Federal authorities apprehended the son of an almost Trump assassin on child pornography charges.
Son of would-be Trump assassin behind bars
The FBI uncovered numerous files containing child pornography during their search of Oran Routh’s residence, son of Ryan Routh, on Saturday.
58-year-old Ryan Routh, a convicted felon, who has been previously arrested 74 times, is being held without bail until his September 30 arraignment.
According to a letter he wrote to a friend, the elder Routh planned the hit on Trump for months, before allegedly shoved the muzzle of a rifle through the fence surrounding Trump’s West Palm Beach golf course, where the former president was playing a round.
After his father was arrested on September 15, after being shot at by Secret Service agents, Oran Routh’s home was searched in connection to his father’s alleged crime.
When authorities served a warrant at his home, they were stunned to find hundreds of digital files containing child exploitation, rather than the evidence they had actually sought.
Authorities find vile criminal evidence
The illicit content was found on two cellphones at the residence, one directly on Routh and another in a bedroom.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Carolina revealed the SD card in one of the devices held hundreds of child pornography files, including videos from a known series produced outside North Carolina.
The criminal complaint detailed that the materials involved girls as young as six years old.
Oran Routh faces charges of receiving and possessing child pornography, and is set to appear in federal court on Tuesday.
After his father’s alleged assassination attempt on Trump, Oran stated in an interview that “every reasonable person” despises Trump.
He added, “If my father wants to be a martyr to how broken and disassociated the process has become from the real problems and practical solutions, then that’s his choice.”
“I’m not saying that’s what he’s done or what he’s about, that’s just my own rant being fed up with it all for my entire adult life.” Routh continued.
Wannabe Trump assassin behind bars
Elsewhere, an Idaho man was charged with making multiple assassination threats against Trump, according to a criminal complaint.
Two weeks after a failed attempt on Trump’s life in Butler, Pennsylvania, 64-year-old Warren Jones Crazybull threatened to kill Trump in a phone call to Mar-a-Lago on July 31.
Crazybull allegedly said, “Find Trump … I am coming down to Bedminster tomorrow. I am going to down him personally and kill him,” during the call, as documented in the Department of Justice complaint. The Trump National Golf Club is in Bedminster, New Jersey.
Crazybull, is accused of making no less than nine phone calls to Trump’s Florida residence threatening assassination.
He also allegedly posted violent threats against Trump on Facebook using the alias “Tracy Jones,” per court documents.
One Facebook post allegedly read, “I start driving to the home of this multi-person rapist PIG TRUMP to take him down single combat,” and another stated, “I’m coming for you Trump.”
His posts also mentioned convicted felon Jeffrey Epstein, “John John Kennedy Jr.,” and a “shadow government,” the criminal complaint stated.
The Secret Service was able to locate Crazybull to Montana using T-Mobile data from his cell phone.
When interviewed, agents observed he appeared “racing” and “confused” in his thought processes, and seemed “paranoid.”
He told investigators he would not attempt to kill Trump but claimed he would “not let” Trump get back into office.
Crazybull blamed Trump and former President John F. Kennedy for broken treaties resulting in the loss of his land, per the affidavit.
The suspect had reportedly been admitted for psychiatric care previously.
Crazybull was arrested on August 1 and indicted on August 20 in federal court in Idaho.
He pleaded not guilty to one count of making threats against a former president.
The maximum penalty for this offense is five years in prison, with a trial scheduled for October 28.
