Trump slams Harris-Biden admin for mishandling second assassination attempt: Slap on the wrist
Former President Donald Trump claimed Monday the Harris-Biden administration is “mishandling and downplaying” the second assassination attempt on his life this year.Ryan Wesley Routh — the 58-year-old who is suspected of lying in wait for the 45th president on his Florida golf course — was ordered held without bond Monday by a federal judge in West Palm Beach.Routh was initially charged with possessing a firearm despite being a convicted felon and possessing a firearm with an obliterated serial number, though federal prosecutors signaled Monday that more serious charges were coming.“BREAKING: The Kamala Harris/Joe Biden Department of Justice and FBI are mishandling and downplaying the second assassination attempt on my life since July.
The charges brought against the maniac assassin are a slap on the wrist,” Trump wrote in a statement shortly after Routh was ordered to pretrial detention.“It’s no wonder, since the DOJ and FBI have been coming after me nonstop with Weaponized Lawfare since I announced my first Historic Campaign for the Presidency.”Investigators have said that Routh fled his makeshift sniper’s nest off the 6th hole of Trump International Golf Club West Palm Beach — without getting a shot away at the 78-year-old Republican nominee — after a Secret Service agent on advance patrol spotted the barrel of Routh’s gun and fired at him.Trump was also shot in the right ear during a July 13 campaign rally in Butler, Pa., by gunman Thomas Matthew Crooks.The 20-year-old was perched on a roof opposite of the outdoor rally stage and aimed for the former president, getting off eight shots before being killed by a Secret Service counter-sniper.“From Russia, Russia, Russia, Ukraine, Ukraine, Ukraine, Iran, Iran, Iran, Impeachment Hoax Number One, Impeachment Hoax Number Two, to the Lawless Documents Hoax brought after an Illegal and unConstitutional Raid of my home, on which I am suing the DOJ for their wrongful acts, to the January 6th H...