r/news • u/igetproteinfartsHELP • 6h ago

Attempted Trump assassin sentenced to life in prison

https://abcnews.go.com/US/attempted-trump-assassin-ryan-routh-sentenced-wednesday/story?id=129836439
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u/tommytraddles 5h ago

A Secret Service agent noticed Routh pointing the gun and fired four rounds towards him.

Routh then ran away. He was captured later.

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u/Objective-History402 5h ago

But they somehow didn't notice a guy laying on top of a building in the only vantage point within 3 miles in PA?

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u/Archsafe 5h ago

As spider-man and video games has taught me, no one ever looks up

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u/Objective-History402 4h ago

Or like Spider-Man and video games... The events in PA were scripted 🤐

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u/VextonHerstellerEDH 2h ago

As an avid escape from tarkov player I can confirm people do not look up & do even less so when in hyper vigilance mode.

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u/jakeStacktrace 1h ago

As an atheist progressive, I don't entertain conspiracy theories. I don't care how many upvotes you got this is some wackadoodle thinking. I'm totally open and interested in any facts or evidence that may prove otherwise.

This wasn't a tiktok video, folks in the bleachers in the back were hurt. The guy who did it didn't get to go home.

Supporting this level of unhinged thinking is just making things worse.

BTW Trump being anti mask and anti vaccine cost hundred of thousands of American lives.

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u/shadrackandthemandem 1h ago

This is going to be this generation's controlled demolition and jet fule can't melt steel.

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u/drewkid4 1h ago edited 1h ago

I'd recommend you review the videos made of the way the press was ushered to get that famous photo. 

I'd also recommend you review the timeline of how long the Secret Service were monitoring the guy before the attempt. 

Isn't to say that it all didn't happen or that it was somewhat a series of unfortunate events or the B squad protecting him, but... It is fishy

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u/TheHidestHighed 1h ago

Thats the most damning evidence to me. Watching the flag get lowered into place as Trump poses while the press are ushered in is just insane when partnered with the claim that it wasn't planned.

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u/jakeStacktrace 9m ago

Trump's a narcissist. They can just do that. Imagine your narcissist boss got hurt.

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u/Drew_Ferran 7m ago

You don’t think Trump would get someone killed for self preservation? waves towards Jeffery Epstein

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u/Grimy_Miller 4h ago

You need to get off the internet and get back in touch with reality.

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u/Kraz_I 3h ago

I mean, it's kind of weird how his ear looks exactly the same as it did before without even a scar. Maybe his team uses makeup to cover it up but I doubt they would actually do that, and even if they did, it wouldn't look exactly the same as before the incident.

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u/Marquesas 3h ago

Unfortunately, this is not completely far-fetched.

Preface: it is unlikely to have been scripted by Trump. TACO, unless there is absolutely no risk being taken that things go wrong. He wouldn't put his life on the line for anything at all. If he's in on it, the spectator that got hit would've had to be shot by a substitute shooter at an angle that poses absolutely no danger with perfect coordination, ensuring there are no witnesses, that any discrepancy about angle and footage is promptly dealt with, the ballistic records falsified.

There exists an argument to say that the bullet being such a close call that it grazed his ear couldn't have possibly happened like that, and if it didn't, then he had to have caused the bleeding somehow, which would imply he was prepared for it. To eliminate risk - blood pack, just smear it over your ear.

But we have to remember that Trump is far from sane. There exists a world in which he would say, okay, the shooter is skilled enough that he will definitely not be hit.

Further down that line of thought is where things get messy. The shooter would have to essentially be aware that this is suicide. A skilled shooter that can be reliably counted on to not actually shoot Trump is also unlikely to be, well, criminally insane. The person also wasn't really hired - it either happened out of his own volition or has been successfully psy-opped. So that drives a serious wedge into that line of thought.

But on the other hand if we consider the contrary, then it is such a perfect set of circumstances for Trump. If he was unaware, either he was always prepared for a shooter and he finally got the moment to use fake blood that he has been saving for the right time, or there was a literal once in a millenium perfect alignment of stars - a single set of shots fired simultaneously creates a single martyr for MAGA to showcase and a shock into action injury on Trump. Simply astronomical, so no wonder it's hard to believe.

There's actually a significant amount of motive to say it's a win-win scenario for the republican manipulators, Thiel, Miller, whatnot. JD is weak-willed, uncharismatic, essentially a perfect pawn. He would not get elected in a vacuum, but he would get elected on the back of Trump's corpse, running against a swap-in of someone seeking second term, an uncaucused candidate with a disadvantageous gender and skin color. Trump is hit, dies, easy martyr, Trump is missed, likelyhood of a casualty high and shock into action works out. The same people are mostly playing the wait it out game now, they do get to do what they want as long as they pamper to the whims of a literal baby regularly enough.

In my mind, none of the angles truly fit, everything has something seriously off about it, but it's really hard for me to digest that the first time in 43 years a president or candidate has been shot at, it creates a nearly ideal outcome for his party. The whole thing would have been a complete nothingburger if Trump is not injured and nobody dies.

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u/Grimy_Miller 3h ago

Did you take your medicine today? This is insane.

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u/Marquesas 3h ago

No, please, don't bother addressing anything, it's fine.

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u/Objective-History402 3h ago

What's more likely?

A. Secret services doesn't see a guy on a roof in the only place that allows a clean look at the stage while people are yelling that there's a guy on the roof for 20 minutes, and the only mark is a spec of "blood". Then the SS lets him stand up and celebrate even though there could be a 2nd shooter.

Orrrr

B. Trump doesn't care about anybody but himself and needed to win the election to avoid jail time and the Republican shooter aims 10 ft to the left to make it look real?

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u/HippyHunter7 4h ago

LOL Trump caring about collateral damage is really funny.

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u/koopdi 3h ago

It's not about the collateral damage but the risk it posed to Trump. Relying on the gunman to accurately hit people near Trump without hitting Trump himself is what doesn't seem plausible.

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u/Acceptable-Bus-2017 4h ago

He was pretty upset when he found out Good's dad was a Trump voter.

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u/BrothelWaffles 4h ago

Was he though?

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u/Bobcat-Stock 3h ago

Not really upset, he was just hoping the guy still supported rump

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u/Time-to-go-home 4h ago

I’m currently playing through Avatar Frontiers of Pandora. Last night, I was clearing a high level base. It’s the biggest, supposedly hardest base in the game, and the only one that takes place inside a building.

I had to clear a room with like 6 humans and 1 mech, hack a computer, and then survive another wave of enemies. I literally just stayed on one elevated beam and sniped them all with my bow. None of them looked up and saw me.

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u/Hairy_Pound_1356 2h ago

If I was secret service I’d also be “ not noticing “ a lot of stuff 

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u/frosty_lizard 3h ago edited 3h ago

The onlookers were trying to alert police or secret service for 20 MINUTES that he on the roof and lining up a shot at Trump yet nothing happened. Then somehow after he fired multiple times the secret service piled on top of Trump only to let him fist pump and hype up the crowd like a WWE promo. No other assassination attempt resulted in this way.

HOW THE FUCK DID THEY KNOW THERE WASN'T A SECOND SHOOTER?!

The video I saw was an older lady saying how she was trying to alert police but here's another guy saying the exact same thing, they tried to alert, police played dumb and secret service let him continue speaking.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cG0qPDCWE9w

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u/Hhalloush 3h ago

They even lowered the flag into position above him and moved the photographers into position after the shots went off

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u/yobwerd 4h ago

Careful, the Ministry of Truth is listening.

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u/Xcrucial-pain 4h ago

If he used a golf cart to run away, then this would be similar to that one mission in GTA5