by Stephen Kruiser
We’re in another one of the extended one-note news cycles that can be the bane of anyone who writes about the news. In a less lunatic election year, we would be in the midst of a national conversation about competing policy visions and hot-button issues. The Democratic nominee for president doesn’t have any policies, however, and she is responsible for the heat on all of the hot-button issues, so conversation is being kept to a minimum.
The Dems are selling fever pitch hyperbole and lies to their low-info base so we keep discussing attempts on former president Donald Trump’s life.
Democrats do, in fact, ruin everything.
We have quickly found out that Ryan Wesley Routh, the suspect in the second assassination attempt, isn’t some anonymous creeper who appeared out of the ether. This is from something Matt wrote yesterday:
Since then, we’ve learned more about the shooter, and it turns out that Routh was hardly some random guy. In fact, the media have interviewed him several times in the past. Routh is obsessed with the war in Ukraine and spoke with the New York Times last year about his efforts to support Ukraine’s war effort.
The old “Don’t rush to judgment, we’re not sure of the motivation here” line is having a tough sell for this one, too. As Catherine wrote, Routh was triggered by Dem rhetoric.
As the old television infomercials were fond of saying: BUT WAIT, THERE’S MORE!
(Click the tweet to see the whole thing.)
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— Ryan Petty (@rpetty) September 16, 2024
This is from Paula’s rundown of Monday’s law enforcement press conference:
2. In 2019, the FBI received a tip stating that Routh, a convicted felon, had a gun but apparently did nothing about it. Jeffrey Veltri, FBI Special Agent in Charge for the Miami field office, said, “He was the subject of a previously closed 2019 tip to the FBI, where it was alleged he was a felon in possession of a firearm, and following up on the tip, the complainant was interviewed and did not verify, I repeat, did not verify, providing the initial information. The FBI passed that information to local law enforcement.” (End of story until Routh showed up with a gun at the Trump International Golf Club.)
Gosh, it seems like we’ve heard this story before.
For decades, we have tended to find out that potential and actual killers had been known to the FBI for a while. We certainly don’t want the Bureau to go full “Minority Report” but it would be comforting if it could find a better way of keeping the violent crazies from achieving their homicidal goals.
J. Edgar Hoover is spinning in his grave at what the Demo-Rats have done with his G-Men
Again, here is someone violating gun laws and committing violent crimes with guns and yet he walks around free. The left doesn’t seem to take their own laws seriously, especially when one of their assets is violating them. Maybe instead of paying so much attention to Trump supporters and pro-lifers, they could keep some of these terrorists off the streets… if that was what they wanted to do.