THE FORGOTTEN TRUMP ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT. You might not be aware of it, but there is a trial going on in Florida for Ryan Routh, the man authorities say came within minutes of carrying out his plan to assassinate President Donald Trump on Sept. 15, 2024, during the presidential campaign.

The Routh assassination attempt came just two months after Thomas Crooks fired a high-velocity rifle round that hit Trump in the ear during a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. One man was killed and two others were wounded in Crooks’s attack. Crooks was killed by a Secret Service sniper after firing eight rounds.

Crooks’s motive has never been clear. That is not to say he did not have one. But all levels of law enforcement — Secret Service, police, and others — have been decidedly nontransparent in this case. When the subject came up on Fox News recently, anchorman Bret Baier, with frustration in his voice, said, “We still ask questions about the shooter in Butler. We still do not have the answers that we have been seeking, either from Capitol Hill or from authorities.” 

Routh’s motive, on the other hand, is clear. He is a hardcore anti-Trump warrior who was obsessed with a) the war in Ukraine, and b) ridding the world of the threat of Donald Trump. 

Routh, 59, has worked off-and-on as a builder and roofer. He has also racked up weapons charges in the last 25 years or so. In the past few years, he........

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