Suspect in Trump Golf Course Incident Had Ambiguous Politics

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

37% : He described himself as someone who once voted for Trump but whose optimism had since soured.
30% : Voting with Trump (presumably in 2016 and/or 2020) does not align with the North Carolina records.
26% : As with the attempted assassination of Trump two months earlier in Butler, Pennsylvania, pundits from both sides of the political spectrum posted claims that Routh's politics were opposite their own: Democrats called him a Republican, while Republicans called him a Democrat.
24% : News of the incident, which law enforcement officials said was possibly a foiled attempt to assassinate Trump, spread like wildfire online.
21% : According to the article, Routh wrote in the book that Iran was "free to assassinate Trump," and called the former president a "fool" and "buffoon."
12% : Although Routh's various social media accounts have since been deleted, reputable news outlets who looked into them reported that Routh had posts both supporting and opposing Trump (again, whether he voted for Trump is unconfirmed) and that he had turned strongly against the former president in recent years.

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