Things are getting curiouser and curiouser as more information comes out about Ryan Wesley Routh, the unhinged Kamala fan who got all too close to assassinating Donald Trump on Sunday.
First, he didn’t like Trump. At all. Judging by his tweet history, he voted for Trump in 2016, but at some point became disillusioned and, clearly, violent. A truck in the driveway of his home in Hawaii is bedecked with a “Biden-Harris” campaign sticker, so his allegiances had clearly changed. He had turned on Trump way before he set up his sniper’s nest near that golf course in Florida.
Second, this wasn’t his first run-in with the law. Not by a long shot (pun not intended!). A police officer in North Carolina recalls of Routh’s time there: “I know he was constantly being arrested for a while.”
Third, he was creepily obsessed with the war in Ukraine. He seems to have spent considerable time and…
