Ryan Routh, who is charged in the second assassination attempt on Donald Trump, tied himself to the president-elect’s other would-be assassin, Thomas Crooks, in a bizarre letter from jail — in which he also ranted about the “two-party system.”
Routh 58, sent the letter to Politico reporter Ankush Khardori from a federal detention center in Miami where he is awaiting trial after he allegedly tried to take out Trump at his Florida golf course earlier this year.
In the four-page letter, in which Routh refers to himself several times as the “Alleged Trump shooter,” he railed against the US’s two-party system and emphasized that he has no affiliation with the Democratic Party — despite clear contempt for Trump, whom he called a “dictator.”
At one point in the letter, Routh links himself to Crooks — who nicked Trump in the ear while he was speaking at a campaign event in Pennsylvania in July before he was shot dead by Secret Service agents.
Routh, despite pleading not guilty in his own alleged assassination attempt, described them both as being “ready to die for freedom and democracy.”
In the letter, which was written before the election, Routh said that if Trump were to win, the country must “remove the power of our military by the President and place it with Congress before January.
“We must limit all Presidential power before Trump seizes our country,” he added.
If Vice President Kamala Harris were to win, Routh called on Americans to surround the Capitol to prevent another Jan. 6 situation and considered the real possibility of “civil war.”
