Ryan Wesley Routh, 58, the alleged attempted assassin who was apprehended Sunday after trying to kill former President Donald Trump, reportedly had a Harris-Biden bumper sticker on a truck outside his home in Hawaii.
The New York Post reported:
The alleged gunman who targeted former President Trump had a Biden-Harris bumper sticker on the back of a pickup truck at his home in Kaaawa, Hawaii.
Ryan Wesley Routh, 58, frequently posted about politics online and has exclusively donated to Democratic candidates and causes since 2019.
Getty Images published a photograph of Routh’s home in which the truck, with the bumper sticker, are visible below.
The house of Ryan Wesley Routh, the man arrested in connection with the apparent assesination attempt against former US President Trump in his golf course is seen on September 15, 2024 in Kaaawa, a small town located on the windward side of the island of Oahu, Hawaii. US media named Ryan Wesley Routh, whom AFP interviewed in Kyiv in 2022 where he had travelled to support the war effort, as the suspected would-be assassin of Donald Trump. (Photo by Eugene TANNER / AFP) (Photo by EUGENE TANNER/AFP via Getty Images)
The attempted assassination against Trump was the second in just over two months. In the first attempt, the gunman, Thomas Matthew Crooks, had virtually no social media profile; in this case, Routh was a leftist who hated Trump and supported Kamala Harris.
He was also obsessed with the Ukraine War — on the Ukrainian side — and was interviewed by the New York Times about his efforts to recruit volunteers to travel to Ukraine to fight against Russia in the war.
Politicians across the spectrum condemned the attempted assassination, though the media continued Sunday to blame Trump, and not Democrats, for supposedly inflammatory rhetoric that, they said, were responsible for political violence. Not one media outlet examined its own rhetoric or that of Kamala Harris and the Democrats against Trump.
Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News and the host of Breitbart News Sunday on Sirius XM Patriot on Sunday evenings from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. ET (4 p.m. to 7 p.m. PT). He is the author of The Agenda: What Trump Should Do in His First 100 Days, available for pre-order on Amazon. He is also the author of The Trumpian Virtues: The Lessons and Legacy of Donald Trump’s Presidency, now available on Audible. He is a winner of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. Follow him on Twitter at @joelpollak.
