Did Iran plant the child porn, too? The failed Trump assassination is a gift that keeps on giving
Presidential assassinations have become such a yawn now. Nothing like some kiddie porn to spice things up. And why not toss a foreign foe into the mix, while they’re at it.
Twice in two months someone has allegedly tried to knock off former (and potential future) US President Donald Trump. There was barely any time for authorities to give the public info about the first shooter’s background and motives before another one came along. Which must be why they haven’t bothered furnishing the info. In any case, the 'first' shooter is dead now, shot on the rooftop. He managed to fire some bullets at Trump before secret service and local law enforcement officers put down their coffees to deal with him. What’s this guy’s name again? Who even cares. Let’s just move along to the next assassination attempt, shall we? Because, apparently, we now live in a video game where everyone just shrugs them off and carries on.
Next up: Ryan Routh. Player Two is a middle-aged guy who got so worked up over Kiev and Washington’s shared rhetoric about the need to support Ukraine that he took it personally. He went over to Ukraine and tried to go straight to the frontlines himself, but was denied his wish to become cannon fodder. So he just hung around Kiev, turning into such a fixture that he photobombed an Azov propaganda video. He had a GoFundMe for the purchase of drones, had personally spent some time handcrafting some, and told any media outlet that would listen to him how he was recruiting foreign fighters for Kiev from places like Afghanistan. This guy was all up in everyone’s grill, and even headed to Washington DC for media interviews about his efforts, yet Routh didn’t register on the radar of any responsible adults.
Even the pro-Ukrainian NAFO [North Atlantic Fella Organization] trolls on social media have been trying to disown him as too nuts even for them. But perhaps the fact that he blended in so well made him harder to pick up. Even when it’s alleged that he spent 12 hours hanging out by Trump’s West Palm Beach golf club before taking a failed shot at the president while he golfed.
Anyway, he’s in prison now, charged with attempted assassination. But the Justice Department found a manifesto, and published it. “Dear World, This was an assassination attempt on Donald Trump,” it says. In case anyone may have figured that he was just in the area cleaning his gun and it accidentally discharged in Trump’s general direction. “But I am so sorry I failed you. I tried my best and gave it all the gumption I could muster,” said the guy whose gumption was, by all accounts, not actually called into question on anything he has done, unlike his competence or judgment. “It is up to you now to finish the job, and I will offer $150,000 to whomever can complete the job,” it reads. If his bullets weren’t able to finish the job on Trump, then he apparently was going to make sure that his valuation of Trump as being worth a piddling $150,000 would.
So where did this guy get the cash? Who knows. But the US intelligence community is trying to plant the idea in the minds of both Trump and the general public that if Trump gets successfully picked off, it’s because of Iran and not their own industrial-grade incompetence. “Big threats on my life by Iran. The entire U.S. Military is watching and waiting. Moves were already made by Iran that didn’t work out, but they will try again,” Trump wrote on X.
No doubt it’s just a coincidence that, at the same time, Iran is squaring up for a potential massive punch-up with US protectorate, and its “ Best Friend In The Middle East ”™️, Israel, over exploding Hezbollah pagers and bombs in Lebanon. And look who also comes along to chime in, telling Fox News that America needs to “seize the moment” with Iran – Trump’s former CIA director, Mike Pompeo, so unrecognizable from massive weight loss that it looks like he’s personally getting into shape to fight Iran himself. We’re talking about the same guy who convinced Trump to kill Iranian military commander General Qassem Soleimani, by hitting sovereign nation Iraq with a missile, according to CNN – all before trying to claim that the hit was self-defense, despite the absence of any evidence.
Hey, if Iran is doing these Trump hits, as US intelligence suggests, then maybe it was also Iran that also planted the child porn on alleged wannabe assassin Routh’s son Oran Routh? It turns out that when the FBI raided his North Carolina home in relation to an investigation, which may or may not be into the Trump assassination attempt, they claim to have found devices with “hundreds of child pornography files.” So he’s now been charged, too.
In the wake of his dad’s alleged assassination efforts, Routh Junior told the press that Routh Senior had been in Ukraine to “make sure shit was cool, and shit was not cool.” So he then allegedly took out his frustrations on the former president, whom Routh Jr describes as “sitting behind his f***ing desk, not doing a goddamn thing.” According to the authorities, it was Routh Jr who was sitting around and diddling.
The latest narrative suggests that Ryan Routh was like, “See ya, son. Gotta go to Ukraine to keep Putin in line. Don’t get into any trouble, okay?” Meanwhile, law enforcement say that they also seized cocaine, MDMA and ketamine, while NBC News cites 39 criminal cases filed against Routh Jr over 17 years. So, apparently, “shit was not cool” at home either but that didn’t stop Ukraine’s number-one fan from bailing out to serve as an underappreciated groupie of neo-Nazi-linked movements in Kiev and leaving his son unsupervised.
So what’s the takeaway in all this – beyond the fact that the Kiev-Washington axis’s “Snow ISIS” seems to inspire some real degenerates? Well, Routh Jr certainly gives authorities a ton of bargaining material. And we’ve already seen child-porn charges used to get witnesses talking in politically-driven cases. Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team, which was ultimately unable to prove Trump-Russia collusion in the 2016 presidential election, leveraged child-porn charges to get lobbyist George Nader to spill what he knew about a rumored Trump-Russia back channel, in exchange for some leniency.
Who knows how all this will ultimately play out. But, if anyone is ripe for being susceptible to the Iran narrative that the establishment is hard-peddling, my money is on the guy up to his eyeballs in child porn.
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