OAN Staff Brooke Mallory
4:53 PM – Tuesday, November 26, 2024
In an unsettling letter from jail, Ryan Routh, who is accused of taking part in the second assassination attempt on Donald Trump’s life, linked himself to the now-deceased 20-year-old Thomas Crooks, the 47th president-elect’s first failed assassin.
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In the letter, Routh initially blames the “two-party system” for his own actions.
After attempting to assassinate Trump at his Florida golf property earlier this year, Routh, 58, wrote the letter to Politico reporter Ankush Khardori from a federal jail facility in Miami, Florida, where he is still awaiting trial.
Before a Secret Service agent spotted a rifle “poking out of the tree line” on September 15th, waiting for Trump while he was playing golf at the Trump…
