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A Democrat catchphrase featured prominently as former President Donald Trump’s latest would-be assassin appealed directly to the Biden-Harris administration and his alleged past loomed large.

Unlike the narrative jockeying around tragedies with firearms where murderous intent gets pitted against gun-grabbing agendas, the apparent motive of Sunday’s attempt on Trump’s life was not so readily dismissed by corporate media. With considerable credit given to social media accounts archiving 58-year-old suspect Ryan Wesley Routh’s activity, the man’s own rhetoric was akin to the hyperbole of the left as he declared, “We cannot afford to fail.”

Such were the words of the man spotted with a rifle while the GOP leader golfed at the Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Florida.

“Your campaign should be called something like KADAF. Keep America democratic and free,” Routh posted to X on April 22, 2024, while tagging President Joe Biden. “Trumps should be MASA …make Americans slaves again master. DEMOCRACY is on the ballot and we cannot lose. We cannot afford to fail. The world is counting on us to show the way.”

In another message captured via screenshot by Libs of TikTok, he directed his words to Vice President Kamala Harris on July 17, 2024, just days after a would-be assassin opened fire at Trump’s Butler, Pennsylvania rally, and said, “You and Biden should visit the injured people in the hospital from the Trump rally and attend the funeral of the murdered fireman. Trump will never do anything for them….show the world what compassion and humanity is all about.”

According to the Daily Mail, the suspect who claimed to have voted for Trump in 2016, while records showed a number of small donations to Democratic Party campaigns, had evidently soured on the Republican figure and wrote in June 2020, “We all were greatly disappointed and it seems you are getting worse and devovling; are you retarded. I will be glad when you gone [sic].”

Billionaire Elon Musk was also dragged into the self-styled Ukraine War recruiter’s comments as he directed a message to the tech mogul shortly after the Russian invasion that read, “I would like to buy a rocket from you. I wish to load it with a warhead for [Russian President Vladimir] Putin’s Black sea mansion bunker to end him. Can you give me a price please.”

On Monday, the Associated Press cited records from the North Carolina Department of Adult Correction when it detailed, “Records show that while living in Greensboro, North Carolina, Routh had multiple run-ins with law enforcement. He was convicted in 2002 of possessing a weapon of mass destruction…The records do not provide details about the case.”

However, a report from News & Record explained how a man named Ryan Routh had been charged with carrying a concealed weapon and possession of a weapon of mass destruction after a traffic stop resulted in a three-hour standoff with police as he was said to be in possession of a “fully automatic machine gun.”

While defending his father, Routh’s son argued that the suspect wasn’t “batsh*t” crazy but that he hated Trump like “every reasonable person does.”

Meanwhile, that animosity appeared to extend to others who’ve since entered the former president’s circle, including former Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard.

“You are an idiot—-why don’t’ you go and Join Putin and trump and be their third leg……Please leave my Hawaii—You embarrass me,” wrote Routh in a March 15, 2022 post pointed out by journalist Andy Ngô. “Shut your stupid mouth. This a war where people are getting slaughtered for no reason..I AM GOING TO FIGHT AND DIE FOR UKRAINE.”

For his part, Musk, who had emphatically endorsed Trump after the first failed assassination attempt, reacted to a post from the End Wokeness account that shared some of the corporate media’s rhetoric and asserted, “The media incited this. Deliberately,” prompting the billionaire to respond, “Yes.”

Kevin Haggerty
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