<p>Former FBI Assistant Director Chris Swecker said there is a &#8220;scary&#8221; possibility that must be considered following the second alleged attempt to assassinate former President Donald Trump on Sunday.</p>
<p>Ryan Routh, a 58-year-old Democrat donor, was arrested on Sunday after authorities say he positioned himself 300-500 yards away from Trump while the Republican nominee was golfing at Trump International Golf Course West Palm Beach. Secret Service agents reportedly spotted the barrel of a rifle sticking out of a fence. They fired at the alleged would-be assassin before the suspect fled and was apprehended by authorities.</p>
<p>Swecker, who served as assistant director of the FBI&#8217;s Criminal Investigative Division from 2004 to 2006, told <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/possibility-ryan-routh-informant-scary-ex-fbi-leader-swecker-1954279" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Newsweek</a> on Monday that authorities need to focus on one question.</p>
<p>&#8220;The biggest question to answer is: &#8216;How did the would-be assassin know to be at that location at that time?'&#8221; he said. &#8220;There are only three possible answers: He guessed and got very lucky; he conducted surveillance on Trump and followed him to the golf course or he had inside information about Trump&#8217;s schedule.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;The last answer is scary and has implications that another person was involved,&#8221; Swecker added.</p>
<p>The former FBI assistant director also said that the Left&#8217;s &#8220;demonization of Trump is resonating with the fringe elements who are mentally unstable and highly impressionable,&#8221; adding that it is &#8220;time to tone it down a bit.&#8221; Swecker said that Routh appears to be a &#8220;wingnut.&#8221;</p>
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<p>Routh made small <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/alleged-would-be-assassin-was-democrat-donor-with-criminal-record" target="_blank" rel="noopener">donations</a> exclusively to Democrats in 2019 and 2020 and was convicted of possessing a weapon of mass destruction — a fully automatic machine gun — in 2002. That year, he reportedly barricaded himself inside a Greensboro, North Carolina, business with a gun. Routh was also sentenced for driving without a license, carrying a concealed weapon, and a hit and run in 2003, Fox 8 <a href="https://myfox8.com/news/north-carolina/greensboro/trump-shooting-attempt-suspect-had-lengthy-criminal-history-in-north-carolina-records-show/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.</p>
<p>On Sunday, authorities found an AK-47-style rifle, a GoPro, and backpacks where Routh allegedly set himself up to take a shot at Trump. Routh criticized Trump in social media posts, including one where he <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-ryan-wesley-routh-twitter-x-posts-b2613498.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a>, &#8220;While you were my choice in [2016], I and the world hoped that president Trump would be different and better than the candidate, but we all were greatly disappointment [sic] and it seems you are getting worse and devolving. I will be glad when you gone.&#8221;</p>
<p>Swecker also commented on Routh&#8217;s reported attempts to get fighters to sign up to help Ukraine fight Russia.</p>
<p>&#8220;We know this suspect has posted about Trump being a danger to democracy and he has been active on some strange quests: visiting Ukraine to round up Afghan fighters so motive is coming into focus—he is a wing nut who dislikes authority, based on his arrest record for resisting arrest in a two-hour standoff,&#8221; Swecker said.</p>

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