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Maryam Khanum

Alleged Trump Shooter Ryan Routh Makes Eerie Connection to First Attempted Assassin Matthew Crooks in New Jailhouse Letter

Screengrab taken from AFPTV on September 16, 2024, showing Ryan Wesley Routh speaking during an interview at a pro-Ukraine rally. (Credit: AFP)

The man who allegedly attempted to assassinate then-presidential candidate Donald Trump back in September explicated his political beliefs in a recently published letter in which he even compares himself to the perpetrator of the first attempt on Trump's life, Thomas Matthew Crooks.

Routh allegedly sent a four-page letter to Ankush Khardori, a senior POLITICO writer and former federal prosecutor, in which he repeatedly references the attempt to assassinate Trump at his golf club in West Palm Beach, Florida.

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