Speaker of the House Mike Johnson shared an update on Donald Trump shortly after the assassination attempt on the former president’s life on Sunday; “He is unstoppable,” Johnson said on X.
“Kelly and I are departing Mar-a-Lago, where we just spent a few hours with President Trump and are thanking God for protecting him today—once again. No leader in American history has endured more attacks and remained so strong and resilient. He is unstoppable,” Johnson shared on X.
Kelly and I are departing Mar-a-Lago, where we just spent a few hours with President Trump and are thanking God for protecting him today—once again. No leader in American history has endured more attacks and remained so strong and resilient. He is unstoppable. pic.twitter.com/43Rm8SPGU8
— Speaker Mike Johnson (@SpeakerJohnson) September 15, 2024
This is the second assassination attempt on Donald Trump’s life in two months.
Fox News shared what we know about would-be assassin Ryan Wesley Routh.
From Fox News:
The 58-year-old man accused of pointing an AK-47 at former President Donald Trump on Sunday afternoon has a prolific arrest record that spans several decades.
Ryan Wesley Routh was arrested shortly after the incident at Trump International Golf Clubin West Palm Beach, Fla. Authorities said Secret Service agents fired at him after seeing the muzzle of his AK-47 pointing through a chain-link fence one hole ahead of where Trump was playing.
Authorities are treating the episode as an apparent assassination attempt on Trump.
A background check on the name given by officials, Ryan Wesley Routh, revealed that he currently lives in Hawaii and has faced dozens of run-ins with police, stretching back to at least the 1990s.
Routh is a native of North Carolina, where his list of arrests includes simple drug possession, driving without a license, expired inspection and operating a vehicle with no insurance. In addition, the Greensboro News & Record reported in 2002 that Routh was arrested after barricading himself in his roofing company’s office during a three-hour standoff that followed a traffic stop in which he put his hand on a gun before fleeing.
Routh moved to Hawaii in 2017, records show. He has since launched another construction company in Hawaii that builds simple housing structures for homeless people, according to a LinkedIn page that appears to belong to Routh.
“This does not appear to be some random guy with an AK-47 walking outside Trump’s club,” an official said after the Sunday afternoon incident.
Conservative reporter and ardent Trump supporter Laura Loomer shared screenshots of Routh’s social media activity, calling him an “avid Biden-Harris supporter who called Donald Trump a threat to democracy.”
BREAKING:
🚨MAN WHO TRIED TO ASSASSINATE PRESIDENT TRUMP IDENTIFIED AS RYAN ROUTH, AN AVID BIDEN-HARRIS SUPPORTER WHO CALLED DONALD TRUMP A THREAT TO DEMOCRACY🚨
Fox News is reporting that the man who was arrested today with a GoPro, a backpack and an AK-47 in what the FBI is… pic.twitter.com/sxvlQorKAH
— Laura Loomer (@LauraLoomer) September 15, 2024
