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October 18, 2024
Election 2024
NatSec

‘Another Butler Can and *WILL* Happen,’ Says Biden’s Own Homeland Security Report.

An independent panel investigating the attempted assassination of former President Donald J. Trump at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, has issued a scathing report, warning that similar incidents “can and will happen again” unless the Secret Service undergoes serious reforms. The 35-page report, commissioned by Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, highlights critical errors made on July 13, when 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks opened fire at Trump, wounding him in the ear, killing rallygoer Corey Comperatore, and seriously injuring others.

The panel criticized the Secret Service for its complacency and lack of strategic foresight, calling for new leadership to address the agency’s systemic issues. “The Secret Service has become bureaucratic, complacent, and static, despite evolving risks and technological advancements,” the report states. It details major lapses, including the failure to secure the roof of a building from which Crooks fired and significant communication breakdowns.

The report dedicated itself to honoring Crooks’s victims but stressed that many of the security personnel involved had done little self-reflection in the aftermath of the attack.

The panel’s findings mirrored those of a Senate Homeland Security report, which also condemned the Secret Service’s handling of the Butler rally. The report criticized agents for showing a “surprising lack of rigor” in assessing the risks, with one senior agent even unaware of the basic layout of the venue.

The panel urged the Secret Service to bring in new leadership from outside the agency, warning that without fundamental reforms, future attacks could be inevitable.

Trump recently returned to Butler for a rally, paying tribute to Comperatore and the others affected by the attack.

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An independent panel investigating the attempted assassination of former President Donald J. Trump at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, has issued a scathing report, warning that similar incidents "can and will happen again" unless the Secret Service undergoes serious reforms. The 35-page report, commissioned by Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, highlights critical errors made on July 13, when 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks opened fire at Trump, wounding him in the ear, killing rallygoer Corey Comperatore, and seriously injuring others. show more
October 12, 2024
Election 2024
News

Trump’s Golf Plans Halted Until Post-Election Over Safety Concerns.

President Donald J. Trump is suspending his golfing activities due to security concerns. This decision follows conversations with federal agents, including Ronald Rowe, the Acting Director of the Secret Service, and officials from the Director of National Intelligence’s office, who expressed their inability to ensure his safety on golf courses.

They noted the difficulty in securing Trump adequately at golf courses, particularly those near public roads, after an incident in September involving an attempt to target Trump while he was golfing in Florida. The Democrat donor involved in the incident, Ryan Routh, was heavily tied to Ukraine and attempted to help the country recruit foreign fighters after its full-scale invasion by Russia in 2022. He has been charged with the attempted assassination but has pleaded not guilty.

Trump, known for his frequent golfing outings, reportedly expressed a strong desire to continue the activity. However, he was advised that considerable additional security would be necessary to mitigate potential threats.

The Secret Service had previously raised similar concerns about the risks associated with Trump’s golf outings during his presidency. Former officials indicated that these outings posed security challenges, as long-range lenses could expose him to danger.

Trump’s security challenge during golf outings is compounded by the fact that he no longer receives the same level of protection as a sitting president.

So far, there have been two major attempts on Trump’s life during the presidential campaign, including when he was shot by Thomas Matthew Crooks in Butler, Pennsylvania, in July.

Other reports have claimed that multiple assassination teams, some linked to Iran, are also targeting Trump. The Trump campaign has now requested military aircraft and other measures in the final month of the 2024 campaign in response to the heightened threat.

Image by Tim Reckmann.

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President Donald J. Trump is suspending his golfing activities due to security concerns. This decision follows conversations with federal agents, including Ronald Rowe, the Acting Director of the Secret Service, and officials from the Director of National Intelligence's office, who expressed their inability to ensure his safety on golf courses. show more
September 30, 2024
Election 2024
NatSec

Ryan Routh Pleads Not Guilty to Trump Assassination Plot.

The man charged with plotting to kill former President Donald Trump earlier this month at a Florida golf course entered a not-guilty plea on Monday. Ryan Wesley Routh, 58, appeared before U.S. Magistrate Judge Bruce E. Reinhart to answer to charges filed against him stemming from the second assassination attempt against Trump during the 2024 presidential election campaign.

During the brief appearance, which lasted under five minutes, Routh gestured towards reporters and audience members by pantomiming, scribbling on a notepad, and then pointing to himself. Judge Reinhart read the charges, and when asked if he understood, Routh responded affirmatively, “Yes, your honor.” Defense attorneys waived an official reading of the charges, entered the not-guilty plea, and requested a jury trial.

Federal prosecutors have charged Routh in a five-count indictment, accusing him of attempting to assassinate Trump on September 15. According to the indictment, a Secret Service agent noticed Routh with a gun outside the Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach. The agent fired upon Routh before he could target Trump. Routh fled but was subsequently arrested by local law enforcement.

In addition to the attempted assassination charge, the indictment also includes counts of assaulting a federal officer and three weapons violations. If convicted on all charges, Routh could spend the rest of his life in prison.

The National Pulse previously reported that Routh appears to have extensive ties to individuals in Ukraine, Afghanistan, and Iran. In a months-old letter, Routh announced a six-figure bounty for anyone who was able to assassinate the former President and 2024 Republican presidential nominee.

Routh also admits in the letter that his own attempt on Trump’s life was inspired by the rhetoric used by members of the Democratic Party.

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The man charged with plotting to kill former President Donald Trump earlier this month at a Florida golf course entered a not-guilty plea on Monday. Ryan Wesley Routh, 58, appeared before U.S. Magistrate Judge Bruce E. Reinhart to answer to charges filed against him stemming from the second assassination attempt against Trump during the 2024 presidential election campaign. show more
September 24, 2024
Crime
News

Failed Trump Assassin’s Son Arrested After Feds Find HUNDREDS of Files of Child Porn.

Authorities have arrested Oran Routh, whose father, Ryan Routh, is accused of targeting former President Donald J. Trump in a second assassination attempt earlier this month. Oran Routh faces charges for the receipt and possession of child pornography.

During a search of Oran Routh’s residence in Guilford County, North Carolina, on Saturday, investigators discovered child pornography files on Samsung Galaxy Note devices. Prosecutors detailed the findings in a criminal complaint, stating, “A review of the SD card located in Device-1 revealed that it contained hundreds of child pornography files.”

The complaint further noted that the files included videos from a known child pornography series produced outside the state of North Carolina.

Ryan Routh, Oran’s father, remains in custody under separate charges related to the assassination attempt against the former president. The discovery at Oran Routh’s residence occurred as part of the broader investigation pertaining to his father’s activities.

Law enforcement officials continue to examine the evidence collected from the search to ascertain the full extent of any criminal activities. The investigation remains ongoing, and no further details have been disclosed about potential additional charges or arrests.

Oran Routh is expected to appear in court soon to face the charges brought against him. His father’s case is progressing separately within the judicial system.

Child pornography offenses can carry severe consequences, with substantial prison sentences upon conviction.

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Authorities have arrested Oran Routh, whose father, Ryan Routh, is accused of targeting former President Donald J. Trump in a second assassination attempt earlier this month. Oran Routh faces charges for the receipt and possession of child pornography. show more
September 23, 2024
Data
News

Secret Service Approval Plummets to Record Low.

Public opinion of the Secret Service’s performance has sharply declined, hitting a record low in Gallup’s 10-year monitoring history. According to a Gallup poll conducted from September 3 to September 15, only about one in three Americans rate the Secret Service as doing an “excellent” or “good” job, representing 8 percent and 24 percent of respondents, respectively. In contrast, 25 percent rated the service’s performance as “only fair,” while 36 percent judged it as “poor.”

The poll was nearly completed before a suspected assassination attempt on Donald Trump at his Florida golf course on September 15. The Secret Service (USSS) was already under heavy criticism for allowing a gunman to open fire on the former president in Butler, Pennsylvania, striking his ear.

The negative perception is widespread among Republicans and Democrats, with positive ratings dropping significantly for both groups. Republicans’ approval fell by 26 points to 20 percent, while Democrats recorded an 18-point drop to 47 percent. Historically, Republicans have shown fluctuating support depending on which party holds the presidency, unlike the relatively stable approval from Democrats until recent years.

Over the past decade, the Secret Service has generally received strong public approval. From 2014 onwards, an average of 53 percent of Americans viewed its performance favorably—although in 2014, after multiple security breaches, including a notable fence-jumping incident at the White House, only 43 percent had rated the agency positively.

The Secret Service’s rating has seen a considerable decline in 2024, similar to significant drops Gallup has recorded for other agencies. For instance, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) rating, closely associated with unpopular pandemic-era measures, fell by 24 points from 2019 to 2021, and the Federal Reserve’s rating dropped by 23 points between 2003 and 2009.

Gallup poll assessed 14 other federal agencies. Among the survey, only the U.S. Postal Service maintained a majority of positive ratings, a trend consistent since 2014. In contrast, agencies including the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) received less favorable ratings.

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Public opinion of the Secret Service's performance has sharply declined, hitting a record low in Gallup's 10-year monitoring history. According to a Gallup poll conducted from September 3 to September 15, only about one in three Americans rate the Secret Service as doing an "excellent" or "good" job, representing 8 percent and 24 percent of respondents, respectively. In contrast, 25 percent rated the service's performance as "only fair," while 36 percent judged it as "poor." show more

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https://news.gallup.com/poll/651014/secret-service-job-rating-tumbles-points-new-low.aspx

RAHEEM J. KASSAM Editor-in-Chief
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September 23, 2024
Raheem J. Kassam
Breaking

BREAKING: Failed Assassin Ryan Routh Pledged 6-Figure Bounty on Trump, Admits Democrat-Inspired Motive in Months-Old Letter.

Federal prosecutors have revealed that Ryan Routh, the suspect in the second failed assassination of former President Donald Trump, wrote a letter months in advance outlining his plans.

The letter, addressed to the “world,” included an advance apology for his failure: “This was an assassination attempt on Donald Trump, but I am so sorry I failed you. I tried my best and gave it all the gumption I could muster.”

According to court documents, Routh placed the letter in a box along with ammunition and other writings before delivering it to an unnamed witness “several months” before the incident at Trump’s West Palm Beach golf course in Florida.

The witness, who did not open the box until learning of the attempted assassination, discovered the letter and additional disturbing contents. The letter also offered a $150,000 bounty to “whomever can complete the job.”

Routh’s Democrat-inspired motivations were revealed in the letter, where he claimed that “everyone across the globe from the youngest to the oldest” knew that Trump was unfit for office. He added that U.S. presidents must at least “embody the moral fabric that is America” and be “kind, caring, and selfless.”

Prosecutors attached a photograph of the first page of Routh’s letter to their arguments, urging the court to continue his detention. The contents of the letter are expected to play a significant role in the government’s push for his continued detainment, emphasizing the danger posed by Routh’s premeditated plans. He is scheduled to appear in court later on Monday for a detention hearing, where the court will decide whether he should remain behind bars pending further proceedings.

The handwritten letter above goes on to state in part: “He [the former President] ended relations with Iran like a child, and now the Middle East has unraveled.”

 

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Federal prosecutors have revealed that Ryan Routh, the suspect in the second failed assassination of former President Donald Trump, wrote a letter months in advance outlining his plans. show more

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September 20, 2024
Christopher Tomlinson
Election 2024
NatSec

Secret Service Report Finds Agency Responsible for Multiple Failures During Attempted Trump Assassination.

A report released by the United States Secret Service (USSS) regarding the attempted assassination of former President Donald J. Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, on July 13 admits the protective agency is responsible for numerous security and communications failures. The internal review also notes that the USSS failed to use technology that could have been detected when Thomas Matthew Crooks flew a drone above the rally site hours before the campaign rally and was not even aware that local police were searching for a suspicious person until Crooks had fired his weapon.

Former USSS director Kimberly Cheatle, who resigned shortly after the attempted assassination, initiated the review, which admits the agency did not direct local police snipers to cover a rooftop despite the officers’s willingness to do so. Additionally, the report states that agents failed to utilize the agency’s radio network—instead opting for mobile phones—which caused critical information regarding the gunman to be siloed in the moments before Crooks opened fire.

UNANSWERED QUESTIONS.

In the aftermath of the shooting, which saw former President Trump hit by a bullet in the ear—and rallygoer Corey Comperatore killed—it was revealed that the USSS was short-staffed and that many of the agents present were inexperienced Department of Homeland Security (DHS) personnel. A whistleblower also showed that USSS agents were told not to request extra manpower before the rally and were explicitly told that any requests that did come through would be denied.

Acting USSS Director Ronald Rowe Jr., who replaced Cheatle, has stated that he is “ashamed” of the agency’s failures. In late July, he said, “As a career law enforcement officer and a twenty-five-year veteran with the Secret Service, I cannot defend why that roof was not better secured.”

Rowe has stated that future event security plans will have thorough evaluations by multiple supervisors to prevent the numerous failures seen in Butler. Despite this, Trump was the target of another attempted assassination while golfing in West Palm Beach, Florida, this past weekend.

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A report released by the United States Secret Service (USSS) regarding the attempted assassination of former President Donald J. Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, on July 13 admits the protective agency is responsible for numerous security and communications failures. The internal review also notes that the USSS failed to use technology that could have been detected when Thomas Matthew Crooks flew a drone above the rally site hours before the campaign rally and was not even aware that local police were searching for a suspicious person until Crooks had fired his weapon. show more
September 20, 2024
Jack Montgomery
Crime
News

Feds Obstructing State Investigation of Trump Assassination Attempt.

The federal government is obstructing efforts by state law enforcement to investigate the alleged assassination attempt against former President Donald J. Trump in Florida. “Our investigators were rebuffed just going to the fence line outside of Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach,” said Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, who has expressed misgivings about “the same federal agencies that are seeking to prosecute Donald Trump” leading the investigation.

Asked if “the feds [are] being cooperative” in Florida’s efforts to investigate Ukraine-linked Democrat donor Ryan Routh for attempted murder—a state crime rather than a federal crime—Trump’s former rival responded: “The answer’s no, they’re not being cooperative.”

“I think they’ve taken the position [that] they don’t want the State of Florida to be involved in this, but here’s the thing: there were multiple violations of Florida law across multiple jurisdictions… so we have a duty to investigate this,” he insisted.

ANTI-TRUMP FEDS.

The National Pulse previously reported on a whistleblower describing Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Special Agent Jeffrey Veltri, who heads the Miami bureau covering the former president’s West Palm Beach home, as “adamantly and vocally anti-Trump.”

“[FBI Director Christopher] Wray, [Deputy Director Paul] Abbate, and [Executive Assistant Director Jennifer] Moore wanted to ensure that Veltri appeared non-political, [so] Veltri was ordered to remove all of his Facebook and Social media posts that were anti-Trump,” the whistleblower told the House Judiciary Committee in 2023.

Raheem Kassam, Editor-in-Chief of The National Pulse, predicted President Trump would be subject to another assassination attempt after the first one in Butler, Pennsylvania, narrowly failed. Meanwhile, America First Congressman Matt Gaetz (R-FL) says Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials have informed him that there are “five known assassination teams” currently targeting President Trump.

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The federal government is obstructing efforts by state law enforcement to investigate the alleged assassination attempt against former President Donald J. Trump in Florida. “Our investigators were rebuffed just going to the fence line outside of Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach,” said Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, who has expressed misgivings about "the same federal agencies that are seeking to prosecute Donald Trump" leading the investigation. show more
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September 20, 2024
Jack Montgomery
Data
Election 2024

POLL: 28% of Democrats Wish Trump Had Been Assassinated, Half Suspect He Staged Latest Attempt.

Twenty-eight percent of Democrats believe “America [would] be better off if Donald Trump had been killed last weekend,” and another 25 percent are “not sure.” Fewer than half of Democrat respondents to Scott Rasmussen’s RMG Research survey actively disagree with the sentiment.

“It is hard to imagine a greater threat to democracy than expressing a desire to have your political opponent murdered,” Rasmussen said.

Forty-nine percent of Democrats also buy into conspiracy theories that it is at least somewhat likely that Trump or the Trump campaign was involved in the assassination attempt.

RADICALIZATION.

On Sunday, President Trump was targeted at his West Palm Beach, Florida golf course. Suspect Ryan Routh, a Democrat donor with strong links to Ukraine, allegedly lurked in the bushes of the Trump International Golf Club with a scoped SKS rifle—common in Ukraine and other former Soviet Socialist Republics—before being spotted by the Secret Service agents.

Trump appears to have been within the effective range of the would-be assassin when agents noticed him. They opened fire on Routh but did not strike him, and he was able to escape in a nearby car, although local law enforcement eventually tracked him down.

President Trump believes the “highly inflammatory rhetoric” against him from Kamala Harris and Joe Biden radicalized the Florida gunman and another would-be assassin in Butler, Pennsylvania, who managed to shoot the America First leader in the ear and kill or injure several of his supporters in July.

During the debate between Trump and Harris, the Vice President claimed there would be “no guardrails” to restrain a second Trump administration and that “It’s up to the American people to stop him.”

“These are the things that dangerous fools like the shooter listen to. That is the rhetoric they listen to, and the same with the first one,” Trump said following Routh’s arrest.

Source: RMG Reseach via Napolitan News Service.
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Twenty-eight percent of Democrats believe "America [would] be better off if Donald Trump had been killed last weekend," and another 25 percent are "not sure." Fewer than half of Democrat respondents to Scott Rasmussen's RMG Research survey actively disagree with the sentiment. show more
September 20, 2024
Wake Up Right
Crime
SCOTUS

Democrat Threatens to Kill Supreme Court Justices.

A Democrat donor has been arrested for making repeated threats against the six conservative Supreme Court justices.

The details: The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced it had arrested 76-year-old Panos Anastasiou for sending more than 465 threatening messages to six Supreme Court justices. (It does not name them, but it is implied it the six conservatives.)

The messages: They began on March 10, 2023, and continued through July 16, 2024. The DOJ says they “escalated to messages intending to threaten harm toward the victims” and “contained violent, racist, and homophobic rhetoric coupled with threats of assassination by torture, hanging, and firearms.”

The intent: The DOJ claims Anastasiou sent his threats in response to the court’s decisions he did not agree with and meant to “intimidate Supreme Court Justices 1-6 and retaliate against them.”

Democrat donor: FEC records show Anastasiou donated more than 80 times to Democrat politicians and left-wing causes.

The charges: Anastasiou faces up to 155 years in prison for nine counts of making threats against federal judges as well as 13 counts of threats via interstate commerce.

Zoom out: Kamala Harris has repeatedly attacked the Supreme Court in recent years and even suggested she’d support Constitutional amendments to change it.

Big picture: There is an epidemic of left-wing violence against conservatives — from the two assassination attempts on Donald Trump to the transgender person who murdered children at a Christian school in Nashville last year. All the while, the Democrats insist the greatest threat our country faces is “right-wing extremists.”

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A Democrat donor has been arrested for making repeated threats against the six conservative Supreme Court justices. show more