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Who Bankrolled Routh? Jim Rickards Worries Whether Trump Will Make It to The Election<\/span><\/p>\n

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Authored by James Rickards via DailyReckoning.com,<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The second assassination attempt on the life of Donald Trump in the past two months is already being memory-holed by the mainstream media.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Who\u2019s to blame for the second attempt? Beyond the obvious implications for society as a whole, the latest attempt will have major ramifications for markets and investors.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s because the economic and regulatory policies of the two candidates \u2014 Trump and Harris \u2014 could not be more different.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Trump wants lower taxes, less regulation, high tariffs to create high-paying U.S. jobs (a policy first advocated by Alexander Hamilton and later expanded by Henry Clay and Abraham Lincoln), an end to wars in Ukraine and the Middle East, a strong national defense and reforms to the FBI and the intelligence community (IC).<\/p>\n

Harris wants higher taxes (including much higher capital gains taxes on stock profits), more regulations, open borders (which lowers average wages), a depleted defense posture, permanent wars in Ukraine and the Middle East, censorship of dissenting views (under the false label of \u201cmisinformation\u201d) and a continuation of the weaponized FBI and IC to wage war on domestic political opponents.<\/p>\n

The choice is clear. Yet investors and voters won\u2019t have that choice if Trump is killed.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Increasingly, it appears that the U.S. government operating through the Secret Service, FBI and CIA is at least complicit in the Trump assassination attempts.<\/p>\n

They may be actively creating the conditions for an assassination through intentional gross negligence by Trump\u2019s security detail and nurturing mentally deranged Trump-haters in a way that leads directly to the sniper\u2019s nest.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s explore these claims in detail.<\/p>\n

The last attempted assassination of a president was the shooting of President Reagan on March 30, 1981, over 43 years ago. The last attempt before that was a shooting aimed at President Ford on Sept. 22, 1975, 49 years ago.<\/p>\n

Of course, President John F. Kennedy was killed by an assassin on Nov. 22, 1963, almost 61 years ago.<\/p>\n

That makes two shootings and one assassination of U.S. presidents in the past\u00a061 years<\/em>\u00a0prior to July 13, 2024. President Trump has been the victim of two assassination attempts in the past 80\u00a0days<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Something is seriously wrong with that timeline. One is reminded of the Ian Fleming quote from his James Bond novel\u00a0Goldfinger<\/em>: \u201cOnce is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.\u201d<\/p>\n

I\u2019m willing to shorten Fleming\u2019s timeline in the case of Trump \u2014 Twice is enemy action.<\/p>\n

At this point, it\u2019s fair to conclude that the U.S. Secret Service (USSS) is complicit in the Trump assassination attempts.<\/p>\n

The security failures at the Butler, Pennsylvania, rally site last July are well-known at this point and don\u2019t have to be repeated at length.<\/p>\n

The USSS failed to secure the perimeter, failed to secure the shooter\u2019s rooftop location within 150 yards of Trump\u2019s podium with a clear line of sight and didn\u2019t notice that the shooter was using a rangefinder and a drone to survey the area and that the shooter was clearly visible on his rooftop position with a rifle.<\/p>\n

Attendees at the rally tried to warn the local police and USSS. The local police tried to intervene but fell off the roof ledge when the shooter aimed at them. The USSS ignored the warnings entirely. Then the shooting began.<\/p>\n

That kind of gross negligence is tantamount to saying, \u201cFire away, we won\u2019t stop you\u201d to the thousands of violent and mentally disturbed Trump-haters all over the country.<\/p>\n

The FBI cover-up began almost immediately when the shooter\u2019s body was cremated and the rooftop shooting location was scrubbed clean before intensive forensics could be concluded.<\/p>\n

We still know next to nothing about the shooter, his motivations or his affiliations. We may never know.<\/p>\n

Below, I address the second would-be assassin of Donald Trump. Who is he? Why would he want to kill Trump? Did he have any connections to the intelligence community?<\/p>\n

Read on.<\/p>\n

Who Is Ryan Routh?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The gross negligence continued at the Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Florida, where the second attempted assassination took place. The golf course itself was not secured. The alleged shooter, Ryan Routh, had set up a sniper\u2019s nest in some bushes near the green on the sixth hole.<\/p>\n

Trump was playing on the fairway of the 5th hole when Routh (according to witnesses) was confronted by the USSS who were patrolling one hole ahead of Trump. Routh would have had a clear line of sight to shoot Trump at about 230 yards on the fifth green, 50 yards on the sixth green, and 135 yards on the seventh green.<\/p>\n

According to witnesses and the criminal complaint, Routh was using an SKS-type 7.62\u00d739 caliber long-barreled rifle with a scope. I\u2019ve fired similar weapons and consistently hit the target at 100 yards with no scope and I\u2019m not a highly trained marksman. There would have been no difficulty hitting Trump at the distances noted above using a scope.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s interesting that the rifle is Russian-designed and may have been manufactured in Russia. Was this part of a planned effort to somehow \u201cblame Russia\u201d or show a \u201cRussian connection\u201d once Trump was dead?<\/p>\n

In any case, Trump was minutes away from being killed. Again, the USSS performance was so incompetent that they can fairly be considered accomplices to the attempted assassination even if they didn\u2019t pull the trigger.<\/p>\n

This Guy\u2019s Unbalanced<\/strong><\/h2>\n

In 2002, Routh was convicted of \u201cpossessing a weapon of mass destruction\u201d (a fully automatic machine gun). He was arrested after barricading himself in a shack. He has eight other arrests on his police record.<\/p>\n

Routh went to Ukraine in 2022 to volunteer to fight against Russia. He was rejected because of his age (he\u2019s 58 years old) and complete lack of military experience or training. Routh tweeted extensively about these efforts and gave interviews to\u00a0The New York Times<\/em>\u00a0and many other media outlets.<\/p>\n

Undeterred by the rejection, Routh remained in Kyiv and later Lviv in western Ukraine where he organized a group to recruit foreign fighters to come to Ukraine and fight as mercenaries. His ideas were ridiculous, including attempts to recruit 10,000 Afghani fighters following Biden\u2019s disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan in August 2021. He got no more than a handful of interested parties.<\/p>\n

The International Legion (a true mercenary group with seasoned armed fighters) considered Routh unstable and kept their distance.<\/p>\n

Routh was photographed smiling with members of the Azov Brigade in Ukraine, a self-declared neo-Nazi fighting unit that proudly displays insignia used by the Nazi Waffen-SS in World War II. Routh\u2019s neo-Nazi connections and failure as a Ukrainian recruiter didn\u2019t stop Western media from interviewing him.<\/p>\n

He was held up as an exemplar of U.S. support for Ukraine and the need to do everything possible to help the corrupt Zelenskyy regime. Routh was perfectly in sync with the Biden-Harris propaganda machine generating support for neo-Nazis in Ukraine even though he was regarded by those who knew him as mentally unstable.<\/p>\n

But Routh is not stupid and speaks clearly and grammatically. Instead, his mental illness takes the form of delusional thinking. He talks about the importance of peace, love and understanding among people and then says the way to achieve peace is to take up arms and kill Russians.<\/p>\n

His call for mercenaries from around the world is completely detached from the reality of how mercenary armies actually work.<\/p>\n

The scariest part of Routh\u2019s interviews is that he precisely mimicked the talking points you hear every day from MSNBC and CNN. Routh says that Trump is an existential threat to humanity and a threat to democracy. He says that Trump must be stopped at all costs. He says that Trump is an enemy of peace and freedom.<\/p>\n

Sound familiar? It should. These are exactly the lies and propaganda that corporate media spew every day and have for the past nine years.<\/p>\n

Who Bankrolled Routh?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

MSNBC and CNN and the rest of corporate media put out these lies about Trump as a form of propaganda. The lies are aimed at a target audience of Trump-haters and progressive lightweights.\u00a0Routh was the target audience<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Corporate media are too cowardly to take direct action against Trump. But by putting out propaganda, they hope to trigger those who are prone to such action.<\/p>\n

The triggering propaganda was not limited to the media. Kamala Harris said of Trump, \u201cDoes one of us have to come out alive? Ha, ha, ha, ha!\u201d Joe Biden said, \u201cIt\u2019s time to put Trump in a bull\u2019s-eye.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tim Walz\u2019s wife, Gwen Walz, said, \u201cBuh-bye, Donald Trump.\u201d Democratic member of Congress Dan Goldman said about Trump, \u201cHe is destructive to our democracy and\u2026 he has to be eliminated.\u201d<\/p>\n

I could offer 100 similar quotes but you get the idea. The media class and the political class are calling for Trump to be killed. It\u2019s just a matter of triggering someone to do it. In Routh\u2019s case, he was completely triggered. Then he picked up his rifle.<\/p>\n

Just as the USSS are responsible for letting these assassinations happen, corporate media and many Democrats are responsible for triggering unstable individuals to conduct the assassination attempts.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not a stretch to say the USSS, corporate media and many Democrats are all out to kill Trump. They simply rely on mentally ill zealots to do their wet work.<\/p>\n

Routh told the court on Monday, Sept. 16, that he had no material financial assets and owned no property. The court has appointed a public defender to represent Routh. If he has no assets, how was Routh able to afford his move to Hawaii? His travels to Ukraine? How did he finance his recruiting effort while in Ukraine? Where did he get the rifle? How could he afford to travel to Florida to carry out the assassination plan?<\/p>\n

It seems clear that Routh has a hidden source of financial support. The CIA typically deals in cash while running covert operations. Was Routh a CIA asset turned loose on a rogue mission with a predictable outcome?<\/p>\n

I worked for the CIA for 10 years in various capacities, including special operations. Ukraine has been a CIA outpost since 1991 after the fall of the Soviet Union and the creation of the Russian Federation. Ukraine is riddled with CIA operatives, bioweapons labs and forward-deployed assets intended to destabilize Russia.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s\u00a0impossible<\/em>\u00a0that a high-profile American like Routh could run around Ukraine recruiting mercenaries without coming to the attention of the CIA and coming in direct contact with CIA assets.<\/p>\n

This likely scenario strongly suggests that Routh may have been financed and otherwise assisted by the CIA to carry out his assassination plan. The fact that Routh was using a Russian-designed rifle (which would have been plentiful in Ukraine as Cold War surplus) is another tell.<\/p>\n

The parallels with Lee Harvey Oswald, who was a U.S. defector to the Soviet Union and who later returned to the U.S. and had contacts with anti-Castro Cubans working for the CIA, are too obvious to ignore.<\/p>\n

As for Trump\u2019s so-called protection, why was the golf course not secure? How did Routh set up a sniper\u2019s nest on the sixth hole of the course without being detected until minutes before Trump came into sight?<\/p>\n

Routh stayed in his sniper\u2019s nest for over 12 hours before he was confronted. Why was that area not swept several times in the period? How did Routh even know Trump would be playing golf there that day without a leak from Trump\u2019s security detail?<\/p>\n

These and many other questions need to be answered quickly before the cover-up goes much further. The FBI official in charge of the Florida assassination attempt investigation is Jeffrey Veltri, a notorious Trump-hater who was ordered by the FBI director to scrub his social media accounts of anti-Trump posts.<\/p>\n

One bit of good news is that Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida will be conducting his own state-level investigation with full subpoena power and expert forensics.<\/p>\n

Reduce Stock Exposure<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The corporate media, Democrat politicians, the USSS and other branches of the deep state are largely to blame for these two assassination attempts because of their constantly repeated lies about Trump\u2019s character, political platform and ostensible \u201cthreat to democracy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Calling Trump \u201cHitler\u201d (as the media continually do) offers deranged individuals like Routh a license to kill. In Routh\u2019s case he apparently took up the challenge and almost succeeded.<\/p>\n

Saying the assassination attempt failed is not a source of comfort. One is reminded of the IRA\u2019s near assassination of Margaret Thatcher in the Brighton Grand Hotel bombing in 1984. After the bombing, the IRA boasted to Thatcher: \u201cWe only have to be lucky once, you will have to be lucky always.\u201d In other words, the assassination attempts will keep coming.<\/p>\n

Investors need to prepare for the eventuality of more assassination attempts on Trump and his possible death on the campaign trail. The CIA doesn\u2019t give up on targets that easily. The White House has done nothing to increase Secret Service assets or to improve Trump\u2019s security detail.<\/p>\n

The message to shooters is: \u201cTry your luck.\u201d It\u2019s a good time to reduce stock exposure and increase your allocations to cash and gold.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span>
\nThu, 10\/03\/2024 – 13:25<\/span><\/p>\n

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