What We Know -- and Don't Know -- So Far About the Trump Golf Course Shooter

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

43% : "A woman who lived next door to Routh in Greensboro, N.C., and said she's known him for nearly two decades told Fox8 WGHP that he was an unusual character but that she did not expect him to be involved in an attempted assassination of Trump.
33% : Trump will never do anything for them.
31% : The woman, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said Routh owned many guns and that "a lot of people were afraid of him back in the day," but she added: "Him, I mean, trying to shoot Trump.
28% : Routh said he voted for Trump in 2016, according to a June 2020 post on his X (formerly Twitter) account, which has since been suspended: "@realDonaldTrump While you were my choice in 2106 [sic], I and the world hoped that president Trump would be different and better than the candidate, but we all were greatly disappointment and it seems you are getting worse and devolving," he wrote.
24% : In a section about Iran, Routh apologized to the Middle East nation for having previously voted for Trump, whom Routh described as a "retarded child" and said "ended up being brainless" for dismantling the U.S.-Iran nuclear deal.
24% : "You are free to assassinate Trump as well as me for that error in judgment.
18% : Meanwhile, he added of Trump, "this guy's sitting behind his f---ing desk, not doing a goddamn thing."
15% : When Trump was shot during a previous assassination attempt at a rally in Pennsylvania in July, Routh posted on X tagging President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris urging them to visit the rally-goer victims: "You and Biden should visit the injured people in the hospital from the Trump rally and attend the funeral of the murdered fireman.

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