire.

This is on them. One hundred percent. One might say they suck, but that would merely be an understatement. 

Donald Trump has endured a relentless onslaught, from a weaponized media, a politicized justice system, foreign adversaries, and now a would-be assassin. Yet he stands unbowed, a colossus of resilience, fighting not merely for his own survival but for the soul of a nation he refuses to see crumble. 

The Left may seethe, but Trump endures. And in that endurance lies a rebuke to their madness: a reminder that truth, not hatred, will have the last word.

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Trump Assassination Suspect’s Nutty Letter to Judge: Wants Death Penalty or Siberian Swap, Ditches Lawyers

The saga of Ryan Routh, the guy accused of trying to take out President Donald Trump on the President's golf course, just took a turn into Looney Tunes territory. In a letter to U.S. District Judge Aileen M. Cannon, Routh is serving up a wild cocktail of self-loathing, bizarre demands, and a side of "I’ll represent myself, thanks." 

Fox News’ Griff Jenkins dropped the latest on this clown show during Special Report, and let’s just say, it’s a doozy.

Routh, facing charges for the September 15 assassination attempt at Trump’s Florida golf course, decided to pen a missive that reads like a fever dream. He’s whining about why the death penalty isn’t an option, musing, "Why is the death penalty not allowed? At nearly 60, a life of nothingness without love, what is the point? Why is it not all or nothing?" Oh, and Routh has a backup plan: a prisoner swap with America’s enemies. 

Picture this idiot begging to be shipped off to freeze in Siberia for a Ukrainian soldier or traded to Hamas, Iran, or China for someone like Jimmy Lai. "I had wished for a prisoner swap with Hamas, Iran... or China for Jimmy Lai or one of the 40 others, or to freeze to death in Siberia in exchange for a Ukrainian soldier... so I could die being of some use and save all this court mess," he writes. 

Yeah, because that’s how geopolitics works.

He even throws in a sarcastic jab, suggesting Judge Cannon could hand him over to Trump’s least favorite regimes for a quick diplomatic win. "Perhaps you [Judge Cannon] have the power to trade me away... An easy diplomatic victory for Trump to give an American he hates to China, Iran, or North Korea... everyone wins." Sure, Routh, let’s just FedEx you to Kim Jong-un and call it a day.

Then there’s the legal drama. 

Routh is done with his court-appointed attorneys, blasting them as useless strangers who don’t get him. "It was ridiculous from the outset to consider a random stranger that knows nothing of who I am to speak for me... I will be representing myself moving forward," he declares. "They do not want the case and I no longer want to listen to how horrible a person I am — I can beat my own self up; I do not need help." 

The letter drips with despair, as Routh wallows in self-pity, apologizing to the judge for wasting everyone’s time. "Sorry to expend everyone’s time on one so insignificant and useless," he writes, adding, "I am so sorry, I know this makes your life harder." 

He even takes a philosophical detour, pondering, "On that topic of character, that my attorneys said we shall never tread, I am of the thought – what else is there if we do not have any character, morals, ethics, any substance at all, why live, why argue anything." Deep thoughts from the guy who allegedly camped out with an illegal SKS rifle near Trump International Golf Club, ready to kill our President.

Speaking of that plot, prosecutors say Routh set up a sniper’s nest in the pre-dawn hours of September 15, armed with a military-grade rifle, fake IDs, burner phones, and stolen plates. Secret Service agents spotted him before Trump got close, fired shots, and sent Routh scurrying, leaving his gear behind. He was nabbed later that day in Martin County, probably scratching his butt and wondering why his grand plan didn’t pan out.

This guy’s letter isn’t just a legal filing; it’s a cry for attention wrapped in a meltdown. He’s begging for execution, dreaming of Siberian exile, and firing his lawyers because he’s the only one who can properly hate himself. If this is Routh’s idea of a defense strategy, he might want to stick to binge-watching Law & Order instead. 

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Secret Service suspends 6 agents who failed at protecting President Trump last July

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The Secret Service is in hot water, and they’re not skating by easy on this one. Six agents tasked with keeping President Donald Trump safe during that wild July 2024 assassination attempt in Pennsylvania have been suspended with no pay, no benefits, nada. We’re talking 10 to 42 days of eating ramen and staring at the wall, according to Secret Service Deputy Director Matt Quinn, who spilled the beans to CBS News. “We weren’t going to fire [our] way out of this,” Quinn said, but they’re “laser focused on fixing the root cause of the problem.” 

They screwed up, and they know it.

Those agents are back on duty, but they’ve been demoted to glorified desk jockeys with "restricted roles" and less responsibility. Quinn called it a "federally mandated process," which sounds like bureaucratic speak for "we followed the rulebook, now let’s move on."

Let’s rewind to July 13, 2024, in Butler, Pennsylvania. A gunman, Thomas Crooks, somehow got the drop on the Secret Service, climbing onto a nearby roof and unloading toward Trump’s rally stage. 

Absolute chaos. Trump’s ear got grazed, two other guys were hit, and Corey Comperatore, a 50-year-old firefighter, dad, and husband, was killed. Absolutely heartbreaking. A Secret Service sniper took Crooks out, but the damage was done. Quinn didn’t mince words: “Secret Service is totally accountable for Butler,” he told CBS. “Butler was an operational failure and we are focused today on ensuring that it never happens again.” 

Thank you, Sergeant Obvious.

The agency’s been under a microscope since, and deservedly so. They’re scrambling to fix what Quinn called the "root cause" of this disaster, rolling out fancy new toys like military-grade drones and mobile command posts to tighten up comms with local cops. But the hits kept coming. 

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Weeks later, another assassination attempt on Trump went down in West Palm Beach, Florida. It got stopped, thank God, but the heat was too much for then-Director Kimberly Cheatle, who bailed after the backlash. Congressional hearings and investigations piled on, and a bipartisan House task force dropped a 180-page bombshell in December, calling Butler "preventable." They ripped into the Secret Service for leadership screw-ups and training gaps that "created an environment" where this kind of failure could happen. Oh, and they didn’t exactly play nice with local law enforcement either. Shocker.

Meanwhile, Corey Comperatore’s widow, Helen, sat down with Fox News’ Alexis McAdams to talk about her loss. That’s the human cost is something the Secret Service can’t just drone their way out of.

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The case against Routh, the 2nd assassin just got tighter

Known for his big-tooth smile and Democratic Party affiliation,
Ryan Routh mugs the camera

Ryan Routh, 58, is the man accused in the assassination attempt of former President Donald Trump at his golf course in Florida. 

Originally, it seemed like somewhat of a hard task to prove that Routh was planning to kill Trump, but it was discovered that he left behind a note that detailed his plans to carry out the assassination. He brilliantly kept a handwritten list of dates and venues where Trump was to appear, according to the Justice Department. But he failed to display a neon sign on the roof of the vehicle advertising the plan so he was able to get quite close to the 5th hold of the golf course and stick his weapon through the chainlink fence and wait for the former President to appear.

After the failed attempt, the charges against Routh had to do with the weapon "of mass destruction," but Trump complained that the current holding charges against him were too light.

Now, however, it looks like Routh is standing directly below the proverbial fan that gets hit with poo, as the coming charges of the assassination attempt are much more serious.

The new allegations about the note were included in a detention memo filed ahead of a hearing Monday at which federal prosecutors argued that Ryan Routh should remain locked up as a flight risk and a threat to public safety. 

U.S. Magistrate Ryon McCabe agreed, saying the “weight of the evidence against the defendant is strong” and ordered Routh to stay behind bars, in spite of the unspoken protests by the so called Squad.

The latest details were meant to bolster the Justice Department’s contention that the suspect had engaged in a premeditated plan to kill Trump, a plot officials say was thwarted by a Secret Service agent who spotted a rifle poking out of shrubbery on the West Palm Beach golf course where Trump was playing and then opened fire in Routh’s direction. Yeah, a handwritten note kind of eludes to that notion, but still, he didn't have a neon sign and this will be what the Left might argue.

The note describing would-be assassin's plans was placed in a box that he dropped off months earlier at the home of an unidentified person who did not open it until after last Sunday’s arrest, prosecutors said. The box also had ammunition, a metal pipe, building materials, phones, tools, and assorted letters.

The person who received the box and contacted law enforcement was not identified in the Justice Department’s detention memo and was described only as a “civilian witness.” Reps. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), Ilhan Omar (D-MN), and Alexandria Obviously-Commie (D-NY) can be immediately ruled out.

One note Routh left, addressed “Dear World,” appears to have been premised on the idea that the assassination attempt would be unsuccessful based upon his history of screwing things up beyond recognition, commonly referred to as a FUBAR, with the "F" being a slightly different word.

“This was an assassination attempt on Donald Trump but 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 complete the job,” the note said, according to prosecutors.

The letter offers “substantial evidence of his intent,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Mark Dispoto said in court Monday.

Ya think?

“That’s the message he wanted to send to the world in advance of this incident” he said.

Routh is currently charged with illegally possessing his gun in spite of multiple felony convictions, including two charges of possessing stolen goods in 2002 in North Carolina, and with possessing a firearm with an obliterated serial number. But Dispoto said in court Monday that prosecutors would pursue additional charges before a grand jury accusing him of having tried to “assassinate a major political candidate” — charges that would warrant life in prison in the event of a conviction.

With his winning smile and calm disposition, he will make a fine inmate in a federal prison--just don't drop the soap.

Kristy Militello, an assistant federal public defender representing Routh, asked during Monday’s hearing for Routh to be permitted to live with his sister in Greensboro, N.C., as the case moves forward. She argued that prosecutors had failed to show that he was a threat to the community and noted his track record of habitually showing up for court appearances throughout decades of legal troubles. However, she refused to take any responsibility if Routh somehow escapes or somehow kills Trump in his 2nd assassination attempt.

In addition to the note, prosecutors cited cellphone records indicating that Routh traveled to West Palm Beach from Greensboro in mid-August, and that he was close to Trump’s golf club and his Mar-a-Lago residence “on multiple days and times” between Aug. 18 and the day of the apparent attempted assassination.

He was arrested Sept. 15 after a Secret Service agent who was scoping the Trump International Golf Club for potential security threats saw a partially obscured man’s face, and the barrel of a semiautomatic rifle, aimed directly at him.

Lucky for Trump that Routh was wearing a pink shirt that stood out rather than camouflage that might have gone undetected by the agent who fired at Routh who then sped off before being stopped along a highway. He left behind a loaded rifle, camera, backpack and a reusable shopping bag to save the planet.

The FBI has previously said Routh had camped outside the golf course for 12 hours before his arrest. The Secret Service has said Routh did not fire any shots and never had Trump in his line of sight. 

Big deal. This was too close and should have never gotten this close to the former President.

The Justice Department also said Monday that authorities who searched his car found six cellphones, including one that showed a Google search of how to travel from Palm Beach County to Mexico.

How did Routh get a list of Trump's schedule for August through October?

Who is Routh really?

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Killery Clinton stirs up leftist lunatic anger against Trump

One of the Left's worst women

It's becoming abundantly clear that politicians on the Left would go to any lengths to stay in power, but who ever thought they would go so far as to set the stage for a former president, who is running for a second term, to be assassinated? It's un-American, it's evil, and it's disgusting.

Just one day after another failed assassination attempt on Donald Trump, the former twice-failed presidential candidate, former Democratic Senator from New York, and former first lady Hillary Clinton, said that President Trump posed "a danger to our country and the world."

How freaking ridiculous. How hyperbolic and dangerous are words like that which fall on the ears of the lunatics who crave fame and believe that Trump is a threat to democracy and the planet. And let's be very clear: Clinton knows it. She knows how provocative saying crazy s**t like that is to people who believe that killing Trump is the only moral thing to do.

And now it's okay to say that crap out loud?

Forget the failures of the Secret Service leadership. Forget that the leadership of the FBI is in the bag for the Democrats along with Homeland Security and the Department of Justice. This is incitement and it needs to stop!

Of course freedom of speech is guaranteed in the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, but incitement of violence isn't included in that freedom. 

In spite of this, all the legacy media, not including Fox News, has scores of people saying that it's Trump's fault that people have tried to assassinate him two times [thus far]. 

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Gov. DeSantis will be investigating 2nd assassination attempt on Trump internally

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) addressed the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump saying, "The people deserve the truth about the would-be assassin," possibly referring to both attempts on Trump's life since little is known about both Crooks and Routh, the two scumcrumpets who tried to kill the former president. 

DeSantis wants Routh to stay in the news because the legacy media will lose the story faster than a Harris cackle like they did with the first assassination attempt on Trump:

The State of Florida will be conducting its own investigation regarding the attempted assassination at Trump International Golf Club.

The people deserve the truth about the would be assassin and how he was able to get within 500 yards of the former president and current GOP…— Ron DeSantis (@GovRonDeSantis) September 16, 2024

This may require significant intervention. An assassination attempt on a former president is a federal crime, typically placing it under the jurisdiction of the FBI and Department of Justice, even when state laws are involved. The FBI quickly announced that they believe Routh aimed to assassinate Trump, establishing their authority over the case.

The FBI is already investigating the incident as an attempted assassination. The event occurred on Sunday afternoon at Trump International Golf Course in West Palm Beach. The Secret Service identified a man, Ryan Wesley Routh, armed with an AK-47-style rifle and hiding in the bushes approximately 300 to 400 yards from the president. When agents fired at him, the man fled, according to both local and federal authorities.

Routh ran to a nearby Nissan and was caught shortly after on I-95 as he entered Martin County, just north of Palm Beach County, according to law enforcement officials.

Governor DeSantis has assigned the two state law-enforcement agencies under his control to handle this case. The first is the Department of Law Enforcement, similar to what other states call a Bureau of Investigation. The second is the Highway Patrol, which caught Routh after pulling over his vehicle while he was trying to flee. The big question is how much help and teamwork the FDLE and FHP will get from the FBI and the Department of Justice (DoJ). Even without any political issues, the DoJ is known for not always working well with other law enforcement agencies when their jurisdictions overlap.

Even if the Department of Justice (DoJ) tries to ignore Florida on this matter, Governor DeSantis' announcement and investigation will keep pressure on Merrick Garland and Christopher Wray. DeSantis can make them respond by talking about what his own investigators discover, which will make the media cover the story. When was the last time we got an update on Crooks, his background, communications, and possible connections to others?

Meanwhile, we are still finding out more about Routh. Tanya Lukyanova from the Free Press remembers interviewing the alleged would-be assassin last year for Semafor's report on Americans traveling to Ukraine to fight. Lukyanova tells Oliver Wiseman that she thought Routh was "crazy," but mostly harmless — at least at that time.

Back then, “he was just a harmless loon, who didn’t do anything too crazy.” (Though not totally harmless: records indicate a long list of run-ins with the law in North Carolina, including a 2002 conviction for possessing a fully automatic machine gun.)

To Tanya, Ryan Routh didn't really seem like a hardened criminal. "He reminds me of Brad Pitt in Burn After Reading, to be honest," she said, mentioning the Cohen Brothers’ dark comedy. In the movie, Pitt's character is a clumsy, not-so-bright personal trainer who tries to blackmail a CIA analyst and gets caught up in a messy situation. "He's just a guy who gets too excited and buys into all sorts of wild ideas. Until he actually does something really bad, people don’t think of him as a real threat."

"Ryan Routh wasn't newsworthy until he allegedly showed up at Trump’s golf course with a gun."

But wait, kids, the 2002 conviction was just the tip of the iceberg.

In 2002, the police arrested a suspect who had a fully automatic machine gun, as reported by the Greensboro News & Record. This arrest matched records in North Carolina criminal court, which showed the suspect, named Ryan Routh, had been convicted for having a weapon of mass destruction.

The records also showed that Routh had been convicted before for carrying a hidden weapon, having stolen property, and being involved in a hit-and-run. In these previous cases, he also faced other charges like resisting an officer and driving with a suspended license. For these offenses, he typically received a suspended sentence along with parole or probation.

Overall, court records indicate that more than 100 criminal charges have been brought against Routh in North Carolina, mostly in Guilford County, which includes Greensboro. However, the specific outcomes of each case were not immediately clear.

In other words, Routh definitely wasn't harmless. This makes us wonder how he got an AK-47, or at least a rifle that looks like one, which is what some news reports are calling it. If Routh had a past conviction related to firearms, he shouldn't have been allowed to buy any kind of gun at all.

Routh's son Oran claims that his father never owned a gun, but admitted his father hates Trump:

He said his father hates Trump as 'every reasonable person does, and of course his shooter dad is reasonable in the son's mind.

‘I don't like Trump either,’ as the the apple of the shooter's eye said. He added that his father, a man who allegedly wanted to kill the Republican candidate, is not a violent man. It's the gun that's violent, I suppose. He added that he couldn't believe his father would try to kill the former president.

"He's my dad and all he's had is couple traffic tickets, as far as I know," the son ignorantly asserted. "That's crazy. I know my dad and love my dad, but that's nothing like him."

"I've never known him to own a gun or known him to do anything bats*** like this," the son added.

It's quite possible he doesn't know his father quite as well as he thinks. The Daily Mail reported that they have been somewhat estranged for a while, but the son apparently has no idea about his father's extensive track record with law enforcement.

More on the moron to follow.

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More on the second attempted Trump assassination

Backpacks filled with ceramic tiles 

On Sunday, former President and Republican presidential candidate, Donald Trump, survived a second assassination attempt while at his Palm Beach golf course. The wannabe assassin, Ryan Routh, was spotted aiming his weapon at the golf course and was fired upon by Secret Service. He successfully fled, leaving behind an AK-47-style rifle with scope, two backpacks, a GoPro camera, and he was later caught along I-95 by police and taken into custody.

[H/T RealClearPolitics]

Here's what we know so far:

As the Republican presidential nominee walked the course, Rouse hid in shrubbery just 300-500 yards away on the outer side of a chain-link fence. His rifle peeped out between two knapsacks that were filled with ceramic tiles, possibly used to stop incoming rounds from Trump's protection staff. When he was spotted, the Secret Service agent opened fire, as per Palm Beach County Sheriff Ric Bradshaw.

"With a rifle like that with a scope,” the sheriff said at a press conference, “that’s not a long distance.”

The FBI is investigating the incident as another assassination attempt, which will not last long in the legacy news media because, you know, Trump. “The FBI has responded to West Palm Beach Florida and is investigating what appears to be an attempted assassination of former President Trump,” the agency said in a statement.

The Secret Service agent fired four poorly aimed shots, but law enforcement was unsure if the individual fired his rifle as their lives flashed before their eyes and time stood still.

Meanwhile, Routh ran to a parked car along the road that had been left unchecked. A witness took photos of both Routh and the vehicle he fled in.

The incident took place around 1:30 p.m., according to law enforcement, and the Trump-Vance campaign announced the news shortly thereafter. “President Trump is safe following gunshots in his vicinity,” Trump spokesman Steven Cheung said in a statement. “No further details at this time.”

“There were gunshots in my vicinity, but before rumors start spiraling out of control, I wanted you to hear this first: I am safe and well,” Trump wrote in an email that was sent Sunday afternoon.

Secret Service sources tell RealClearPolitics that the two backpacks the gunman carried and attached to a chain link fence were filled with ceramic tile to shield the shooter from return fire. “Soft body armor like what we wear, and police wear, can only stop pistol rounds,” the source said. "In order to stop rifle rounds, which travel MUCH faster, you need rifle plates like the military wear or SWAT teams wear.”

“I believe that the suspect hanging two backpacks on the fence filled with ceramic tile was his attempt to provide himself a somewhat protected firing position,” the source added.

The golf course was partially shut down as Trump played through on Sunday. A Secret Service detail was with the former president and also a couple of holes ahead of him, according to Bradshaw, when an agent spotted a “rifle barrel sticking out of the fence.” The campaign had not made the Republican nominee’s schedule public after a West Coast swing that culminated in Las Vegas the night before, though Trump is known to frequent the golf course.

So how did Routh know that Trump would be there at that time?

“He is not the sitting president,” Bradshaw said at the press conference. “If he was, we would have this entire golf course surrounded.”

But while not the sitting president, the media describes him as America's Hitler and a danger to the nation. No wonder he has been twice a target for death, thus far. 

Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance said in a statement Sunday afternoon that he had spoken with Trump before the news was made public and that his running mate “was, amazingly, in good spirits.” The White House was also alerted of the attempt on Trump’s life. An administration spokesman said that both President Biden and Vice President Harris were briefed on the incident shortly after it occurred, but Biden had nothing to say.

“I have been briefed on reports of gunshots fired near former President Trump and his property in Florida,” Harris said in a statement posted to social media, “and I am glad he is safe. Violence has no place in America.”

So why does she continue describing Trump as a danger to the country?

When Trump and Harris shared a stage at the Philadelphia debate last week, the former president laid the blame for the first assassination attempt at the feet of Democrats.

“I probably took a bullet to the head because of the things that they say about me. They talk about democracy. I'm a threat to democracy. They're the threat to democracy,” Trump said, “with the fake Russia-Russia-Russia investigation that went nowhere.”

The hateful, anti-Trump/anti-Trump voters has got to stop, but this time for real. It should be considered a crime for any media outlet to purvey this kind of rhetoric about any political candidate because there are too many people out there who see assassination as a moral duty.

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The Secret Service secrets surface and boy are there secrets

What is slowly becoming more obvious is that the US Secret Service (USSS) isn't as competent as a small Pennsylvania PD with fewer than 20 cops after what we are seeing post-Trump assassination attempt. [Oh, by the way, Google has put Trump on the list of assassination attempts on US Presidents, but it took the public outcry to get them to do it. All you would get at first was Truman and a bunch of others, but not Trump.]

USSS's new Director keeps slowly leaking more details at the speed of molasses strained through a coffee filter. And the so called 'news' coverage is a joke. The details we get, however, seems to paint the Secret Service as a less innocent player in the event.

In their traditional "bury the news" strategy, Interim Secret Service Director Ronald Rowe, along with his bizarre buzzcut, held a late Friday news conference. He said "we accept full responsibility" but really took no responsibility and told us little of what the $3 billion agency did at Trump's rally to protect him and other high-value targets.

We learned, however, that the Secret Service had NO RADIO COMMUNICATION with local POLICE and NO RADIO COMMUNICATION with the ANTI-SNIPERS. The vital communications were made via texts over an overloaded cell phone network.

There were NO SECRET SERVICE recordings of communications but THERE ARE OF THE LOCAL POLICE.

The responsibilities of the local snipers was made up by the USSS and if it weren't for the locals, we would know much less.

The Secret Service COMMAND CENTER was NOT CO-LOCATED with the local POLICE.

The investigators have YET to talk to the local police who were assisting the USSS, including the snipers (after three weeks!)

Butler, PA was the VERY FIRST TIME that the USSS PROVIDED SNIPERS FOR a TRUMP rally this election cycle.

The normal complement of Secret Service intelligence officers had been pulled from the rally!

If this is not the definition of a clusterfrack [misspelled on purpose] I don't know what is. They weren't even attempting to work with local law enforcement.

At a news conference Friday, acting Secret Service director Ronald Rowe Jr. acknowledged that there were separate communications hubs that did not effectively share information in vital moments. “There might have been radio traffic that we missed. We have to be better on that,” he said.

No kidding, Sherlock.

Rowe repeatedly emphasized that the rally shooting was a failure by the Secret Service, not local law enforcement. “If the large majority of our partners are in a unified command post or in a different location, we need to probably be there, too,” Captain Obvious said.

“We’re certainly going to examine the communication aspect very closely,” Anthony Guglielmi, a spokesman for the Secret Service, said in response to questions from The New York Post.

At the time of the attempted assassination on the former President's life, Rowe was the deputy director in charge of ensuring that the protection resources and plans were in place to ensure this didn't happen. He was appointed to replace the execrable Kimberly Cheatle as the director by the indescribably corrupt Secretary of Homeland Security, who has been on an anti-Trump crusade for years.


It's not just the media who are memory-holing the assassination attempt, it is the Secret Service as well.

Let's not forget, the shooter was able to get off EIGHT SHOTS before they got him. Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. 

Bang.

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Biden's teleprompter in Oval Office address

Teleprompter Joe 

His eyes never left the words written for him on the teleprompter as our alleged President Joe Biden read the Oval Office address about the assassination attempt on former President Trump on Saturday. Unfortunately for Biden, he gave the address after his bedtime, just when "sundowner syndrome" kicks in and the brain becomes pudding-like.

Old Joe bumbled and mumbled his way through the reading, which may have been written by AI or Ron Klain, and had the sincerity of a prostitute who fakes a you-know-what.

At times Biden stumbled over his words, even referring to the "ballot box" as a ""battle box"." He even referred to Trump as "former Trump." The bullet graze must have definitely hurt as it hit his ear, but it didn't make him a former Trump, only the next President of the United States.

Nevertheless, Biden said that we all need to turn the dangerous rhetoric down, but he never added "including me," which would have gone a long way toward his being seen as sincere.

Overall, Biden's teleprompter was disgusting and tone-deaf because the words he read strayed off topic and brought up Gretchen Whitmer and January 6 as a way to deflect having any hand in the assassination attempt. No mention was written on the teleprompter that a gun was fired, a former President was hit by a bullet and an innocent man was killed. 

Equating what happened to Whitmer, where all charges were dropped, and January 6th, where the only person killed was Ashli Babbitt, who was killed by Capitol Police Lieutenant Michael Byrd, was ludicrous. 

The vegetable who read that we need to "lower the temperature," has been guilty, along with his fellow Democrats and media of raising concerns that Trump was Hitler, and a threat to democracy.

Hell, it was the duty of every red-blooded American to stop the threat, if you believe those leftists.

Joe Biden says he wants to “lower the temperature” in our country: pic.twitter.com/sVDzvlf9fm— Conservative War Machine (@WarMachineRR) July 15, 2024

Two days before Trump was shot, Biden labeled the former president a dictator. 

Two weeks before that, Biden said Trump was a "genuine threat to the nation" who would end democracy and take away people's freedoms. For him to now pretend to be above it all, demanding others lower the temperature is the height of hypocrisy. He should have spent his Oval Office address directly refuting his own rhetoric. Instead, he gaslit the public about his culpability.

“Let’s lower the temperature, Jack. C’mon. That’s number one. Number two, the idea that the fact of the matter is, anyway.” pic.twitter.com/TTUwLGnp70— Reverently Based 🇻🇦 (@node_cathode) July 15, 2024

Biden: “In a democracy, arguments are made in good faith.” In Biden's world and the world of the Left, arguments are made for personal gain.

Katie Pavlich reminded us when Biden called Donald Trump Hitler and needed to be stopped.

Is this what Biden and the entire Democratic Party was doing when they called Trump Hitler, a man who needed to be stopped “at all costs,” “eliminated,” and an “existential threat to Democracy.”— Katie Pavlich (@KatiePavlich) July 15, 2024

It should have been called the Awful Office Address because it was awful. To think that Biden and his cronies can lecture the American people about decency and lowering the temperature of the nation when it was him and Democrats who put a bullseye on President Trump's head. 

The combination of divine providence and crappy marksmanship helped avoid a horrible outcome.

WARNING: Do not believe what you hear about a Trump landslide in November. That leads to complacency and lower voter turnout. You must vote because they want us all to stay home.

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Biden called for Trump to be put 'in the bullseye'

Seconds before the shot

In March of 2010, Sarah Palin showed a map of 20 Congressional districts that she won with John McCain in 2008. The map marked each district with a set of crosshairs, not on a person. One such district was that of Democrat Gabby Giffords. Palin tweeted: "Don't Retreat, Instead--RELOAD." 

Days later Gabby Giffords was shot by a deranged man and the left-wing press blamed Palin for the violence. Thankfully, Giffords survived but Palin's political career didn't do so well.

On Monday, President Biden appeared on "Morning Joe" and instead of putting crosshairs on a map he made a statement that was significantly more direct: "It's time to put Trump in the bullseye," he mumbled. 

The left-wing press hasn't yet mentioned this nor do I expect they will.

Do I blame Biden for the assassination attempt on President Trump? Of course not, but if the shoe was on the other foot you can bet your bippy they would put the blame squarely on Trump's shoulders like they did to Palin.

After the assassination attempt Saturday, Barack Obama was the first to make a statement, rather than appropriately allowing our alleged President Biden to do so first. An hour passed before Biden made the statement:

"I have been briefed on the shooting at Donald Trump’s rally in Pennsylvania. I’m grateful to hear that he’s safe and doing well. I’m praying for him and his family and for all those who were at the rally, as we await further information. Jill and I are grateful to the Secret Service for getting him to safety. There’s no place for this kind of violence in America. We must unite as one nation to condemn it."

It isn't known whether Biden wrote this himself, had a staff member write it, or used AI. It was generic and smelled like a cow pasture. The statement also fell short of mentioning Biden's bullseye comment.

Kamala Hahaharris' statement seemed to be written by the same bot:

"I have been briefed on the shooting at former President Trump’s event in Pennsylvania. Doug and I are relieved that he is not seriously injured. We are praying for him, his family, and all those who have been injured and impacted by this senseless shooting. We are grateful to the United States Secret Service, first responders, and local authorities for their immediate action. Violence such as this has no place in our nation. We must all condemn this abhorrent act and do our part to ensure that it does not lead to more violence."

We now know the shooter is Swiss cheese. He was a 20-year-old who was registered as a Republican but who donated $15 to the progressive wing of the Democratic Party after Biden was sworn in as President.

According to reports, the shooter is dead, and one attendee was also reportedly killed in the shooting.

But make no mistake, this is what happens when the left and its media calls everyone they don't like on the right, Hitler, and claim they're a danger to the country, a danger to democracy, and just plain evil. Why would any schizophrenic or progressive not want to "save the world" from this evil?

I don't blame the media or even our empty suit President for what one man did, but they sure as hell didn't help matters. The Hitler comparisons need to stop immediately, but they won't. 

The only good thing that came out of this tragedy is that Trump will be President again. He will not become dictator for life, like the left tries to paint him. He already has a four-year track record and we saw that things got better until Biden came along and reversed everything Trump had done.

We saw President Trump after the bullet grazed his right ear, ducked but soon got up, surrounded by Secret Service personnel, and he raised a bloody fist then we read his lips: "Fight!" he said. "Fight!"

Trump has been fighting every day since he rode up the golden escalator and announced his running for President. I can imagine long lines of Trump voters patiently waiting their turn to cast their ballot for him. 

We need him now, more than ever. Biden needs to be fired.

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