From nypost.com

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 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.

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“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.”

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.

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

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

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Follow the latest on the foiled assassination attempt on Donald Trump in Florida:

• Trump ‘safe and well’ after being targeted by would-be assassin with AK-47 assault rifle for second time in 2 months
• Shots fired near Trump live updates: Would-be shooter was 300-500 yards away, came with scope and GoPro — ‘Intent on filming’
• Trump assures he’s ‘SAFE AND WELL’ after Secret Service fires at man armed with assault rifle at president’s golf resort
• Trump’s security at golf course was lighter because he’s not sitting prez: official
• Demands mount for Trump to get same protection as Biden — after yet another assassination plot
• Would-be Trump assassin ID’d as Ryan Routh, 58, of Hawaii: sources

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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.

“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.

COME LORD JESUS!

Have you ever wondered why the people with ‘Trump Derangement Syndrome’ CANNOT explain to others WHY they have such hatred for Trump?

From westernjournal.com

So, it didn’t take long after a second assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump in just two months for the conspiracy theories to start hitting social media.

According to the New York Post, 58-year-old Ryan Routh, a Hawaii native, attempted to line up for a shot at the GOP presidential nominee Sunday afternoon at Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Florida.

The paper reported that the suspect “was able to get between 300 to 500 yards of Trump at a chain link fence on the edge of the course where he had an AK-47 and a GoPro camera set up to apparently film the planned shooting.”

The report adds: “Secret Service agent spotted and opened fire on Routh as he put his gun through the fence. The suspect fled the scene and was arrested on I-95 a short time later.”

It didn’t take long for conspiracy theories like these from liberal social media accounts — claiming that Routh was a Republican and implying this was all some kind of “false flag” operation — to begin popping up:

Now, we’ll go over what we know about Routh in a second and debunk those implications fairly easily. But don’t just believe the facts about this guy. Believe his son, who told the U.K. Daily Mail that his dad hates Donald Trump just like “every reasonable person does.”

Oran Routh, 35, apparently hadn’t heard about it when the Daily Mail contacted him.

“This was the first I heard about it,” he said, before asking, “Was my father shot or injured?”

As for the alleged target of his father’s ire and/or attempted gunfire: “I don’t like Trump either,” he added. But he insisted his father isn’t the violent type.

“He’s my dad and all he’s had is couple traffic tickets, as far as I know,” the younger Routh said. “That’s crazy. I know my dad and love my dad, but that’s nothing like him.”

“He’s not a violent person,” he added. “He’s a hard worker and a great dad. He’s a great dude, a nice guy and has worked his whole f***ing life.”

However, he did add that the two “had a falling out” and had “grown apart,” seeming unaware of what his father had done after moving back to Hawaii following a stint in Ukraine “to help volunteer and provide aid to those affected” by the Russian invasion, the Daily Mail reported.

Now, it’s unclear how much Oran Routh really knows about his dad — although saying that he hates Trump like “every reasonable person does” after apparently being informed his father tried to take Trump’s life doesn’t exactly speak to his objectivity, at the very least — but, just like social media accounts that tried to paint this as Republican-on-Republican violence, this isn’t the full story.

First, his criminal record, which is a bit more complicated than a “couple traffic tickets.”

“Records show Routh’s issues with the law go back to the 1990s and include lesser charges of writing bad checks,” CBS News reported.

“But in 2002 he was charged with possession of a weapon of mass destruction, a felony, according to North Carolina Department of Corrections records. In another incident, he was charged with misdemeanors, including a hit-and-run offense, resisting arrest, and a concealed weapons violation, the records show.”

Even as it regards those “traffic tickets,” underplaying hit-and-run incidents with that kind of language is a bit bizarre.

Also, as for the evidence that Routh was a former Trump supporter is based on his own words on X, formerly Twitter, which isn’t exactly a reliable barometer.

“@realDonaldTrump While you were my choice in 2106 [sic], I and the world hoped that president Trump would be different and better than the candidate, but we all were greatly disappointment and it seems you are getting worse and devolving,” he said in a post in June of 2020. “I will be glad when you gone.”

Furthermore, the Post reported that “Routh has a history of supporting progressive causes online and has made 19 donations to Democratic candidates since 2019.”

And, what’s more, he used the Democrats’ polite version of “Trump is literally a dictator” by echoing the phrase “DEMOCRACY is on the ballot and we cannot lose” in an April 22 post.

“We cannot afford to fail,” Routh wrote. “The world is counting on us to show the way.”

Where, pray tell, have we heard that before?

Oh. It’s almost like insinuating that your opponent is literally coming for democracy is an invitation for the unstable to literally come after him.

Odd, then, that nobody’s going to examine that rhetoric — again — after another assassination attempt gets memory-holed. It’s almost like they don’t care, precisely because they don’t.

Those who feel the need to even address it will either hide behind conspiracy theories or “whataboutism” involving Trump’s rhetoric being responsible for it, and then they’ll move along. If one of these unstable, tightly wound balls of political hatred finally succeeds at what they intend to do — and, God willing, they won’t — blood will be on the hands of everyone who enabled it through their abhorrent reaction. source

HOW CAN I BE SAVED?

MARANATHA!!

From gatewaypundit.com

Former President Donald Trump’s Sunday golf outing at his Trump International Golf Club was a last-minute decision, sources told CNN.​

This unscheduled appearance has ignited speculation and questions regarding a security incident that occurred at the club earlier that day.

Sources revealed that the golf outing was not on Trump’s public schedule, raising concerns about how an individual was seemingly able to time an incident during Trump’s presence at the club.

CNN reported:

Former President Donald Trump’s golf game on Sunday was a last-minute addition to his schedule, two sources familiar with the matter said.

Trump had no public events on his schedule for Sunday.

58-year-old Ryan Wesley Routh was identified as the would-be assassin.

Secret Service agents noticed the barrel of an AK-style rifle protruding from the bushes near where Trump was playing golf.

An agent fired at the suspect, who then fled the scene in a black Nissan SUV, leaving behind the rifle, backpacks, a scope, and a GoPro camera.

The suspect ran from the trees but was spotted by a witness who captured a photo of his black Nissan. The witness provided police with photos of the fleeing vehicle and its license plate number.

While authorities have not yet disclosed specific motives, a complicated portrait of Routh is beginning to emerge, revealing a history of support for Ukraine in its conflict with Russia, alongside a lengthy record of criminal and civil court issues.

Routh’s background is marred by significant legal troubles, with over 100 criminal charges filed against him in North Carolina, primarily in Guilford County. These charges include convictions for possessing a machine gun, carrying a concealed weapon, possession of stolen property, hit-and-run offenses, and possessing a weapon of mass destruction.