Trump Assassination Attempt: Suspect on FBI Radar Since 2019, had No Line of Sight
The agents didn’t scope out the property or perimeter because Trump golfing “was an off the record movement.”
We learned a few things from the FBI and acting Secret Service Director Ronald Rowe regarding the second assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump.
The FBI knew about Ryan Routh back in 2019.
Rowe said Routh never shot his gun and didn’t have Trump in his line of sight. He also confirmed the USSS is spread thin.
FBI
Special Agent in Charge Jeffrey B Veltri informed the media that the FBI received a tip about Routh in 2019 about being a felon in possession of a firearm.
“Following up on the tip, the alleged complainant was interviewed and … did not verify providing the initial information. The FBI passed that information to local law enforcement in Honolulu,” said Veltri.
Veltri didn’t expand on the case, though.
The FBI has started an extensive investigation:
“Our FBI agents then attempted to interview him, and he invoked his right to an attorney,” Veltri said.
Veltri said agents have obtained a video recording device, cellular devices, a vehicle, and other electronic devices located at previous known addresses while executing search warrants.
The FBI’s Honolulu and Charlotte field offices have initiated interviews of several family members and former colleagues of the suspect.
Veltri said the FBI’s Evidence Response Team is collecting and processing multiple evidentiary items, including an SKS rifle with a scope, the subject’s electronics, and ceramic tiles.
“We’re continuing to conduct analysis, and we’ll be compiling the subjects movements in the days and months leading up to September 15th, Veltri said.
Veltri said the suspect had an “active online presence” and the bureau is going through what he posted and any searches he conducted online.
Veltri said that the suspect had been charged and convicted in 2002 in North Carolina for possession of a weapon of mass destruction. Law enforcement checks also revealed that from 1997 to 2010 the suspect had “numerous felony charges for stolen good.”
Secret Service
Rowe confirmed that Routh did not shoot his gun and didn’t have Trump in his line of sight:
The suspect accused of trying to assassinate former President Trump as he was golfing in Florida didn’t fire any shots and didn’t have a line of sight on the former president, authorities said Monday.
A U.S. Secret Service agent was sweeping an area when they saw Ryan Wesley Routh, 58, armed with what he believed was a firearm and opened fire, acting Secret Service Director Ronald Rowe said during a news conference.
“The subject, who did not have line of sight to the former president, fled the scene,” Rowe said. “He did not fire or get off any shots at our agents.”
NEW: "The subject, who did not have line of sight to the former president, fled the scene. He did not fire or get off any shots at our agent," Acting Secret Service Director Ronald Rowe Jr. says on the apparent assassination attempt of Donald Trump. pic.twitter.com/WzJ65tBBhL
— NBC News (@NBCNews) September 16, 2024
Rowe also said agents didn’t scope out the perimeter of the golf course because Trump “wasn’t supposed to be there.”
USSS Ron Rowe: “This was an off the record movement. It wasn’t a site that was on his scheduled… It wasn’t a part of his schedule. So, there was no posting up of it because he wasn’t supposed to have gone there in the first place.”
🚨WOW! USSS Director said the area wasn't scoped out prior because "[Trump] wasn't supposed to be there"
USSS Ron Rowe: "This was an off the record movement. It wasn't a site that was on his scheduled… It wasn't a part of his schedule. So, there was no posting up of it because… pic.twitter.com/ACq2qWLGna
— Vince Tagliavia (@ReadyF4Any) September 16, 2024
Rowe praised the agents and local law enforcement while admitting the USSS is spread thin:
“The Secret Service operates under a paradox of zero failed missions, but also, that we have done more with less for decades,” he said. “We have immediate needs right now and we have great support.”
After the first attempt on Trump’s life in July during a Butler, Pennsylvania, campaign rally, Rowe ordered a shift, focusing on the Secret Service’s methodology.
He noted the agency needs more funding for new hires and additional training.
“You can’t just give me funding and say ‘Hey, we’re going to make sure that everybody gets overtime,’” said Rowe. “Because the men and women of the Secret Service right now, we are redlining them. And they are rising to this moment and they are meeting the challenges right now.”
He cited the past two months in which agents have helped secure the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, a visit by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Washington and West Palm Beach, Florida, and last week’s presidential debate between Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris.
“Our folks are rising to this moment but it requires all of us to be able to have good conversations and make sure that we’re getting the Secret Service where it needs to be,” Rowe said.
"The protective methodologies of the Secret Service were effective yesterday": Acting Secret Service Dir. Ronald Rowe goes through the timeline of events that led to the apprehension of Ryan Wesley Routh: https://t.co/r6JdzgI5hp pic.twitter.com/vZdsopTHt5
— NewsNation (@NewsNation) September 16, 2024
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No attempted assassination you notice
The guy was holed up for 3 hours with a MACHINE GUN , police couldn’t get him out, 20 years ago and got pretty much nothing
Hes a CiA asset or FBI
These fbi are clowns or conspirators
Has anyone seen any explanation why he didn’t do any time for this earlier crime? Illegal possession of a prohibited weapon under the National Firearms Act is not a 5-year sentence as many other federal gun laws are but a 10-year maximum sentence. People generally get 3-5, minimally. Very weird he didn’t particularly considering the circumstance of that incident.
That answer and one to the question of just what exactly North Carolina considers to be a ‘weapon of mass destruction’. In 2002 a WMD in NC? Not for nothing but the neocons had us invading and conquering Iraq in ’03 over claims of WMD…
There was no line of fire here. The attempted assassin never fired a shot. The incident in Butler, Pennsylvania is a whole different scenario. If you try to equate the two, you diminish the real threat in Butler.
Figures you would be exponetially obtuse. But why?
Ridiculous. What are you even talking about?
This is so obtuse. There was no ‘line of fire’ because Trump hadn’t reached the hole where the shooter was set up….yet. As soon as Trump made it to the green of the preceding hole, he would have been a sitting a duck and would have been a sitting duck until he got to to the green of the following hole, maybe even further.
Calling Jim Jordon
He’ll get to the bottom of this in 2029 and write a very stern letter!!!
Ace
“‘At this level he is at right now, he’s not the sitting president. If he was, we would have this entire golf course surrounded. But because he’s not, security is limited to the areas that the Secret Service deems possible,’ Bradshaw explained.”
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The man was almost assassinated just a few short weeks ago. Didn’t they think it would behoove them to bump up his security just a bit? Nah? Oh, okay…
Agree
China_is_Ahoe
September 16, 2024 7:05 pm
TWO attempts on PDJT in 60 days!!! These ruthless mongooses in the media treat it as another day that ends with “Y”. I am beyond angry at this point. I am convinced now that they will continue to saturate the space with even more vitriol until they have reduced even more machinations of evil to a soap opera… more crazies… more projection… to deflect from the blowback of their “eventual” success.
It’s too bad we never seem to be able to get to the bottom of things that EVERYONE not only deserves to know, but should know.
So many unprecedented things have occurred since 2020, and the truth is that we do not know the truth. Democracy dies in darkness. You cannot get more Orwellian than that!
goes further back than 2020…about 75 years ago.
Some of it may, but too many recent instances. It’s probably more accurate to say there was a difference nature courtesy of Obama.
Yep. Barky marks the line when the government was turned inside out and put to actual war against America. Since Barky, the dems have been about absolutely nothing but burning this nation to the ground.
As Michael Bane has said many times, if one chums for monsters one should not be surprised when monsters arrive. Individuals who compare Trump to Hitler or worse are chumming and it appears that they have gotten what they wanted.
I find it hard to understand how Trump can be seen as a threat to democracy given that Biden has attempted to go around the Supreme Court to achieve what he wants by executive actions and his VP and current candidate KH has said that if the legislature doesn’t pass the bills she wants in the first 100 days of her presidency, then she will use executive actions to get what she wants done. So much for democracy (not to mention she never won a primary election but rather was appointed by the powers that be.
KH is caught in a political purge orchestrated by someone.
This moron is the reincarnation of Janet Napolitano: “The system worked!!” … explaining about airplane passengers taking down the underwear bomber.
This Rowe character needs to be booted out and locked up for serious interrogation about what’s been going on over the time since he took over from the last inept traitor who ran the Secret Service.
And Mayorkas should be impeached tomorrow.
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