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https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/human-hedgehog-tuesday-september

Failed assassin Ryan Routh was in federal court yesterday, in a hearing quite logically called the “first appearance.” Fox covered the story under the headline, “Trump assassination attempt suspect laughs, smiles during first court appearance in Florida.” Routh was apparently cracking jokes with his public defender, which sounds annoying but could just be his way of managing anxiety.

Details were sparsely provided, but this most interesting paragraph leaped out:

The judge also asked Routh if he was able to afford his own defense attorney or if he
needed a public defender. Routh said he does not have enough income, and when asked
by the judge, said he makes about $3,000 a month, has zero savings and owns zero real
estate. Routh also told the court he has two trucks in Hawaii worth about $1,000 each,
partially supports his 25-year-old son and does not own any jewelry.

Right away, we see some problems. For Portlanders, Routh claimed an annual income of $36,000 — far below the poverty level. Which means there is a lot of mysterious money floating around world-traveling Mr. Routh.

Here are only a few of the many possible questions: how did Routh afford international travel to and from Ukraine? Or to buy guns, body armor, and GoPro cameras? Who owns the Nissan truck he tried to escape in? Did he rent it? If so, with what money and what credit? How did Routh get to Florida? Where was he staying? How was he paying for stuff? Cash? Credit?

How did flat-broke Routh get in front of nearly every corporate media camera and reporter in 2022, from Newsweek to the New York Times?

Routh has an extensive low-level criminal record going back decades, including felony weapons violations. How did he buy the gun he brought to Trump’s golf course? According to the FBI’s criminal affidavit, it was a military SKS-style assault rifle made in former Soviet bloc countries, so it wasn’t from around here. The rifle’s serial number was "obliterated" and unreadable to the naked eye.

Why obliterate the serial number? Who is Routh trying to protect? Who gave him that gun?

We’re not the only ones asking questions. Martin County Sheriff Will Snyder, whose officers arrested Routh, gave a courageous —even reckless— press conference yesterday during which he said the quiet part out loud.

At yesterday’s Martin County press conference about the arrest, Sheriff Snyder wondered whether Routh could be part of a conspiracy:

“He was smart, he was just driving with the flow of traffic. He may have thought he got away with it. He couldn’t have known a witness took a picture.
He’s not from this area. Which raises the bigger question, how does a guy get all the way to Trump International, realize the former President is golfing, and is able to get a rifle into that vicinity?
Is this guy part of a conspiracy? Or a lone gunman? If he’s part of a conspiracy, then this whole thing takes on a really ominous tone.”
It’s a literal conspiracy theory! And Sheriff Snyder’s question was a good one. But, to expand on his theory: was Routh connected in any way to any U.S. security state agency or NGO? To any Ukrainian security or intelligence agency?

Where has that skinny hedge-hider been hanging out recently? And with whom?

So that’s what we know so far on Day Two. From the evolving media coverage, even on Fox, Routh is beginning to be painted like some kind of deranged lunatic. But that is a straw man. Do not buy that story. While there is plenty of evidence he was an amoral leftist, easily influenced, effortlessly manipulable, even criminally inclined, there is zero evidence Routh was clinically crazy.

In fact, it’s just the opposite. Routh appears to have seamlessly navigated complex and difficult life situations —like traveling to and from a war zone, and self-publishing his dumb book on Amazon— that would flummox most of us. He was also vetted by any number of media platforms that found him credible enough to feature in their pro-Ukraine propaganda stories.

In the photo above, failed assassin Routh is pictured with celebrity chef and Nobel Peace Prize nominee Jose Andres. The background of the picture is unclear. But Andres is well-known for leading a team of other celebrity chefs into Gaza to deliver canapes and snail puree to war-torn Palestinians. And he is also well-known for hanging out with Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, and Ukraine’s former comedian Zelensky.

For instance, consider this NBC headline, from April this year:

Biden calls chef José Andrés after Israeli strike kills World Central Kitchen aid workers
National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said the "incident is emblematic of a larger
problem and evidence of why distribution of aid in Gaza has been so challenging."

... What were Nobel-nominee Jose Andres and flat-broke Ryan Routh doing together before and after that widely circulated photo was taken in Kiev, Ukraine? Were they just fellow Proxy War proponents? Did they just attend a proxy war rally together?

Why in the photo was Andres pointing at Routh? Bonhomie? Overcome with camaraderie?

We don’t know. But we do know at least one thing: human hedgehog and media darling Routh enjoys just one thin degree of separation from Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, and Volodymyr Zelensky. Weird.

I saw Governor DeSantis has tasked Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody to investigate the 2nd assassination attempt

This is a very good move as the FBI is just the Democrat Party's Stasi

Lets hope that Moody gains access to enough evidence to stop any politburo-style investigation by the FBI

through the Democrat-media, the FBI is feeding how this assassin is another "disenchanted Republican" and that he was disillusioned with Trump's "right wing and hated-filled rhetoric"

https://nitter.poast.org/MikeBenzCyber/status/1835842473635049485#m

Patrick says

https://nitter.poast.org/MikeBenzCyber/status/1835842473635049485#m

Another broken video, @Patrick

This one is new.

Huh, plays OK for me.

^^^^ @Patrick now it works. Weird.

I think it's another demonstration that Trump likely has ferocious comms. If there were other assassination teams, they were likely taken out with extreme prejudice but the patsy allowed to stand pat as an informatic, as with the previous 'assassination attempt'. Synoptic patsys can be good for white hat side, too, and taking out the larger infrastructure of the assassination attempts in stealth and silence would be a good move. Everybody focuses on the patsy distraction as usual usual.

https://t.me/gatewaypunditofficial/54778

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Every Assassinated President was a Republican except one. And he was the one who cut taxes and began to revisit US Foreign & Intel Agency Policy.

Maybe I missed it but there doesn't seem to be much in the way of vids of Trump actually on the fairways at the times of the assassination attempt. There was one vid which looked more like a file vid rather than current.

Until such surfaces, I'm nearly inclined to regard this as a decoy operation for flushing patsy and congeners. Maybe such is out there, but haven't seen it yet.

Not sure whether it's true, but it wouldn't surprise me.

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/alice-in-spyland-wednesday-september

Yesterday, Governor DeSantis signed an executive order opening Florida’s independent investigation into Ryan Routh’s attempted assassination. The Governor then held a well-attended press conference announcing the investigation, without a single federal official, and it knocked corporate media right off its rocking chair. Some platforms played the story straight, like the AP, which described it as a humdrum ‘parallel’ investigation, under the headline “Florida will launch criminal probe into apparent assassination attempt of Trump, governor says.”

In the brainless New York Times story, Florida’s independent investigation is painted as a conspiracy to embarrass Joe Biden between Governor DeSantis and Republicans in Congress. The Times’ story is headlined, “Why the Story of the Golf Course Shooting Will Be Told Twice.”

The Times’s headline was right, but for the wrong reason. The only reason we’ll get the feds’ side of the story is because they don’t want to be embarrassed by Florida. It’s already started, with the FBI admitting yesterday it once investigated and abandoned Routh in 2019.

A few of the Governor’s comments triggered the Times. The Governor, himself a lawyer, argued the feds have a conflict of interest in investigating Ryan Routh for attempting to kill Trump, since the feds are also simultaneously trying to drag Trump to jail, and are being directed by an Administration seeking to politically castrate the former President.

DeSantis also said the investigation should be open, transparent, and not smothered in inky bureaucratic blackness, like the Las Vegas shooting case has been. DeSantis observed, “I don’t think anyone can honestly claim that the federal government has been forthright and transparent about its past investigations. That’s just the reality. That’s just how these guys operate.”

But those comments, however politically incorrect to the Times, were not the reason why DeSantis said he opened an investigation. The undebatable reason for Florida’s involvement is the feds only charged Routh with two low-level firearms violations: possessing a weapon with a felony conviction and with an obliterated serial number. Together, the two charges amount only to a maximum of 15 years.

“To say you’re going to do a couple gun charges, that is not sufficient,” DeSantis icily declared.

Instead, Florida intends to charge Routh with attempted murder, a state-law crime carrying up to life in prison. Florida need only prove four things: Routh’s intent, preparation, a single act taken in furtherance of the plot, and that it would have succeeded if not interrupted. Those four required elements seem self-evident in the facts already known about Routh’s case.

The DOJ cannot charge Routh with attempted murder, since it’s a state crime. They can’t even charge him with attempted assassination, since candidate Trump doesn’t fit the statutory definition of a political target under federal law, because he hasn’t yet been elected and past officials don’t count. Florida has access to even more crimes, including grand theft auto,* a stolen license plate, and analogous state-level weapons violations.

(* DeSantis’ executive order described Routh’s car, the black Nissan, as ‘stolen,’ which is another state-level crime.)

I suspect that as facts continue tumbling out, we will discover that Routh’s attempted murder operation was very skilled and very well organized. Among other talents, we already know the failed, broke, tiny-home contractor could: effortlessly raise money, get hold of foreign weapons with serial numbers filed off, buy fake passports in Pakistan, travel hither and thither, in and out of war zones, steal black Nissans, finagle stolen license plates for his stolen cars, build sniper’s nests, evade detection by Secret Service sweeps for over twelve hours, and so on, and so forth, and you get the idea.

Oh —haha!— I almost forgot. Silly me. In an exclusive Wall Street Journal story headlined “U.S. Authorities Were Warned About Suspected Trump Gunman”, the Journal casually mentioned that Routh worked with at least one ‘former’ CIA officer:

Routh was well known among volunteer aid groups in Ukraine as a "fraudster"
and "kind of a whack job," said Sarah Adams, a former CIA officer who helped
run a network that linked 50 aid groups to share information and coordinate
humanitarian and volunteer efforts. He claimed to be working with the
Ukrainian government to recruit foreign fighters but wasn't, she said.

Lest we forget, in another limited-hangout story (never followed up on), the New York Times already told us how Ukraine was swarming with CIA agents, a dozen secret underground CIA bases, and a private army of Ukrainian saboteurs trained by CIA. Ukraine was (or is) practically the CIA’s world headquarters.

In fact, the CIA is so deep up Ukraine’s backside that one could robustly argue that the Russians aren’t fighting the Zelensky regime in Ukraine so much as they are fighting the CIA in Ukraine. As Joe Biden would say, not a joke.

Anyway, I won’t describe the Journal’s Routh story in detail since this topic is already running long. But believe me that it has all the hallmarks of a deep-state dump and a limited hangout. For just one example, the Journal somehow got hold of half a dozen people who worked with Routh in Ukraine, including the aforementioned former CIA officer, who all described the skinny ex-construction worker as sketchy, dangerous, and kind of crazy.

Now they tell us.

But … how did the Wall Street Journal so quickly round up all these Routh-connected sources to interview? It didn’t say. I guess there must be a hotline or something. 1-800-ROUTH-TIPS, maybe. Or they just called Langley, Virginia. But that is a side issue.

In addition to his many chameleon-like spy powers, like stealing cars and license plates and setting up sniper nests, Routh also somehow successfully made himself a ubiquitous propaganda mouthpiece for the Proxy War effort, and somehow managed to score interviews with all the major media platforms. It’s almost like Routh had a handler of some kind. And it was all very un-failure-like.

Definitely sketchy. Obviously dangerous. But more importantly, Routh clearly has skillz. With a ‘z’. Routh looks more like John Wick than a failed “fraudster” or a psychotic “whack job.”

I’m not saying it’s obvious somebody must have trained the walking scarecrow, just because he failed at everything evident in his public-facing life. The Journal even called it, “his tumultuous life full of failures and brushes with the law.” So okay, maybe, late in life, he finally stumbled across the one thing he’s good at: international assassin. He could have learned all that spooky spy stuff on YouTube. You never know.

That seems possible but highly unlikely. Isn’t the more parsimonious explanation that somebody trained Routh in spook skills? Somebody, perhaps, who works in an agency in love with three-letter acronyms?

Regardless, setting all that aside, the bottom line, and the thing to remember, is DeSantis’s central point: the DOJ should hand the case over to Florida since Routh’s crimes were committed in Florida, and since Florida can get a life sentence under state law, as opposed to just a maximum of 15 years on low-level federal gun charges.

Even setting aside the issue of transparency and trust, the feds should get out of the way until and unless they can charge Routh with something better than two commonplace weapons violations. And that is a fact.

One final quick update. We’ve wondered how Routh knew Trump would be on the golf course, since the trip arose right after a last-minute schedule change. But Routh’s timing is even more astonishing than that. Since Trump often plays golf on this course, it is true Routh could’ve just made a lucky guess.

But yesterday, I learned that Trump International has not yet opened for the season. In other words, the course was closed. So Routh would’ve had to know Trump was playing there even though nobody else was, and even though if Routh checked the course’s website, it would’ve said no golfing was going on.

In other words, not only was it even more remarkable Routh guessed Trump would be there, it was also the perfect time to get Trump, since the course was closed and pesky public players wouldn’t be around to interfere.

Curiouser and curiouser, cried Alice (so much surprised, that for the moment she quite forgot how to speak good English).

https://genesiustimes.com/trump-is-literally-trying-to-steal-our-democracy-by-refusing-to-die-in-assassination-attempts/

https://x.com/nicksortor/status/1835763816979673208

https://x.com/atensnut/status/1835722737148686485

https://x.com/overton_news/status/1835748004453572616

https://x.com/pr0ud_americans/status/1835654344902942916

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgwwqkgzx0o

Here's the situation with the car bomb at the Long Island Trump Rally earlier:

AmericanKulak says

Here's the situation with the car bomb at the Long Island Trump Rally earlier:

So much for the "Public Information Office" - it conveys absolutely no information other than "We don't know."

Well, I think a lavish decoy operation is going on. Must be a YUGE bounty on Trump. First assassination in the initial rushes five exfiltrated Vietnamese were killed with cyanide in a Bangkok Hotel (price of failure, or just routine eradication of non patsy perps?), a Cuban Real Estate Mogul suicided before FBI could question him (Bush Team), and FBI making inquiries in Moscow (Ukrainian connection?).

Using foreign teams with patsy frosting seems to be the nom de plume. If the patsy scores, frosting on the cake, but that is not his primary function. Everybody just leaves the patsy drama in place for public consumption, although there were no rushes on foreign teams so far in the golf course caper. I think Team Trump knows these attempts but isn't above using them for publicity.

https://slaynews.com/news/karine-jean-pierre-shredded-defending-biden-harris-rhetoric-attacking-trump-threat/

During a White House press briefing on Tuesday, Fox News correspondent Peter Doocy asked Jean-Pierre:

“How many more assassination attempts on Donald Trump until the president and vice president and you pick a different word to describe Trump, other than ‘threat?’”

Jean-Pierre told Doocy she completely disagreed with the premise of his question.

Instead of answering the question, she claimed that the way he asked it was “incredibly dangerous” because Americans were watching.

In a post on X, The Spectator editor-at-large Ben Domenech argued:
“‘Asking questions about how we demonize our opponents and their supporters is dangerous!’ is an utterly heinous response from KJP.”

Homeland Security isn't about the Homeland or security. More like 'False Flag False Emergency Apparatus(FEMA) For Gulaging The American People' and can properly be called another Globalist foreign agency operation.

https://t.me/hkitabayashi/1436

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/maximized-thursday-september-19-2024

Director Berger first confirmed the fact that last year, Customs and Border Patrol had found Routh suspicious when he re-entered the country, and referred Routh’s file to Homeland Security as a suspect. But then, as always, the trail went cold. In the clip, Representative Gaetz reads from the CBP memo on Routh:

“They (CBP) say in their memo, ‘the suspect is a US citizen who traveled to Kiev, Ukraine, for three months to help recruit soldiers from Afghanistan, Moldova, and Taiwan, to fight in the Ukrainian war against Russia. Subject stated he does not get paid for his recruiting efforts, and all his work for the Ukrainian government is strictly volunteer work. Subject stated that he obtains money from his wife to help fund his trips to Ukraine.’”

What’s that? His wife! We hadn’t heard of this person before. She’s been completely scrubbed from corporate media. How is it that corporate media has failed not only to interview this person but even to mention her?

Pasting lots of pieces together, Routh apparently has recently remarried, to a woman named Kathleen Shaffer. In addition to the CBP report, Shaffer’s name pops up in a few key places. She evidently helped edit Routh’s book, and she ran a small GoFundMe for his Ukrainian adventures. Social media citizen journalists connected Shaffer to the LinkedIn page to a same-named person who fit her profile and lives in Hawaii.

If it’s her, Kathleen works for a giant, international, publicly traded company you never heard of called Maximus.

According to its LinkedIn profile, Maximus Corporation —just wait, you can’t make this stuff up— is headquartered at 1600 Tysons Blvd, McLean, Virginia. Just six miles to the Northwest of Maximus HQ lies Langley, Virginia, where the United States Central Intelligence Agency is located:

It gets even better.

Maximus’s sparse profile on LinkedIn claims the company employs “10,000+”. The company’s website, Maximus.com, describes the company’s services like this:

Moving people, technology, and government forward
We provide transformative technology services, digitally
enabled customer experiences, and clinical health services
that change lives.

I defy you to explain exactly what the heck this company does from that description. But I bet it involves tons of money previously owned by taxpayers. Fortunately, Maximus has a YouTube explainer video linked right on its home page. I’ll give you one guess what is most heavily featured in its short promo video. Covid vaccines. I told you that you can’t make this stuff up. And wait till you see what else they say, like about helping relocate ‘desperate asylum seekers’ into the US:




In the clip, Maximum brags about training twenty thousand CDC workers, training them about the covid shots within the first 60 days. So it was in the covid shot deal right out of the gate, up to its corporate neck. That’s who trained the CDC. In another, more recent video, Maximus describes helping the Department of Defense “modernize” its technology systems.

ChatGPT said “Maximus Corporation has significant connections to the U.S. security state.”

It is difficult to imagine what unemployed ex-contractor Ryan Routh and Ms. Shaffer might have in common. But love is a mysterious thing. Assuming we have the correct Kathleen Shaffer in Hawaii who funded Ryan Routh’s Ukrainian adventures, it is very weird she works for a murky, security state-connected, multinational corporation located just down the street from the Central Intelligence Agency.

It takes longer to drop the kids off at school than drive from Maximus to CIA HQ. I’m just saying.

But nevermind! It’s probably just a coincidence. Matt Gaetz’s interview of Director Berger ended with his question why, like the FBI before it, Homeland Security also declined to follow up with investigating Ryan Routh. Director Berger didn’t know, but promised to find out.

The guy is such an obvious FSB glowie he's visible from the fucking orbit: travel to Ukraine wrapped in the US flag and gave interviews to Western morons ... err... jornos in the central square , tried to assosiate himself with Foreign Legion - got brushed off, tried to do the same with Azov Regiment - got brushed off, tried to misrepresent himself as a recruiter - was told to stop it, eventually left the country (or got kicked out) and then staged an "assasination attempt" with an SKS. SKS, Karl! This is who and how of presidential assasinations if you really mean to do it and shit not coming back to bite you.🤡

https://usawatchdog.com/deep-state-knows-it-cannot-cheat-kamela-in-martin-armstrong/

https://x.com/TheStormRedux/status/1835861910618611971

https://x.com/WesternLensman/status/1836128893855551540

Probably a few unknown, too. Are they being baited then exterminated, leaving just the cartoonish patsies? What would JFK have done if he had a counter strategy?

https://t.me/gatewaypunditofficial/54944