We thought that Ryan Routh would be facing trial very soon for attempting to assassinate President-elect Donald Trump in September. Now, it looks like he may not go to trial until sometime after Trump leaves office in 2029.
Both the federal prosecutor’s and Routh’s defense team are asking the court to delay the trial so they can sift through 4,000 terabytes of data. It could take years before we find out anything new about Routh that is substantive. That seems to be by design.
The big headlines for the past week have all been related to the assassination of a senior executive at UnitedHealthcare in Manhattan. CEO Brian Thompson was gunned down in front of bystanders and on security video. The ensuing manhunt for the shooter was the main thing on the news for several days.
Police arrested Luigi Mangione at a McDonald’s in Pennsylvania earlier this month. They say he had the 3D-printed murder weapon in his backpack, along with his manifesto about why he carried out the shooting.
Mangione is a trust fund baby from Maryland. He went to a prep school for boys that cost $40,000 a year. He then studied at the Ivy League University of Pennsylvania. Mangione’s LinkedIn page says he worked as a data engineer for a California-based online auto market, and that he now lives in Hawaii.
Luigi Mangione also suffers from debilitating back pain after a failed surgery, which may have played a role in why he gunned down the CEO of UnitedHealthcare. The young man had turned to drugs to try to deal with his back pain. That includes psychedelic mushrooms that might have made him go slightly or all the way crazy.
Do you get the gist of what I’m saying? Within about four hours of the arrest of Luigi Mangione, most of us knew virtually everything about this kid. It’s been five months since Thomas Matthew Crooks shot President Trump in the ear in Pennsylvania, and we still know next to nothing about him. It’s been three months since Ryan Routh tried to shoot Trump at his Palm Beach golf course, and we still know next to nothing about him.
“Someone” does not want us to know about Routh or Crooks. Otherwise, we would know just as much about each of them as we knew about Luigi Mangione within a few hours of his arrest.
Crooks’s body was cremated within a matter of days after the shooting, before a congressional investigator could get a look at him. There are now reports that the bullets recovered from the scene in Butler, PA have all disappeared from the evidence locker.
As for Routh, he’s still an enigma as well. Prosecutors and defense attorneys say they’re going to need a lot longer—possibly years—before the trial can even start.
It turns out investigators have recovered 18 cell phones from Ryan Routh, despite the fact that he was practically homeless. The 18 phones had service from five different phone companies. Just the phones alone represent a huge amount of data that needs to be examined. On top of that, Routh owned two desktop computers, a laptop, two iPads, a Kindle Fire tablet, and five external storage drives.
Routh is obviously some kind of spy for the intelligence agencies. That is the only possible conclusion we can come to about this guy. Here’s the biggest bombshell from the latest Routh court filing:
The FBI identified a tire tread and a shoe print at his sniper’s nest near the golf course that does not belong to Ryan Routh. The filing states, “Impression 12B does not correspond in outsole or tread with design with the submitted footwear (shoes from Ryan Routh) or images of the tires (from Ryan Routh’s vehicle).”
Yikes! Someone else was there with Ryan Routh at the golf course during the 12 hours that he waited for President Trump to show up for an unannounced, unscheduled round of golf. That person left before a Secret Service agent shot at Routh and scared him away.
Wouldn’t you like to know who that second person was?
We hope that incoming FBI Director Kash Patel will speed things up and start shedding some sunlight on these assassination attempts. Of course, that’s assuming that all the evidence doesn’t walk off before January 20th. It would be nice if the guys who attempted to shoot the leading presidential candidate would get as much scrutiny as the guy who shot an insurance CEO a few days ago.
