Donald Trump’s alleged assassin, Ryan Routh, denounced the two major parties and asserted his political independence in a lengthy prison letter he sent to a journalist from his prison in Miami.
‘A guard [in] Palm Beach jokingly asked if I was a Democrat – I said, “NO – Independent – I’m voting for the best candidate,” Routh wrote in a letter from a prison cell in Florida, where he is awaiting charges after allegedly beating a Trump golf course was washed away. after setting up a ‘sniper’s nest’ with a powerful weapon.
It is one of the unusual passages in a four-page handwritten letter that arrived at the office of Politics in suburban Washington, addressed to legal columnist Ankush Khardori.
Rou was born in North Carolina and moved to Hawaii, where he faced a series of criminal charges over the years. Authorities say a Secret Service agent shot the suspect, Routh, after he lurked just outside Trump’s Florida golf course in September while the now president-elect was playing.
His letter, published weeks after an election in which several third-party candidates were running, contains rants about the two-party system.
“It’s beyond me how we allowed ourselves to fall into a two-party system, but it infuriates me,” Routh wrote.
“My whole life has been plagued with D’s and R’s. It seems that not long ago there was a push towards the Libertarian Party and now towards a Green Party and perhaps the Truth Party. But for some reason our leaders have not allowed any other party [to] be recognized in any race.”
The subsequent Ryan Wesley Routh was arrested on September 15 and is accused of plotting to assassinate Donald Trump
Routh posted in the past that Trump was his “choice” in 2016, but then became angry with the former president. He wrote in 2020: ‘I will be happy when you are gone.’
Routh, who called himself the “alleged shooter,” also took aim at the “two ruling parties,” complaining about the growing national debt and calling for a solution to the “balls out” problem.
He lamented the “gridlock in Congress” – a common complaint across the political spectrum, and called for public financing of campaigns, an idea usually associated with the left.
“We all wonder why we end up with such flawed candidates, when our system is designed to exclude virtually everyone,” he wrote during a campaign in which polls showed most Americans unhappy with their options.
The bizarre letter comes during the transition to a second term of Donald Trump
In the letter, Routh draws a comparison between himself and Thomas Matthew Crooks, identified by the FBI as the gunman who shot Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania.
Politico did not publish the entire article, but excerpts show he compared himself to Trump’s alleged attempted assassination of Thomas Matthew Crooks in Butler, Pennsylvania.
Routh said they were both “ready to die for freedom and democracy.” The publication said the language “connected” him to Crooks. Rought, who also referred to himself as the ‘Trump Alleged Shooter,’ has pleaded not guilty.”
Part of his letter discusses the Middle East. (Routh has also complained about problems connecting with foreign fighters who want to join Ukraine’s defenses).
“We must demand that Israel stop its attacks and demand that all parties come to the table and find common ground,” he wrote.
It says Trump has “destroyed the Middle East” and rejected his decision to withdraw the US from the Iran nuclear deal. He used the correct official acronym, JCPOA, which indicates some knowledge of the political debate surrounding the move. He blamed Trump “for all the lives lost and all the destruction.”
Earlier this month, the Justice Department announced that he had been charged in an alleged Iranian plot to try to assassinate Trump.