Exclusive | Alleged would-be Trump assassin Ryan Routh offers to become Hamas hostage in bizzare letter

President-elect Donald Trump’s unhinged, would-be assassin Ryan Routh fancies himself a real-life George Bailey from “It’s a Wonderful Life,” is obsessed with Alexander Hamilton — and is offering to become a Hamas hostage.Routh, 58 — currently locked up in a Miami federal prison while he awaits trial on the attempted assassination of a presidential candidate — included the revelations in a nutty jailhouse letter obtained by The Post.“Will you go with me to Gaza and surrender to Hamas in exchange for a hostage life, please? Will you help me stop the killing of innocent children and families by offering yourself to restart the peace process and end this war?” begins the rambling, two-page, typed missive.Routh writes that he has been reading about the life of founding father Hamilton and “crying” over his death in a duel with former Vice President Aaron Burr.He also compared himself to Bailey, the golden-hearted banker famously played by Jimmy Stewart in the 1946 Frank Capra Christmastime classic.“I wish for a world where we always put in more than we take out, and do not care for money, or material goods, but do not wish for our neighbors to struggle around the globe,” he writes.

“I feel as George Bailey, wondering if there is support and value in honor, dignity, righteousness, meek, modest, altruism, magnanimity, empathy, kindness, caring [and] sacrifice.”The envelope showed Routh’s name, prison ID number and return address at the prison.The letter was also signed by Routh’s daughter, Sara Routh, 31, an electrician living in Hawaii.

Reached by phone, she confirmed the letter’s authenticity.“I would say that I am willing to surrender in Gaza ..

.merely to restart the peace conversation,” he writes, saying he and other good Samaritans taking the place of Israeli hostages would eliminate the need for Israel to continue its military campaign in the territory.

Routh was grabbed by federal authorities while hiding in shrubbery ...

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Publisher: New York Post

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