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What we know about Trump assassination suspect Routh's party affiliation

Sep 18, 2024 View Original Article
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    10% Center

  • Reliability

    30% ReliableFair

  • Policy Leaning

    10% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    -25% Negative

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

53% : He is also reported to have written on social media that he voted for Trump in 2016.
46% : "Trump will never do anything for them....show the world what compassion and humanity is all about," he wrote in the July 17 post addressed to Harris.
31% : In 2023, he addressed Iran in his self-published book, writing: "You are free to assassinate Trump as well as me.
29% : Besides his changing thoughts on Trump, Routh also expressed inconsistent views about other candidates and political issues, at times supporting Republican or Democratic candidates.
25% : The FBI said in a statement earlier this Sunday that it is "investigating what appears to be an attempted assassination" against Trump.Charlie Collicutt, elections director for Guilford County in North Carolina, told PolitiFact that a person with Routh's name registered in 1988 as a Democrat and changed to unaffiliated in 2002.
24% : The phrase "second Trump shooter" alludes to a different man who shot Trump in July.
24% : You are free to assassinate Trump as well as me for that error in judgment and the dismantling of the deal.
20% : Days after a Pennsylvania gunman shot at Trump, killing rally attendee Corey Comperatore and injuring two others besides the political candidate, Routh wrote two separate posts addressing President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris.
17% : But Oran Routh described his father as someone who hates Trump as he and "every reasonable person does".
2% : He wrote that he previously supported Trump and was partly to blame for Trump's presidency, describing his earlier support for Trump as a "terrible mistake".

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