Alleged attempted Trump assassin's political rant revealed in prison letter



Ryan Wesley Routh, the 48-year-old Floridian charged with attempting to assassinate President-elect Donald Trump, revealed his political discontent in a letter addressed to a Politico reporter.

Routh was apprehended on September 16 after a Secret Service agent spotted the barrel of a rifle poking out of the bushes on golf course at the Trump International Golf Club at West Palm Beach, Florida. Routh was subsequently charged with attempting to kill the then-presidential candidate on September 26.

'I am unclear how we allowed ourselves to fall into just a two-party system, but it infuriates me.'

In the letter, which was written before the election, Routh called Trump a "dictator" and said we "must limit all Presidential power before Trump seizes our country" as well as "remove the power of our military by the President and place it with Congress before January."

Routh also ranted about the two-party system, claiming it is "designed to exclude most everyone" and forces voters to choose between "such flawed candidates."

“I am unclear how we allowed ourselves to fall into just a two-party system, but it infuriates me," Routh said in the letter.

“My entire life has been plagued by D’s and R’s," Routh continued. "It seems not long ago there was a push for the libertarian party and now a green party and maybe Truth party. But for some reason our leaders have not allowed any other party [to] be recognized in any race."

Routh's alleged assassination attempt came just two months after 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks fired shots at Trump in July during a rally in Butler County, Pennsylvania. In the letter, Routh likened himself to Crooks, saying they were both “ready to die for freedom and democracy.”

Routh rounded out his rantings with a closing message demanding peace.

“My fellowmen,” the alleged would-be assassin wrote, “please demand peace.”

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‘Preventable’ mistakes led to first Trump assassination attempt: House report



The House bipartisan task force investigating the assassination attempts against former President Donald Trump released a report Monday revealing "stunning" and "preventable" security failures that took place ahead of the July 13 rally in Butler County, Pennsylvania.

The report details the lack of coordination, communication, and planning at "several pivotal moments" between the U.S. Secret Service and local law enforcement prior to the rally, as well as the security risks that were overlooked. As a result, 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks was able to fire shots at the former president from an exposed rooftop positioned just 150 yards from the rally stage, killing an attendee and injuring two others.

'There were security failures on multiple fronts.'

"Put simply, the evidence obtained by the Task Force to date shows the tragic and shocking events of July 13 were preventable and should not have happened," the report reads.

The report reiterated the Secret Service's negligence leading up to the rally, confirming that there was no joint meeting between the federal, state, and local agencies to coordinate security the day of the event. The task force also found that the agency identified several security risks outside the perimeter but failed to actually secure them.

As a result of these failures, Crooks was spotted by multiple attendees, flagged as suspicious by Secret Service agents, and identified by a local counter-sniper over an hour before he fired shots at Trump.

"In the days leading up to the rally, it was not a single mistake that allowed Crooks to outmaneuver one of our country's most elite group of security professionals," Chairman Mike Kelly (R-Pa.) said in the report. "There were security failures on multiple fronts."

Then-Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle testified before Congress on July 22, less than two weeks after the assassination attempt in Butler, receiving bipartisan scrutiny from lawmakers. The day after her evasive testimony, Cheatle resigned from her post.

Just two months after the Butler rally shooting, Trump survived a second assassination attempt.

58-year-old Ryan Wesley Routh was apprehended on Sept. 24 after a Secret Service agent allegedly spotted his rifle and scope poking out of the bushes at the Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Florida. Routh was later charged with attempting to assassinate Trump.

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Idaho man Warren Jones Crazybull accused of threatening to assassinate Trump 9 times: 'I'm coming for you Trump'



An Idaho man has been charged with threatening to assassinate former President Donald Trump on at least nine occasions, according to a criminal complaint.

On July 31 — two weeks after a failed assassination attempt on Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania — 64-year-old Warren Jones Crazybull called the former president’s Mar-a-Lago resort home and threatened to kill him, according to a criminal complaint and affidavit that was reported by Forbes.

'I start driving to the home of this multi-person rapist PIG TRUMP to take him down single combat.'

“Find Trump … I am coming down to Bedminster tomorrow. I am going to down him personally and kill him,” Crazybull said on the phone call, according to the Department of Justice complaint.

Trump National Golf Club is located in Bedminster, New Jersey.

Crazybull, of Sandpoint, is accused of making at least nine phone calls to Trump's Florida home and threatening to assassinate him.

Crazybull also allegedly made “concerning” threats of violence toward Trump on Facebook using the alias “Tracy Jones,” according to court documents.

“I start driving to the home of this multi-person rapist PIG TRUMP to take him down single combat,” a Facebook post from July 31 allegedly read.

Another post reportedly read, “I’m coming for you Trump.”

Crazybull's social media posts also referenced Jeffrey Epstein, “John John Kennedy Jr.,” and a “shadow government,” according to the criminal complaint.

Secret Service agents tracked down the suspect in Montana by using T-Mobile phone data, the feds said.

When investigators interviewed Crazybull, an agent said in the affidavit that he appeared as if his thought processes were "racing" and "confused" and that he seemed "paranoid."

He allegedly told investigators that “he would not attempt to kill former President Trump” but also claimed he would "not let" Trump become president again.

Crazybull said he blamed Trump and former President John F. Kennedy for “broken treaties that resulted in the loss of his land,” according to the affidavit.

The suspect reportedly told investigators that he had previously been admitted for psychiatric care.

Crazybull was arrested Aug. 1 and indicted Aug. 20 in federal court in Idaho.

He pleaded not guilty to one count of making threats against a former president.

The maximum prison sentence for a count of making threats to a former president is five years.

A trial is scheduled for Oct. 28.

Crazybull's threats came shortly after Thomas Matthew Crooks shot Trump at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania, striking him in the ear and killing a bystander.

Earlier this month, Secret Service spotted a rifle poking out of the bushes at the edge of Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Florida. Secret Service fired at the suspect. Ryan Wesley Routh was arrested shortly after he apparently fled the area.

Routh was charged with single counts of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon and possession of a firearm with an obliterated serial number.

Blaze News investigative journalist Steve Baker told Jill Savage and Matthew Peterson of “Blaze News Tonight” that Routh has a lengthy rap sheet.

“Most curious, with all of these charges, 74 arrests, how much time did he spend incarcerated? None. Zero,” Baker said.

Trump campaign spokesperson Steven Cheung again blamed rhetoric spread by Vice President Kamala Harris and other Democrats for the threats.

“There have been two heinous assassination attempts on President Trump, and their violent rhetoric are directly to blame,” Cheung told NBC News.

“If the Democrats and Kamala Harris do not come out and apologize for their hateful rhetoric and tone down their attacks that have stoked the flames of violence, they are explicitly advocating for and inciting more bloodshed against President Trump,” Cheung declared.

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GOP rep says would-be Trump assassin had encrypted messaging accounts in 3 foreign countries, rips intelligence community



The gunman who nearly assassinated former President Donald Trump used encrypted messaging accounts on platforms in multiple foreign countries, according to a GOP representative appointed to a congressional task force investigating the assassination attempt.

Rep. Mike Waltz (R-Fla.) — a member of the Bipartisan House Task Force on the attempted assassination of Donald Trump — revealed the three countries linked to encrypted messaging accounts used by would-be Trump assassin Thomas Matthew Crooks.

'They need to be releasing information as they come across it, because this wasn’t an isolated incident.'

Last month, Waltz said, "Now, what we know, and this was on the briefing we just received, he had three encrypted overseas accounts the FBI is trying to get into."

"Well, we know that they were based in servers overseas," he added. "And so you've got to work over there with the FBI liaisons overseas to start getting into them through their authorities."

On Wednesday, Waltz informed reporters in Chicago: "We still haven’t learned a lot. We haven’t learned that much about those overseas accounts. We do know that they were in, if I get this correctly, Belgium, New Zealand, and Germany."

The House lawmaker asked, "Why does a 19-year-old kid, who is a health care aide, need encrypted platforms not even based in the United States, but based abroad, where most terrorist organizations know it is harder for our law enforcement to get into? That’s a question I’ve had since day one."

The FBI, Secret Service, and Department of Homeland Security Office of Inspector General are conducting their own investigations into the Trump assassination attempt.

Waltz — who is retired from the U.S. Army Special Forces and is a former White House and Pentagon adviser — slammed the FBI and Secret Service for apparently withholding information regarding their investigations into last month's Trump assassination attempt at the campaign rally held in Butler, Pennsylvania.

"They need to be releasing information as they come across it, because this wasn’t an isolated incident," Waltz declared. "The threats are continually Iran’s threats."

Waltz — who serves on the Intelligence, Armed Services, and Oversight Committees — referenced the alleged murder-for-hire plot to assassinate Trump and other U.S. officials involving a Pakistani national with suspected ties to the Iranian government.

Before the shooting, the National Security Council had reportedly warned the Secret Service and the Trump campaign that there were intelligence reports that Iran was actively plotting an assassination attempt on the former president.

Iran rejected accusations that it had ambitions to assassinate Trump.

Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani said Iran "strongly rejects any involvement in the recent armed attack on Trump or claims about Iran’s intention for such an action."

Kanaani continued, "The Islamic Republic of Iran is determined to pursue legal action against Trump for his direct role in the crime of assassinating Martyr General Qassem Soleimani."

Soleimani was the commander of the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ Quds Force and killed in a U.S. drone attack in Baghdad in January 2020.

The FBI reportedly was scheduled to brief the 13 members of the House task force on Wednesday. Waltz said he hopes the FBI will provide insight into the "ridiculously flawed" security detail at the Trump rally on July 13, 2024.

Crooks accessed a roof just 130 yards from the stage where Trump delivered his campaign speech. The shooter was able to fire eight shots — including one that struck Trump in his right ear — before being neutralized. Crooks shot and killed 50-year-old Trump supporter and firefighter Corey Comperatore. Two other rallygoers — 54-year-old James Copenhaver and 57-year-old David Dutch — were injured during the shooting.

Blaze News reached out to the FBI and Secret Service for comment but did not receive a response in time for publication.

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Body of Trump's would-be assassin is 'gone,' congressman reveals FBI's 'unheard of' act in investigation 'obstruction'



A congressman released a preliminary investigative report on the assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump this week, in which he declared the body of the would-be assassin is "gone." The congressman also revealed an "unheard of" act committed by the FBI that he deemed an "obstruction to any following investigative effort."

Rep. Clay Higgins (R-La.) — a member of the House Bipartisan Task Force on the Attempted Assassination of Donald J. Trump — released his preliminary investigative report, in which he noted some of the eye-opening revelations that he had uncovered during his "boots on the ground" fact-finding trip to Butler, Pennsylvania, August 4-6.

'The FBI cleaned up biological evidence from the crime scene, which is unheard of. Cops don’t do that, ever.'

Higgins confirmed that the shooter — Thomas Matthew Crooks — fired eight shots from the rooftop of the American Glass Research building during the Trump rally on July 13. Crooks was approximately 150 yards from the stage where Trump was delivering his campaign speech.

Higgins noted that the location of the shooter "provided excellent concealment" from the northern counter-sniper team due to trees. However, the congressman noted that Crooks' location "did NOT offer excellent concealment from the southern counter-sniper team." Higgins added that the "would-be assassin perfectly positioned himself to minimize the threat of counter-fire" from the ground or the Secret Service counter-sniper teams.

After Crooks fired eight shots toward the former president, a "badass" Butler SWAT operator returned fire from the ground about 100 yards away from the AGR building. The SWAT operator hit Crooks’ "rifle stock and fragged his face/neck/right shoulder area from the stock breaking up."

The reported final shot that killed Crooks was fired by the U.S. Secret Service southern counter-sniper team. The purported kill shot entered the left side of the shooter's mouth area and exited the right ear area.

Higgins claimed that the FBI scrubbed the crime scene of biological evidence before he could investigate the area.

"The FBI cleaned up biological evidence from the crime scene, which is unheard of. Cops don’t do that, ever," Higgins wrote in his report.

Higgins said he encountered another obstacle in his investigation into the Trump assassination attempt when he discovered the body of the shooter was "gone."

"My effort to examine Crooks’ body on Monday, August 5, caused quite a stir and revealed a disturbing fact. … The FBI released the body for cremation 10 days after J13," the congressman stated.

By July 23, "Crooks was gone," he said.

"Nobody knew this until Monday, August 5, including the County Coroner, law enforcement, Sheriff, etc.," Higgins continued. "Yes, Butler County Coroner technically had legal authority over the body, but I spoke with the coroner, and he would have never released Crooks’ body to the family for cremation or burial without specific permission from the FBI."

"Again, similar to releasing the crime scene and scrubbing crime scene biological evidence ... this action by the FBI can only be described by any reasonable man as an obstruction to any following investigative effort," Higgins declared.

Higgins noted, "The problem with me not being able to examine the actual body is that I won’t know 100% if the coroner’s report and the autopsy report are accurate. We will actually never know. Yes, we’ll get the reports and pictures, etc, but I will not ever be able to say with certainty that those reports and pictures are accurate according to my own examination of the body."

The Republican lawmaker also said that the coroner’s report and autopsy report were both a "week late" as of Aug. 5.

A spokesperson with the FBI told WTAE-TV that the agency was "surprised" and "disturbed" regarding the allegations of investigation obstruction. The agency also said it was unaware that Congress wanted to hold the body for its own investigation.

The spokesperson said the cleanup of biological evidence from the crime scene and the release of the shooter's body were all conducted according to FBI procedures. The spokesperson said the gunman's body was released to the family after a "detailed, coordinated effort with the coroner's office."

Higgins also questioned why the Secret Service did not retrieve radios that had been set aside for them by Butler County tactical command.

"The radio comms were properly and perfectly arranged during the extensive pre-mission planning," Higgins stated. "On J12, the Butler County ESU Commander personally reminded the USSS counter-sniper teams to pick up their assigned radios at the ESU Command Post RV, which was positioned according to planning at the Butler Fairgrounds, the following morning before 1100 hrs. It didn’t happen."

Anthony Guglielmi — chief of communications for the U.S. Secret Service — said to WTAE-TV about the accusations made by the congressman:

Inter-agency communications on July 13 will be examined during the U.S. Secret Service’s ongoing mission assurance review. The U.S. Secret Service is committed to investigating the decisions and actions of personnel related to the event in Butler, Pennsylvania, and the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump. The U.S. Secret Service’s mission assurance review is progressing, and we are examining the processes, procedures, and factors that led to this operational failure. Any identified and substantiated violations of policy committed by our personnel will be investigated by the Office of Professional Responsibility for disciplinary action. The U.S. Secret Service is committed to holding our personnel accountable to the highest professional standards.

Higgins commended the Butler County tactical team’s commander and the head investigator for the Butler County DA’s office.

"Those gentlemen had nothing to hide, and they were 100% accommodating despite my rather intense demands on their time and resources due to the compressed schedule I was working with," Higgins said.

Higgins added that local law enforcement's performance during the assassination attempt was "very professionally deployed and commanded."

Higgins said he would release a "much more comprehensive" report on the assassination attempt in a few weeks.

"As I have said, every question will be answered, every theory explored, and every doubt erased. The American people deserve the full truth on the attempted assassination of President Trump," Higgins proclaimed. "Our investigative efforts are moving forward in good faith. The release of my preliminary investigative report is reflective of my desire to deliver transparency and reassurance to the American people."

The House task force investigating the assassination attempt against former President Trump will issue a final report before Dec. 13.

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Top 10 questions Americans should be asking about the Trump near-assassination



It’s been one month since former President Donald Trump was nearly assassinated at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.

“And yet, what do we know about this attempt to murder the former president of the United States?” asks Liz Wheeler. “We don't know much.”

Therefore, “we are going to catalog the 10 questions that you and I, as American citizens, must demand that our government, which is supposed to represent us, answer,” she says, noting that the mainstream media is “not only incurious” as to what actually happened on July 13 but has also effectively “[buried] this story.”

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1. What ideology motivated Crooks?

“What was Thomas Crooks’ ideology” and “what was known about [him] before the shooting?”

“There is no way that there is not a digital trail of the ideology of Thomas Crooks,” says Liz, pointing out that as a member of Gen Z, Crooks must have some kind of “digital footprint.”

“It's being hidden from us. Why?” she asks. “We must find out the answer to that question.”

2. Why no counter drones?

“Thomas Crooks flew a drone over the Butler County rally area some hours before Donald Trump took the stage,” which should have been picked up by the Secret Service's counter drones that are designed to “identify if there are hostile drones.”

Suspiciously, “on this day, July 13, 2024, the U.S. Secret Service counter drones weren't working.”

“Why did these U.S. Secret Service counter drones not work? Who was in charge of them? Was it a mechanical issue? Was it a communication issue? And most importantly, was it unusual for the U.S. Secret Service countersurveillance drones not to be working?”

3. Why wasn’t Trump removed from the stage?

“At three and a half minutes prior to the shooting, Thomas Crooks was seen on the roof; at 30 seconds prior to the shooting, Secret Service knew he was armed and lying on the roof.”

“Who then made the call … not to remove Donald Trump from the stage at that point, when law enforcement was aware of an armed, credible, and accessible threat? ... Who allowed him to stay on stage?”

4. Why wasn’t Crooks neutralized sooner?

“18 minutes before Trump took the stage, Secret Service knew that Thomas Crooks had a range finder. Why was he not neutralized at that point? Why was he not confronted? Why was he not arrested?”

“Why did it take until he had fired those shots for him to be addressed? Who was in charge of that decision?”

5. Why did the three snipers assigned to watch the roof abandon post?

There were three snipers assigned to the window that overlooked the sloped roof that former Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle maintained was too dangerous for her agents to stand on.

However, “all three of those snipers abandoned their post moments before the shooting.”

“Why? Where did they go? Who gave them the direction to leave?”

6. Was Crooks groomed by the feds?

“Are we willing to consider that the feds may have groomed Thomas Crooks into an attempted assassination of President Donald J. Trump?”

Liz contends that this question is absolutely necessary “because if we look at the history of our country, we know that our government has abused citizens in the past” and “targeted politicians that the Deep State dislikes.”

She cites the following examples: the CIA’s involvement in the assassination of President John. F. Kennedy, the FBI “fomenting the riots outside of the capital on January 6,” and the FBI grooming “ne'er-do-wells and homeless people” into staging the kidnapping of Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer.

“If we are unwilling to even investigate whether this happened, if we come at this analysis with preconceived notions or preconceived conclusions that no, the government couldn't have been involved in any way, then we are no better than the mainstream media,” she says.

7. Why was the Trump campaign denied additional SS coverage?

“Why did the Secret Service lie about denying resources to the Trump campaign when the Trump campaign requested additional security? What was the justification for the denial of those requests, and who made that call?"

8. Does our government even care to know the truth?

Liz’s eighth question is specifically for “the elected representatives of the United States of America … both Democrat and Republican.”

“Do you care that the former president of the United States was targeted for assassination? Do you care that this could happen again? Do you care what the implications of this would have been had Donald Trump not turned his head at the last second to look at that chart?”

“Do you understand that this would have thrown our country into a civil war?”

9. Have any additional threats been identified?

“Are there any more known threats trying to gain access to President Trump or to his family? If so, what's being done to protect them so that what happened on July 13 does not happen again?”

10. Why is Ronald Rowe the one leading the investigation?

“The formal investigation … is being headed by the acting director of the Secret Service” – Ronald Rowe – who also happens to be “the former deputy director of the Secret Service.”

“He was involved in decisions leading up to the July 13 attempted assassination of Donald Trump. The failure to protect Donald Trump is as much his responsibility as Kimberly Cheatle’s, and yet now he's the one supposedly conducting oversight and investigating what happened?” says Liz, adding that this “disgusts” her.

“Donald Trump was almost killed on stage at a rally because leftists have spent the last eight years calling him Hitler and a dictator and authoritarian and telling LGBTQIA-identifying people and black people and women that they are on the verge of genocide, that our democracy is under attack, and that Donald Trump is the reason why,” says Liz, adding that “this hatred and fear has been fomented to the point that someone is willing to murder president Trump rather than letting an election take place.”

We need answers. Now.

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WAKE UP! Did the FBI Claim Trump Shooter Was...A Far-Right Terrorist?

WAKE UP! Did the FBI Claim Trump Shooter Was...A Far-Right Terrorist?

WAKE UP! Did the FBI claim the Trump shooter was ... a far-right terrorist?



In a follow-up congressional hearing on the assassination attempt on Trump, the FBI revealed a surprising twist regarding Thomas Crooks’ social media.

That is that he may have been a far-right terrorist.

The update comes after the FBI unearthed a social media account that it claims may be tied to Crooks. The account left around 700 comments between 2019 and 2020 and appeared to reflect “anti-Semitic and anti-immigration themes.”

“Some of these comments, if ultimately attributable to the shooter, appear to reflect antisemitic and anti-immigration themes, to espouse political violence and are described as extreme in nature,” FBI Deputy Director Paul Abbate said.

Sara Gonzales of “Sara Gonzales Unfiltered” isn’t convinced.

“I’m just wondering, do you trust the FBI?” She asks. “Do you trust the FBI’s anti-Semitism narrative?”

Gonzales then notes that Crooks had donated to ActBlue, an organization that funds Democrats, and was in a BlackRock commercial.

But Crooks' background isn’t the only thing that makes Gonzales skeptical of the narrative the FBI is now attempting to push.

“Do we trust the FBI to not feed us a narrative that they want to use against us, because this is the same FBI who is investigating grandmas who waved their American flags, who [were] led in, sent on a guided tour by Capitol Police on January 6,” Gonzales says.

“This is the same FBI who are calling parents domestic terrorists who show up at school board meetings. This is the same FBI who’s raiding pro-life protesters homes. This is the same FBI who raided Mar-a-Lago over some classified documents,” she continues, adding, “Do you trust them to not just feed you a narrative that is against half of the country?”


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