The Second Assassination Attempt on Trump: Profile of a Neocon Terrorist
On Sunday, September 15, a casual afternoon round of golf turned into a chaotic scene, when a man was spotted with a rifle near where former president Donald Trump was golfing.
Authorities now believe the suspect, Ryan Wesley Routh, was planning to assassinate Trump – just over two months after another assassination attempt on the former president, in Pennsylvania.
Routh’s numerous online statements are at times indecipherable; at others, he sounds like a virulent Washington D.C. neocon – a man who prioritizes radical, ideologically-motivated military interventionism in foreign conflicts at the expense of traditional diplomacy.
“Routh seems to embody the feverish insanity of the Neocons and their intelligence apparatus allies, their revulsion for diplomacy and their preference for violence-assassination and war- as the instruments for US global hegemony,” said Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Once Routh’s location in bushes near the golf course became known, he fled by foot before driving off in a black Nissan SUV. Local police apprehended the suspect from his vehicle and took him into custody without a struggle. Law enforcement later confirmed that Routh was armed with an AK-47 style weapon and scope. He was
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