The FBI has assumed the role as the lead federal law enforcement agency in the investigation of an incident that occurred earlier today at Trump International Golf Course. The suspect in the apparent assassination of former President Donald Trump, Ryan Wesley Routh, is a U.S. citizen who set up the International Volunteer Center in Ukraine.
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00:14:16.580Third, and most importantly to your point just now we're talking about, did he have some level of military training sufficient to make him a real threat?
00:14:27.840He had an AK, which I would not have chosen as a weapon, but, you know, I'm an AR guy myself.
00:14:33.280Or I like the 7.62 as a round in the old M1As.
00:14:38.580The M1As, but this guy clearly had some level of knowledge and real-time intelligence to get him into a position where he was setting up a hide site,
00:14:51.720essentially a sniper hide site, a spider hole, if you will.
00:14:56.920And because he was not, as I'll just say it, probably not the sharpest tool in the shed when it comes to tactics and technology,
00:15:05.520he just wasn't able to set up properly in time.
00:15:08.260And I think his lack of camouflage, he clearly had some level of concealment.
00:15:13.280Uh, he was not easily observable, but the fact is that the, the, uh, the fact he didn't have adequate, uh, training to make himself more camouflage is what probably saved the president.
00:15:25.680This guy was a knucklehead when it came to that, but he, he had, uh, he had cover.
00:15:49.020According to the police reports I've read, uh, I don't have confirmation of, of, of what, uh, uh, Roth did back to them at this point at all.
00:15:57.060But I, I do think it is very possible that that body armor was used to protect him and, uh, avoid being hit by the secret service shots.
00:16:04.440Well, it's, it's certainly possible this, this makeshift ceramic tile, which could have been a tactic that, you know,
00:16:09.380he picked up while in some training, uh, in one of these international battalions in Ukraine and then has, is using, I just want people to understand that, that battlefield tactics learned in Ukraine from a side that the U S is training are now being used to conduct, uh,
00:16:26.720domestic terrorism events and assassinations here in the United States.
00:16:30.980I want everyone to be clear what has just been learned here.
00:16:35.780This is tactic technique procedure flow coming from the battlefield in Ukraine is now back here at home.
00:16:41.420And by the way, I might have an answer for your question, but it actually, it creates a secondary question because one of the things that he was charged with, uh, earlier today, and he was laughing by the way, as they brought him into the courtroom was possession of a firearm as a felon.
00:16:56.860Well, the question for me is we ask, why did he use the AK?
00:17:03.420If he was a formerly convicted felon, uh, someone had been through the service, is it, or the justice system, is it possible then that he brought this, uh, AK variant back with him from Ukraine?
00:17:16.640Is it, I mean, Tony, you know that that's possible to get back into the U S.
00:17:21.120Well, there's any number of ways you can bring a weapon in, uh, especially right now with the poorest borders, heck with the Kamala Harris is open border.
00:17:28.540You could probably, uh, bring in a, a, a, a, uh, recordless rifle, Jack, from the Mexican army.
00:17:40.840By the way, how did they get here from Hawaii?
00:17:42.460How did he go from Hawaii where he supposedly lives now to, uh, to Florida without being tracked?
00:17:48.040There's, there's some real mysteries here, but let me hit some real mysteries.
00:17:51.420We are going to continue right after the break, quick break, Tony.
00:17:54.660And then I'll come right back to you when we come in, because there's a lot of questions and people need to hear this from the highest levels available.
00:18:01.580Again, was this a blowback assassination attempt on president Trump?
00:18:06.520Ukrainian foreign fighter returns to the United States and attempts to kill Donald Trump.
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00:20:36.580So part of the story, which is developed, which, strangely enough, the public radio, North Carolina public radio reported when this all happened, is that this guy is a convicted felon because he had an automatic weapon.
00:21:12.760It's like DHS or FBI should have been tracking this guy.
00:21:15.620You point out correctly that he's got a huge public profile.
00:21:20.320He's been in The New York Times, Newsweek.
00:21:22.340He's made a very public, I'll say nuisance, because that's what I think it is, of himself promoting the Ukrainian cause.
00:21:30.280No matter how you feel about Ukraine, people like him are not representative of the best and brightest of the United States.
00:21:36.260And for a felon to be going to support the folks over in Ukraine, that's not a good look.
00:21:42.860Secondly, then, I think he did get, quote unquote, radicalized, more committed to acts of violence and extremism by being in Ukraine.
00:21:53.480Every indication is that he was over there with their military.
00:21:56.920He alluded to working with other members of the other U.S. expats who were over there serving in the Ukrainian military.
00:22:05.780I suspect that some of the folks we may see come up by name were some of the most radical element members of our left here.
00:22:13.520So it all fits to put together an initial picture of someone who was unhinged, radicalized and clearly a danger to himself and others regarding the potential use of weapons.
00:22:25.420And somehow he got that AK-47, he somehow moved without any issues or difficulty to be in the right place at the right time, right at a time when President Trump was going to be within small arms range.
00:23:10.400Check the security cordon for, oh, I don't know, maybe a Nissan Xterra that's been sitting out for 12 hours.
00:23:15.800Because think of this, if the shots rang out at 2 p.m. and where ABC is giving us now a window of about 12 hours, we can get the map up for people to see the general vicinity of where this was in the Palm Beach area.
00:23:26.740So that means the car would have been there at potentially 2 in the morning, 3 in the morning.
00:23:33.400That's a vehicle that you would expect would be picked up immediately by local police.
00:23:39.500They would have heard it on their patrols.
00:23:41.740If you had just simply, again, made one phone call to the local patrol and say, have you seen anything suspicious?
00:23:48.280Said, yeah, we got this car that's been sitting there for all these hours.
00:24:00.740We're not talking, by the way, about encrypted SIGINT communications.
00:24:04.460We're not talking about, you know, deep web analysis.
00:24:07.400We're talking about did you walk around the corridor and did you see if there was anyone suspicious with, oh, I don't know, AK-47s in sniper hide positions with ceramic tile using battlefield tactics from Ukraine on the golf course.
00:24:22.380This is something, obviously, and I commend, of course, the Secret Service agent who did see what happened and responded thusly.
00:24:28.980But again, the question goes back to why has President Trump not been given the basic level of security that he should have had already?
00:24:36.880And furthermore, did this individual have some kind of foreknowledge of President Trump?
00:24:42.380And by the way, I'll throw out there that I would say, yes, it is possible to guess that or assess that President Trump may go golfing on a Sunday when he's in town.
00:24:56.080Palm Beach is not that big of a place.
00:24:57.780President Trump is not exactly able to conceal his movements.
00:25:00.860And so he's about easy to conceal his movements as an aircraft carrier is to conceal at sea because everyone can see the motorcades, et cetera, when he travels.
00:25:08.380And you can see, obviously, this was probably close enough that you could see the plane sitting across the street there.
00:25:13.320That also may have been one of the reasons that he was hanging out in this vicinity to see if the Trump aircraft was there on the tarmac.
00:25:19.920But it still doesn't answer the question of how that he knew precisely to be there in the bushes while President Trump was just minutes away.
00:25:29.860And, Tony, look, I mean, the idea that the idea that this guy was able to do all of this, including get that gun while a convicted felon and able to do also by himself, I think is ridiculous.
00:25:41.860I think it's completely ridiculous to think this guy was acting alone.
00:25:44.420Well, yeah, these all require some level of cooperation by somebody.
00:25:51.120You just don't go out to Walmart and buy an unmarked AK-47.
00:25:55.740You don't just go out and buy weapons, I mean, buy the body armor components without some level of paper trail of some sort or getting from someone.
00:26:05.480The other thing, Jack, I think we need to pay attention to, and you mentioned it, is that, you know, the fact is that this guy was there for 12 hours and there was no surveillance.
00:26:12.920Again, I said this in jest, but I really, really not.
00:26:18.180He's now federally licensed to fly this drone.
00:26:20.880Jack, you can buy sophisticated drones.
00:26:23.600Many local police departments and service departments now have these things.
00:26:26.980Why don't you put one or two Secret Service guys on watch to actually do surveillance of the perimeter as you go?
00:26:35.260This gives you a cheap, very reliable aviation asset that you can use flare, you can use infrared, you can detect body heat rapidly in a situation like this.
00:26:47.220You could have put them out there and just tracked people in random.
00:26:50.680By the way, there's no presumption of privacy if you're in public.
00:27:04.080Why weren't sufficient adequate and effective security measures in place to prevent a threat from being close?
00:27:10.940And why wasn't the threat identified and rapidly acted upon once it was there?
00:27:15.160Those are two parts of the sandwich which we still don't know why they didn't come together.
00:27:19.820But I think we're going to come to find, again, there's purposeful incompetence afoot by those in power who at DHS are trying to make it easy for someone like this guy to get in close.
00:27:32.220Just receiving some information here, talking about the scope, talking about how potentially it was put together.