As the scope of would-be Trump assassin Ryan Routh becomes clearer, you can only come to one of two conclusions. Either Routh is the luckiest white man in history, or he works for one of the intelligence agencies.
Prosecutors from the Department of Justice have entered new evidence about Routh into the court proceedings against him, for trying to assassinate President Trump back in September 2024.
According to the documents, which are all public record now, Routh went on a crime spree back in 2002 that was absolutely bonkers. And he served no jail time after he was caught!
Back in 2002, Routh owned a business in Greensboro, NC, called United Roofing. In April of that year, police were called to the business on a report of threats of violence.
When the cops arrived, there was a large crowd of Hispanic illegal aliens in front of the building. One of them had asked Routh for his paycheck, but then Routh had pulled a sawed-off shotgun on him. The employee managed to wrestle the gun away from Routh. So then, Routh did what any normal small business owner would do in that situation.
He ran over his employee with his car!
Routh apparently hit the guy with an open car door as he was fleeing the scene.
“The victim’s left forearm and elbow received the worst lacerations,” states the Greensboro police report on the incident. Routh was gone by then, so police issued a warrant for his arrest, declaring him a “dangerous person.”
They finally picked him up ten days later. The following day, Routh got his hands on a cell phone at the Guilford County Jail. Routh called one of his employees and told him to stop by United Roofing to remove the cache of explosives from his property. A jailhouse snitch ratted him out and informed police that Routh’s employee had removed the explosives from United Roofing.
Police contacted that employee, who showed them the bombs. At least one was active and had been wired up to explode, so the bomb squad had to defuse it. The employee also told police that he had seen Routh carrying around a bomb several days before all this happened.
When he asked Routh why he was walking around with a bomb in his coat pocket, Routh stated that “it was the next best thing to a gun.”
Officers contacted the company where the explosives had originated. They said they had refused to sell explosives to Routh. He was a roofer and roofers aren’t authorized to purchase explosives, obviously. The employees thought that Routh must have used a straw purchaser to buy the bombs for him.
So, now this was suddenly a federal investigation, and the ATF got involved. Ryan Routh was in possession of weapons of mass destruction. As you may recall, the federal government started taking that seriously after 9/11.
The ATF never charged Routh with a crime.
Routh was out on bail a few months later when he was pulled over in a routine traffic stop. When an officer spotted a machine gun in Routh’s car, Routh fled the scene and barricaded himself inside United Roofing. Following a three-hour standoff with police, Routh surrendered without any shots being fired.
So, to recap, Ryan Routh committed the following federal crimes in North Carolina in 2002:
Providing employment to illegal aliens, refusing to pay an employee his wages, running over an employee with his car, possession of a sawed-off shotgun, possession of a machinegun, and possession of weapons of mass destruction.
That doesn’t include the state charges for resisting arrest, evading police, or engaging in a police standoff in his place of business. Just the possession of the explosives alone could have netted Ryan Routh a 10-year federal prison sentence.
Guess what sentence Routh received?
60 months of probation.
He didn’t spend a day in prison for crimes that would get a normal person locked up for the rest of their life. He got 60 months of probation.
The ATF doesn’t appear to have followed up on the case at all. It’s as if the feds were ordered to drop the Ryan Routh matter entirely.
Prosecutors want to be able to include Routh’s 2002 crime spree in the case against him. The next hearing is scheduled for May 14th, when the judge will rule on whether the jury will be allowed to hear about Ryan Routh’s amazing criminal history.
