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Ever notice how many people committing violent crimes, including mass shootings, turn out to be “known wolves?”

They have been on the radar of law enforcement for months or years but somehow manage to commit heinous crimes. It turns out that Ryan Routh was just such a man, having been flagged to Homeland Security not once but twice. He had a long criminal record which included possession of a “weapon of mass destruction,” yet he was allowed to fly abroad, consort with Middle Eastern soldiers, and get within a few hundred yards of the former president. 

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Fox News has been compiling a profile of Routh and it sure looks like he was a prime candidate for the terrorist watch list, but somehow it is Tulsi Gabbard that wound up there and Routh was allowed to roam the world. 

Routh was not a sane or harmless guy. 

GREENSBORO, N.C. – Ryan Routh, the man named as a suspect in what authorities believe was an assassination attempt against former President Trump on Sunday, deteriorated from a successful roofer to a man who thought the IRS was sending the cops after him, according to a retired officer who had more than 100 interactions with Routh.

Routh’s arrest record in Guilford County, North Carolina, spans between the 1980s and 2010, and his charges range from writing multiple bad checks to felony firearm possession, possession of a stolen vehicle and multiple counts of possession of a weapon of mass destruction in 2002 — specifically, a “binary explosive with a 10-in[ch] detonation cord and a blasting cap.” 

“Routh’s attitude was that he was above everybody. He could do what he wanted,” Eric Rasecke, a retired Greensboro Police Department officer and Air Force veteran, told Fox News Digital. “It didn’t matter. He was pretty entitled. … He ran his mouth quite a bit about how he could get off and how he owned a successful business and nobody could do anything to him and he knew everybody in Greensboro.”

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How does a person with multiple charges of possessing a “weapon of mass destruction”–AFTER things tightened up post 9/11–not get flagged? 

Homeland Security must have had him on the radar. When he reentered the country after recruiting Middle Easterners to fight in Ukraine, he was referred to Homeland Security for investigation by Customs and Border Protection, but Homeland declined to follow up. After all, they had to follow Lt. Col. Tulsi Gabbard around. 

“Subject is a USC who had traveled to Kiev, Ukraine for 3 months to help recruit Soldiers from Afghanistan, Moldova, and Taiwan, to fight in the Ukrainian war against Russia,” the CBP interview notes of Routh state.

“Subject stated that he does not get paid for his recruiting efforts and all his work for the Ukrainian government is strictly volunteer work Subject provided his recruiting business card (cards have been uploaded into the event) which list his recruiting partners that he speaks with to recruit soldiers from Afghanistan, Romanian, Pakistan, Syria, and Israel,” the note added. “Subject stated that he obtains money from his wife to help fund his trips to Ukraine.”

The memo stated that the Ukraine advocate was referred to Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), the lead investigative organ of the Homeland Security Department, but the division declined to pursue the matter.

“HSI was contacted and refused the case,” the interview memo stated.

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In other words, Routh was a “known wolf” who was allowed to travel the world and get within shooting range of Trump. The second shooter to do so in as many months. 

Is Homeland Security, run by political hack Alejandro Mayorkas, simply incompetent beyond explanation? Or is there a pattern developing?