▲ Pictured: Ronald Rowe Jr., acting director of the Secret Service, at the press conference following the foiled attack.Photo Ap
▲ Above these lines, the accused, Ryan Wesley Routh, a 58-year-old former construction worker, arrested.Martin County Photo
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The newspaper La Jornada
Tuesday, September 17, 2024, p. 24
West Palm Beach., Former President and Republican candidate Donald Trump yesterday accused the US President, Joe Biden, and the Vice President and Democratic rival to the White House, Kamala Harris, of using a rhetoric which motivated what according to the US Intelligence Agency (FBI) It appears to be an attempted murderthe second heading into the presidential election.
The suspect He believed Biden and Harris’ rhetoric, and acted accordinglythe tycoon told Fox News, and reiterated: His speech is getting me shot, when I am the one who is going to save the country and they are the ones destroying the nation..
As the Republican was playing on his Florida golf course, Secret Service agents tasked with his security saw the muzzle of an AK-style rifle in the bushes about 400 yards away. An agent fired, and the gunman dropped the rifle and fled in an SUV, leaving behind the firearm, two backpacks, a scope and a GoPro camera, Palm Beach County Sheriff Ric Bradshaw said.
Trump and his golfing buddy, Steve Witkoff, heard the sounds of the gunshot and the violent movements, and within seconds security agents they pounced on the candidate and They covered it up to protect him, Fox said. The system worked; this is not like what happened in ButlerBradshaw said, referring to the attempted assassination of Trump in July at a rally in Pennsylvania, where he was wounded in the ear, after which the Secret Service acknowledged errors in preventing the attack and beefed up the former president’s security. Now, at open-air rallies, he speaks from behind bulletproof glass, and when he plays golf, the course is partially closed off, with officers patrolling the area in off-road vehicles and bringing an armored car to guard him in case of threat.
The gunman, identified as Ryan Wesley Routh, a 58-year-old former construction worker, was later arrested. The Secret Service revealed yesterday that Routh camped outside the golf course – with food and a rifle – for almost 12 hours, between 1:59 and 1:31 p.m. the day before yesterday, until an agent spotted him and opened fire. The man did not fire a shot and never had Trump in his field of vision, the agency added.
The suspect was convicted yesterday of several felonies, including possession of stolen property in 2002 in North Carolina and possession of a firearm with the serial number obliterated. Routh appeared yesterday in federal court in West Palm Beach, handcuffed, wearing a blue prison jumpsuit and smiling as he spoke to his public defender.
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Biden reiterated yesterday during an event in Philadelphia: I have always condemned political violence. I always will.and stressed that the Secret Service needs more help and Congress should respond to that need. Thank God Donald Trump is okayhe added.
On the Internet, Routh left behind a trail of shifting political stances and intense anger at the state of the world. He acknowledged that he voted for Trump and accepted his share of the blame for “this little boy we elected as our president who turned out to be a brainless moron.”
They are free to assassinate Trumphe wrote addressing Iran in a self-published book in 2023 with the title Ukraine’s unwinnable warin which he calls the Republican leader silly and jester for the assault on the Capitol on January 6, 2021 and the tremendous mistake to abandon the nuclear deal with Tehran. In March 2023, Routh told a reporter that The New York Times who had a project to help kyiv: recruit former Afghan soldiers who fled the Taliban and send them to fight in Ukraine, the publication said.
He also travelled to Ukraine in 2022 after the Russian invasion. The AFP agency interviewed him by chance in kyiv, during a demonstration in solidarity with the Ukrainians. Putin is a terrorist, and he needs to be stopped, so we need people around the world to stop what they’re doing and come here and support the Ukrainians to end this war.he declared.
Attorney General Merrick Garland has vowed to deploy all available resources to investigate the new case.
Meanwhile, the Secret Service said it is aware of a post by billionaire Trump supporter Elon Musk on the X network about the lack of assassination attempts against Biden and Harris.
And no one is even trying to assassinate Biden/KamalaMusk wrote, ending the post with an emoji of a face with a raised eyebrow. He was quickly criticized by users, concerned that his words could incite violence against Biden and Harris. Musk deleted the post.