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Ryan Routh, suspected of a scheme to assassinate President Donald Trump while he was running for office last year, reportedly tried to buy a rocket launcher at that time.
Reports confirm that the Department of Justice has revealed Routh was trying to get "military weapons" from Ukraine at the time he allegedly was involved in the assassination scheme, which ultimately failed.
He's accused of claiming that Trump would be "bad" for Ukraine and that weapons of war get lost "all the time."
The issue over whether Ukraine knew of the scheme, and whether anyone in the United States was warned, is "absolutely massive."
According to a report at Fox News, Routh allegedly told an associate "Send me a RPG [rocket-propelled grenade] or stinger, and I will see what we can do… [Trump] is not good for Ukraine."
The details come from court documents in the case.
Amid discussions about the possible purchase, Routh said, "I need equipment so that Trump cannot get elected."
Further, prosecutors explained Routh sent his "associate" an image of President Trump's plane, and said, "Trump's plane, he gets on and off daily."
The case also now includes a 13-page motion claiming police used "impermissibly suggestive" tactics when interviewing witnesses.
"They claim the witness felt pressured to identify Routh because of the intense atmosphere created by the presence of multiple law enforcement agencies," the report said.
Authorities charge that the plot had been planned for months. Routh is accused of hiding at the Trump International Golf Course West Palm Beach with a rifle, backpack, and shopping bag, both of which contained plates that could stop small arms fire.
Prosecutors also charge he tried to buy a .50 caliber sniper rifle at the time.
After he concealed himself at the golf course, he was spotted by Secret Service agents, before Trump approached.
When confronted, he fled, leaving behind his rifle, and he was arrested miles away.
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Leftists long have given evidence of their advocacy for extreme violence: Consider the billions of dollars in damages Antifa and Black Lives Matter inflicted on American cities following George Floyd's death.
Whole city blocks were torched, businesses destroyed, buildings incinerated, and people died.
Or their long record of rioting on university campuses with the goal of silencing speech and speakers with whom they disagree.
And now it's gotten worse: A new study reveals that "the unhinged left, fueled by Trump Derangement Syndrome and seething hatred for Elon Musk," is growing, and political violence against leftists' opponents is being "normalized."
A report at the Federalist explains the results are from the work of the Network of Contagion Research Institute in partnership with Rutgers University's Social Perception Lab.
That result is a finding that a broader "assassination culture" is "emerging within segments of the U.S.
It was not even a year ago that in two different incidents, assassins tried to take out President Trump, who then was a candidate for his second term in office. He was injured in one attack.
"These attitudes are not fringe – they reflect an emergent assassination culture, grounded in far-left authoritarianism and increasingly normalized in digital discourse," the report, "Assassination Culture: How Burning Teslas and Killing Billionaires Became a Meme Aesthetic for Political Violence," warns.
The report follows several others that explained how social media narratives "were legitimizing political violence, including assassination…"
The report states that 31% and 38% of respondents said it would be at least somewhat justified to murder Elon Musk and President Trump, respectively.
Musk is the head of the President's Department of Government Efficiency and has been working under Trump's instructions to find and eliminate waste, fraud, corruption, and criminality in the federal government's spending.
The report noted, "These effects were largely driven by respondents that self-identified as left of center, with 48% and 55% at least somewhat justifying murder for Elon Musk and President Trump, respectively, indicating significantly higher justification for violence against these figures."
Nearly 40% say it is "at least somewhat acceptable (or more) to destroy a Tesla dealership" in a protest, the report said.
Outright lobbying, and demands, for violence, are growing, the report said.
"In February, law enforcement officials charged 28-year-old David Allen June Cherry of southern Indiana with felony intimidation after police say he posted online multiple violent threats against Elon Musk, including that Cherry would 'gut' the close adviser to President Donald Trump. 'You've broken the law. You're on the hit list,' Cherry allegedly declared on the Musk-owned social media platform X, to a Musk post, according to an affidavit. 'You're robbing American people. We will gut you and parade your corpse in the streets,' the leftist allegedly menaced Musk a short time later."
Further, a man from Tennessee was upset with Trump and Musk and was arrested on charges of assembling explosives to "burn down" a Musk data center in that state, the report said.
There have been dozens of violent attacks on Tesla EVs, dealerships, and charging stations, too.
And, the Federalist notes, "While threats and acts of violence rise on the left, the silence from Democrats in power is deafening. But we've seen this movie before. Spoiler Alert: It doesn't end well for a lot of innocent people."
NCRI stated, "Unless political and cultural leadership explicitly confronts and condemns this trend, NCRI assesses a growing probability of real-world escalation. Given the current economic volatility and institutional distrust, the online normalization of political violence may increasingly translate into offline action."
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There's no lack of evidence for the extreme brutality of Islamic jihadists.
On that Oct. 7, 2023, day that members of Hamas invaded Israel, they burned whole families together, abused victims, then murdered them, and more.
Evidence already was abundant that similar events were occurring in Africa.
Charles Jacobs, the chief of the African Jewish Alliance, and Uzay Bulut, a distinguished senior fellow at the Gatestone Institute, have documented how jihadists, those extreme advocates for Islam, are "murdering, raping, torturing, kidnapping, enslaving, and, in some instances, burning people alive," across Africa.
And now reports of the mayhem of the worst kind are coming in from Syria.
The death toll there is at 7,000 following jihad attacks on Christians and Alawites, who have suffered and died in "cruel, sadistic" ways, according to a new report.
"Christians, Druze, and Yazidis in Syria, like their non-Muslim or non-Arabized counterparts in Africa, fear they may be next," the report explains.
The violence is because of the takeover of Syria by the al-Qaida-affiliated Hayat Tahrir al-Sham terrorists, led by Ahmed Hussein al Sharaa, who conquered Damascus in December 2024.
The report explains they are going "from door to door in western Syria and massacring religious minorities in cruel, sadistic ways. Social media posts show Alawite men, women, and children shot at close range. According to Greek Member of the European Parliament Nikolas Farantouris, who recently visited Syria, 'Reliable data indicate 7,000 massacres of Christians and Alawites and unprecedented atrocities against civilians.' The death toll is still rising."
It's just the latest location for homicidal maniacs, the report said.
"For years now, in at least 12 countries in Africa, jihad has been spreading. Local jihadist organizations go by different names, but the ideology that drives them is the same: Every one of them deeply believes that Allah wants him to wipe the world clean of the kuffar (infidels). In Nigeria, Sudan, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Burkina Faso, Central African Republic, Cameroon, Niger, Somalia, Mozambique and Libya, among others, Islamic militants massacre civilians, the vast majority of whom are Christians, leading to widespread terror, insecurity and displacement," the report said.
So far, "More than 16.2 million Christians in Sub-Saharan Africa have been driven from their homes by jihadi violence and conflict, reports the human rights organization Open Doors. Such violence includes murder, physical injury, rape, abduction, theft of property, and destruction of homes and farmland."
Women and girls, especially, are a target, with attackers forcing them into "marriage," conversion to Islam, then raping and forced labor.
Just in February, the report said, 70 Christians were beheaded by jihadists in the Congo.
Anything Christian, churches, homes, schools, businesses, are targets.
From January to June of 2024, Islamic militants murdered 639 Christians in various incidents, including beheadings and shootings, according to a report released by the Middle East Media Research Institute.
In Sudan, attackers are known for committing sexual violence on a large scale, including sexual slavery and reports reveal more than 150,000 civilians are estimated to have perished in the years-long war.
In Libya, video evidence confirms the "auction" of Africans in areas where Islamic law is upheld and the death penalty for converting from Islam to Christianity.
Boko Haram and the Islamic State West African Province attacked innocents in Cameroon's Far North region, with churches burned and church leaders kidnapped.
The report describes that in Somalia, "no area is safe for Christians," and in Burkina Faso, Christians are fleeing from the rise of Islam.
Nigeria sees raids by Muslim Fulani militants in "shockingly brutal attacks."
Few criminal offenses are more jarring than those committed against minors, a scenario made all the more appalling when the person accused of committing them has been a prominent member of the legal and political communities.
As the Daily Caller reports, it was revealed this week that Robert LeBlanc of Methuen, Massachusetts, a longtime attorney, public official, and now-resigned member of the Democratic State Committee, has been charged with multiple sex offenses after years of rumors regarding inappropriate conduct.
The charges leveled against LeBlanc, 80, were announced on Wednesday by the Essex County Office of the District Attorney.
According to a prosecution press release, LeBlanc was arraigned in Salem's Superior Court on multiple counts related to “child rape and indecent assault.”
LeBlanc has been charged with “rape of a child, indecent assault and battery on a child under 14, two counts of indecent assault and battery on a person 14 or older and attempt to commit crime -- indecent assault and battery on a person 14 or older.”
For his part, LeBlanc pleaded not guilty to the aforementioned charges.
As NBC 10 in Boston noted, prosecutors did not ask that monetary terms of bail be imposed, though they did ask for a series of conditions related to LeBlanc's status to which his defense attorney agreed.
According to the Eagle-Tribune, LeBlanc has a lengthy history of public-facing roles, including his work as an attorney.
LeBlanc was the Methuen town manager from 1976-1981, served two terms as an at-large city councilor in the 1980s, and he also worked as a lawyer for the Massachusetts Democratic Party.
Though he sought an at-large councilor spot again in 2013, LeBlanc was defeated as sexual misconduct allegations began to surface.
Allegations against LeBlanc included claims that he “stalked” and propositioned a student at Greater Lawrence Technical School, resulting in a ban on his return to campus property.
In 2002, LeBlanc was sent a letter informing him of a similar ban at a Barnes & Noble bookstore stemming from an incident in which a customer said he was followed into a restroom by the former public official, who was alleged to have stationed himself near a urinal and touched himself inappropriately.
After the aforementioned charges were issued, LeBlanc was ordered to report to the Methuen Police Department for booking, and he was also instructed not to have any contact with victims or witnesses in the case or any unsupervised contact with individuals under the age of 18.
A pretrial hearing for LeBlanc is now scheduled for May 20, when additional details of the accusations against him are likely to emerge.
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Leftists recently attacked and destroyed a display assembled by Turning Point USA for students at the campus of the University of California-Davis.
While cops stood by and watched.
TPUSA said, "Our 'Prove Me Wrong' tabling event with @TheOfficerTatum at UC Davis was completely destroyed by violent protesters. They stole the canopy, ripped down banners, smashed foam boards, and even tried to steal the iPad and laptop of a @tpusastudents field rep. TPUSA students were shoved and had objects thrown at them—while police did nothing. Only after the damage was done did law enforcement finally form a perimeter. This is the reality of free speech on campus."
Constitutional expert Jonathan Turley, who has advised Congress on the Constitution, and even represented Congress on constitutional issues, had a comment: "A mob of roughly 30 masked protesters at UC Davis attacked a tent for a conservative student group, the UC Davis chapter of Turning Point USA. It proceeded to destroy the tent and displays without any intervention from campus police, who were shown standing nearby."
He noted the police "followed the rampaging mob and did not attempt to detain anyone. The mob appears to have been led by Antifa members, a violent anti-free speech group."
He continued, "The university said in a news release that it is investigating. However, the university insisted, 'The event with the guest speaker took place on schedule and was completed without further incident. The university protected the free speech rights of the campus community throughout the event. 'Without further incident' has that feel of asking 'other than that, how was the play, Mrs. Lincoln?'"
He wondered if the school would review "why the campus police stood and watched these protesters assault students and tear down a tent without trying to detain a single person."
He warned, "Political violence from the left is on the rise across the nation, fueled by the rage rhetoric of Democratic leaders and commentators."
And he said Antifa is a threat to free speech.
"Some Democrats have played a dangerous game in supporting or excusing the work of Antifa. Former Democratic National Committee deputy chair Keith Ellison, now the Minnesota attorney general, once said Antifa would 'strike fear in the heart' of Trump. This was after Antifa had been involved in numerous acts of violence and its website was banned in Germany," he said.
In fact, Ellison's son, Minneapolis City Council member Jeremiah Ellison, "declared his allegiance to Antifa in the heat of the protests this summer," Turley noted.
To such leftists, he said, free speech is "merely a bourgeois fantasy unworthy of consideration."
He warned that events like those at UC-Davis "will only encourage further attacks."
Nashville's police investigation into the Covenant School shooting has concluded that while the shooter had radical beliefs, her primary motive was a desire for notoriety.
The report, released over two years after the March 2023 attack, clarified that the shooter’s choice of Covenant School as a target was driven by her pursuit of fame, not her animosity towards Christianity or privileged racial groups.
The tragic event resulted in the deaths of six individuals, including three children and three adults. The 28-year-old attacker was found to have harbored radical thoughts concerning gender identity and white privilege, but police determined these beliefs did not influence her choice of venue. Instead, she aimed to garner attention by selecting a school likely to shock the public due to the young age of the victims.
The victims of this shooting included children Evelyn Dieckhaus, Hallie Scruggs, and William Kinney and adults Michael Hill, Katherine Koonce, and Cynthia Peak. Investigators noted that the shooter identified as male, using he/him pronouns, but was biologically female her whole life. According to the report, there was no evidence of any medical transition.
Investigators discovered journal entries depicting the attacker’s struggle with her gender identity and frustrations about puberty. Despite expressing hatred toward Christianity and white privilege in 16 notebooks, these writings did not amount to a manifesto. Authorities concluded that the shooter's notoriety-seeking ambitions were the prime motivator.
The police report further established that the attacker had mental health disorders but was found sane and capable of comprehending the moral and legal consequences of her actions. She initiated fantasies of a school shooting in 2017 and began formulating plans in 2018. Various locations were considered as potential targets, including schools and malls.
Years of preparation culminated in a reconnaissance visit to Covenant School in September 2021. The investigation revealed she was meticulous in her planning, adjusting her strategies and manipulating perceptions to appear non-threatening. It was during this period that her family became aware of her intentions, intervening by confiscating her firearms. However, the intervention failed to prevent her from eventually carrying out the attack.
Authorities discovered no hostility from peers or examples of bullying during her time at The Covenant School. On the contrary, she established friendships and enjoyed play dates, illustrating a sense of acceptance rather than alienation.
In analyzing her written materials, police found no conclusive motivations tied to racial, religious, or economic factors. This finding is reflected in the police statement, acknowledging speculation about these potential motives but dismissing them in the context of her decision to attack the school.
Investigators observed that in her journals, she mentioned feeling alone and ostracized, perceiving herself as shunned by society. In her quest for recognition, she expressed a desire to force people to notice her by committing a violent act against children.
Ultimately, the police report concludes that the shooter was driven by a desire to be noticed and not by a personal vendetta against any religious or racial group. Nashville authorities decisively closed the investigation, with no other individuals found responsible for the crime.
The release of this report sheds light on the complex interplay of personal struggles, mental health issues, and a quest for notoriety that guided the attacker's lethal actions. Through this comprehensive analysis, Nashville police aim to present a fuller understanding of the motivations behind a tragedy that shocked the community.
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'The real concern for the State Department was one concerning public relations and how it might look in the media'
The Joe Biden administration "completely ignored" a government official's warning that his plan to pull American troops out of Afghanistan abruptly would "almost certainly result in an extreme loss of morale among the Afghan military and that the territorial gains of the Taliban indicated the current government would likely collapse after the withdrawal…"
Which is what happened.
The report comes from the American Center for Law and Justice which pursued Freedom of Information Act projects after Biden's orders cost the lives of 13 American soldiers during that pullout, as well as the lives of 170 Afghan civilians.
Further, Biden ordered left behind for the Taliban to take over U.S. military bases and billions of dollars worth of American war machinery, some of which now has been sold to other terror organizations around the world.
"We have uncovered that the dissent cable appears to have been completely ignored in principle. This particular cable warned that the current U.S. withdrawal plan would almost certainly result in an extreme loss of morale among the Afghan military and that the territorial gains of the Taliban indicated the current government would likely collapse after the withdrawal was complete," the organization reported.
It explained such a cable is the "last resort" for a foreign service officer whose warnings about a situation have not been considered.
"They can send a dissent cable directly to leadership in the State Department. That's what happened, and the warning was still clearly ignored by Biden's top officials," the report said.
"The State Department repeatedly claimed that Secretary [Antony] Blinken had seen the cable, but there was no indication that anyone else did. But at this point, we know that Deputy Secretary Sherman, Deputy Secretary McKeon, and Under Secretary Nuland received the dissent cable on July 13, 2021," the ACLJ reported.
They all reported to Blinken, who was to report to the president, the report said.
"So, what was the response after receiving such dire news via the dissent cable prior to the imminent withdrawal from Afghanistan? Was it candid advice to the secretary? No. Nor was it a reconsideration of the advice provided to the president, nor a proposal to change or modify the withdrawal," the ACLJ explained.
Instead, the Deep State at State inquired, "Please let me know if you would like to provide initial guidance to shape our response on this matter."
The ACLJ explained, "The real concern for the State Department was one concerning public relations and how it might look in the media ('shape our response') and not actually addressing the very real concerns expressed in the dissent cable.
"The contents of these documents should deeply concern every American. They reveal the troubling actions of a misguided administration; and to this day, no one has been held accountable for the disastrous withdrawal. This serves as a stark reminder that, as commander in chief, President Biden bears the ultimate responsibility for the U.S. military's actions."
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Democrats in the state of Colorado are working hard to make it a crime to call a man by his name. Or call a woman by her name.
Instead, they want to demand that men who say they are women, or vice versa, be addressed by a new name they have chosen.
In fact, they want to make it a state "discrimination" offense to use the person's legal name.
It's all part of the radical transgender ideology Democrats in the state have promoted, a campaign that aligned with Joe Biden's official practice in the White House to promote transgenderism worldwide. President Donald Trump reversed that upon taking office, deciding that the U.S. government recognizes only two genders, male and female.
A report in the Washington Examiner explains some Democrats in Colorado's legislature have proposed a law to require courts to consider "deadnaming" and "misgendering" in court battles regarding child custody.
State Sens. Faith Winter and Chris Kolker and state Reps. Lorena Garcia and Rebekah Stewart, all Democrats, are pushing for their social agenda in the plan.
"The legislation claims to strengthen legal protections for transgender people, including adding to prior laws that it is 'discriminatory practice and unlawful to, with specific intent to discriminate, publish materials that deadname or misgender an individual' in places of public accommodation."
So-called deadnaming is using a person's legal name instead of a different moniker they have chosen.
The Democrats also would order courts to take into account "deadnaming, misgendering, or threatening to publish material related to an individual's gender-affirming health-care services as types of coercive control."
They want to ban courts from "applying or giving any force or effect to another state's law that authorizes a state agency to remove a child from the child's parent or guardian because the parent or guardian allowed the child to receive gender-affirming health-care services."
The leftist Democrats in California, the Examiner report noted, already adopted similar transgender ideology demands, but Gov. Gavin Newsom, also a Democrat, vetoed that plan.
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Urges Republicans to 'defund and totally disassociate themselves' from radical Left
President Donald Trump is ferociously attacking National Public Radio and the Public Broadcasting System, using all capital letters online to call them "radical left monsters."
"REPUBLICANS MUST DEFUND AND TOTALLY DISASSOCIATE THEMSELVES FROM NPR & PBS, THE RADICAL LEFT 'MONSTERS' THAT SO BADLY HURT OUR COUNTRY!" Trump figuratively shouted Tuesday on Truth Social.
This is not the first time Trump has addressed the issue of the publicly funded networks which hold a left-leaning political bias.
During a March 25 Cabinet meeting, the president was asked outright if he'd like to see public broadcasting as a whole defunded.
"I would love to do that. I think it's very unfair, it's been very biased, the whole group of them," Trump said.
"There's plenty of coverage. That was from a different age and they spend more money than any other network of its type ever conceived. So the kind of money that's being wasted, and it's a very biased view. … And I'd be honored to see it end."
In a March 27 post on Truth Social, Trump said both "NPR and PBS, two horrible and completely biased platforms (Networks!) , should be DEFUNDED by Congress IMMEDIATELY."
Trump's call came in the wake of NPR CEO Katherine Maher's embarrassing testimony before Congress as she tried to distance herself from radical notions she promoted, including that America was addicted to white supremacy.
"I believe that I tweeted that, and as I said earlier, I believe that much of my thinking has evolved over the last half-decade," Maher told U.S. Rep. Brandon Gill, R-Texas.
The congressman also posted a video from the Media Research Center of some of the most hateful comments NPR and PBS have broadcast over the years.
Attorney General Pam Bondi said Monday that Cooper Jo Frederick had been federally charged after allegedly firebombing a Colorado Tesla dealership, Breitbart reported.
The 24-year-old Colorado man was charged as an accomplice to a gender-confused man called "Lucy Gray Nelson," who was already charged in the incident.
"I've made it clear: If you take part in the wave of domestic terrorism against Tesla properties, we will find you, arrest you, and put you behind bars," Bondi said in a video posted to X, formerly Twitter, Monday. The incident took place on March 7 in Loveland, Colorado.
"All of these cases are a serious threat to public safety. Therefore, there will be no negotiationing. We are seeking 20 years in prison," Bondi added.
BREAKING: AG Pam Bondi announces charges against Cooper Frederick for allegedly firebombing a Tesla dealership in Loveland, Colorado.
He faces up to 20 years in prison.
“You can run, but you cannot hide. Justice is coming.” - Pam Bondi pic.twitter.com/bokiqk7nga
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) March 31, 2025
Nelson was federally charged earlier this month for firebombing the dealership using Molotov cocktails. He was hit with attempted malicious destruction of property and possession of an unregistered firearm in addition to state charges.
Frederick was allegedly part of the attack that also included graffiti and throwing rocks at the dealership's vehicles and building. He was arrested in Colorado on March 14 and charged with using an incendiary device in a felony, one count of manufacturing an incendiary device, two counts of possessing an incendiary device, and criminal mischief causing $5,000 to $20,000 in damage.
After an FBI investigation, Frederick was picked up again in Plano, Texas, for the federal charges. The alleged attack is just one of several coordinated incidents that have taken place at Tesla dealerships as part of a protest movement against Elon Musk.
The Tesla CEO is part of President Donald Trump's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), which has been rooting out fraud and abuse in the government. According to CNN, more than 200 protests occurred throughout the U.S. in a Global Day of Action against Musk.
Musk's detractors have made all sorts of vague claims about his involvement in the endeavor and his possible motives. "It’s unfortunate that Musk has decided to use his power and riches for negative efforts," protest promoter Austin Naughton claimed.
While some touted these peaceful protests, it became clear that the movement also spawned attacks. According to a Fox News report, there have been at least 50 incidents of violence against Tesla dealerships, vehicles, and charging stations in the U.S., plus another 17 internationally.
The attacks are sometimes carried out by individuals, with an opportunistic attacker keying a vehicle or otherwise vandalizing it. One common occurrence is for them to mark vehicles with swastikas or the word "Nazi" as a misguided affront to Musk.
Others are more severe, such as people shooting at vehicles or lighting them on fire. One man was caught ramming his four-wheeler into a stranger's Tesla vehicle and damaging two others.
Of all the violence and mayhem leftists have encouraged, these attacks are the most confounding. Musk hasn't been doing anything remotely controversial to anyone sane, yet they are being mobilized on a faulty premise to express their misdirected ire.
It's perfectly reasonable for Bondi to treat these people like the terrorists they are. This kind of conduct cannot continue in a civilized nation, and certainly not when it is encouraged based on lies and falsehoods specifically for the purpose of eliciting such a response.