Handwritten Note Gives New Details on Apparent Trump Assassination Attempt

Welcome to Crossroads. Court documents could give more details the assassination attempt against President Donald Trump. Now a handwritten note from the suspect, Ryan Ruth, was submitted to the court by federal prosecutors. It states this, quote, this was an assassination attempt on Donald Trump but I failed you. I tried my best and gave it all the gumption I could muster. Now we're now seeing some of the more evidence come out on this case and I think because we're seeing the evidence we can actually kind of put together the whole situation a lot better. Let me start first with this letter. Now this is from the official court document. It says this, quote, on September 18th law enforcement was contacted by a civilian witness who stated that Ruth had dropped off a box at his residence several months prior. After learning the September 15th incident at Trump International the witness opened the box, suggesting of course he didn't do it beforehand which could have meant that he knew about this whole thing and reported. But they note this, the witness stated the box contained ammunition, a metal pipe, we don't know what that is, miscellaneous building materials, tools, four phones, and various letters. Now we don't know the details of all of this yet. You know again if you think metal pipe a lot of people might think a pipe bomb. We don't actually know if this was anything of that nature. They're not giving us details. We also don't know what the various letters are. They're only telling us about one of them. It says this, one handwritten letter addressed to the world stated among other things again this was an assassination attempt on Donald Trump. Now they say, quote, also it is up to you now to finish the job and I will offer $150,000 to whomever can complete the job. Now what it seems this was was kind of a kill switch. It seems this individual again submitted this to his friend or this individual months before the actual assassination attempt. And given that of course we would assume that well you know maybe again he believed he would fail. Maybe he you know didn't want to do this in the first place and just wanted to write this thing. The more likely case is this was a kill switch, kind of a contingency plan if he did fail and he'd be able to again send this kind of message to the world so to speak. Given that his friend actually turned it into authorities, he didn't keep it, it's not clear how well that actually worked out for him. Very likely again this was something he submitted with the possibility that he would fail ahead of time. Now just some details in this court document also. This court document does not list like the full breadth of evidence. The court document currently available, it's just the evidence the prosecutors submitted to support the case for pre-trial detention, which they've now been granted by the way. Ryan Ruth is being held now without bail. Now they note that the investigation is ongoing so in addition to maybe these other letters we don't know about yet, we're going to be hearing a lot more on it. But it does give us a clearer picture of what happened on the golf course that day. Now this is the official document, it says this, as the former president advanced through the course, a secret service agent was part of the overall protection detail, moved ahead of him in a golf cart and conducted a security sweep to identify any potential threats and to ensure the safety and security of the former president along the route. And it's the perimeter of Trump International is surrounded by a chain-link fence and the southeast corner of the fence is screened by trees and brush. The sixth hole on the course is near the southeast corner and while the former president was on the fifth hole, meaning he was pretty close to it, the agent cleared the area along the sixth hole. Again they were one step away right? And at approximately 1 30 pm the agent spotted the partially obscured face of a man in the brush along the fence line. The man was later identified again as Ryan Wesley Ruth. Ruth's position was directly in line with the sixth hole, again one ahead of where Trump was. And it's the agent that observed a long black object protruding through the fence and realized the object was the barrel of a rifle aimed directly at him. Meaning again he was pointing it at the agent presumably. And as the agent jumped out of the golf cart, drew his weapon and began backing away, the agent saw the rifle barrel move suggesting they were maybe tracking him and the agent fired at Ruth. The agent took cover behind a tree, reloaded his weapon, looked up and saw that Ruth was gone. Now notice the position Ruth were occupied when the agent first noticed him was directly in line again with the sixth hole green. And had their agent not found him by that time it's possible Trump would have been in that sixth hole green very soon. Again this is important because this really shows how close this whole thing really was. Had that agent not noticed that gun, had that agent not seen the individual's face, maybe had the individual worn camouflage or painted his face, very likely you know this whole thing could have ended a lot worse than it was. Now also interestingly the area where Ruth was allegedly at, you know that area, that was a known blind spot. This was actually noted during the press conference just after the assassination attempt. And apparently like media paparazzi, they actually use that location to take photos. It gives you a pretty broad view of that whole range. And you know again this is raising some concerns over well maybe they should have had additional security, maybe they should have cleared those blind spots. We know that Ruth based on again other reporting was there from about 1 a.m. to 1 p.m. like 12 hours. And an individual sitting in the bushes pretty well exposed generally speaking, you know you could have spotted him with some basic security in that area. Especially knew again that the area was problematic. Now we're also getting more details on the firearm he used. And this is important. First off he did not have an automatic AK-47 as was reported by I think most media. The gun he was using was a semi-automatic SKS. That's like a hunting rifle basically right. It had a scope and an extended magazine. Now you know again the SKS and the AK-47 these are both kind of like Russian armaments. You know I'm not saying they're from Russia. These are weapons of war technically. But there's a big difference between them. If you talk about an AK-47 that's what a lot of media would say is an assault weapon right. And if you say it's automatic well that brings up the whole argument of hey automatic weapons and how this individual get it. When you say an SKS you're talking about what is really more like a hunting rifle at least the way it's used. It had a scope on it and presumably the reason why a lot of media said it was an AK-47 was because they saw the banana clip right. They had a clip or a magazine that you know bends right. They call them banana clips. It was very likely because of that that a lot of media mistook it for an AK-47. This is important though because again with the whole gun control argument the way that these things are normally framed. You know this is a fundamental difference between a hunting rifle and an assault rifle. The individual had what would technically be a hunting rifle. But also that means it was more dangerous for the purpose he was possibly using it for right. He had a scope on it. He was probably going to shoot a longer range shot. Anybody who's shot guns before knows that AK-47s are not necessarily that accurate at longer distances. You know just because of the way they're built and the way that again they reload. But when you're dealing with an SKS it's much more accurate. And so this would have been actually a lot more dangerous given that. Now the document says also that a civilian who was driving in the area saw Ruth run to his vehicle. It says Ruth made eye contact with him. And then Ruth drove off at high speeds. The witness took photos of the back of the Nissan that he was driving. Reported it and also noted part of the license plate number. And the license plate is interesting. Now officers with Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office were then able to stop Ruth's vehicle. They had him identified. They arrested him. But they found something very interesting. This is the court document. It says law enforcement discovered that the license plate on the Nissan Xterra was not registered to the Nissan Xterra. It was a different one. And it's during the search of the Nissan Xterra FBI agents found two additional license plates. The agents also found six cell phones. One of the cell phones contained a Google search of how to travel from Palm Beach County to Mexico. Suggesting he was planning to you know flee the country. Notice the agents also found 12 pairs of gloves. A Hawaii driver's license in the defendant's name. A passport in the defendant's name. And documents including the following. A handwritten list of dates in August, September, October 2024. And venues where the former president had appeared or is expected to be present. He had done his research in all the locations where Trump was possibly going to be. And noted a notebook with dozens of pages is also found. And it was filled with names and phone numbers pertaining to Ukraine. Discussions about how to join combat on behalf of Ukraine. And notes criticizing the governments of China and Russia. Now again we know that Ruth was you know kind of a Ukrainian activist. Not acting on behalf of Ukraine but very likely because a lot of the media coverage here. He was just very let's say passionate about it right. Ruth was again actually even trying to recruit people to fight for it. He'd even tried going there and enlisting himself. He couldn't get in so he helped them with recruiting. And that's kind of the story with it. There's been videos of him coming out you know talking to media. Talking to Ukrainian media about why he cares about the issue. And of course we get somebody who's you know doing petitions. Trying to get people to enlist in the war. Naturally you're going to have media wanting to talk to you about that. So a lot of his media appearances were about that. Now interestingly though based on cell data, because you know even if you turn off, and this is not that well known, even if you turn off your location tracking on your phone, your phone still tracks your location. Especially because at the very least even if you don't have a smartphone, what your phone does is it basically pings different cell towers. And so cell towers can relatively track your general position. And so as you travel it'll connect, right, that's how you maintain a connection. Your phone reaches out and just connects to all these cell towers. It's known that based on his cellular data that Ruth traveled from Greensboro, North Carolina area to West Palm Beach, Florida on August 14th. And it notes that his phone had accessed cell towers near Trump International and the former president's residence at Mar-a-Lago from August 18th to September 15th. Now look remember the alleged assassination attempt was on September 15th. So this means that he was in that area for a full month. And again this is important because it means that he was scouting the area. A lot of the initial reporting was wondering well geez how did he know to be at that one location when Trump just happened to be there. Based on this he was kind of looking for Trump for maybe like a full month. And again had a full list of all the places Trump could possibly be. We don't know the full details of this yet but based on that it's very likely that Ruth again was not just there that one time. This could have been again a more of a long-term thing. Now interestingly authorities also that's important some important parts of a book that Ruth allegedly wrote. I'll be talking more about this after come back from a quick break. Experts agree one of the best ways to protect against financial uncertainty is to diversify your portfolio. 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Welcome back we're getting more details in the recent assassination attempt allegedly by Ryan Ruth against former president Donald Trump. Now interestingly federal prosecutors are now looking to bring the official charges of attempted assassination and again these charges are against Ruth who's now again being held without bail. More details have been emerging what actually happened on Ruth and on Ruth's kind of apparent motives with this. Now authorities also note some important parts of a book that's titled Ukraine's Unwinnable War that Ruth allegedly wrote and that book if real right if it actually was from him could actually show some of his thinking behind the alleged plot. The court documents say this as part of this investigation FBI agents recently reviewed a book apparently authored by Ruth in February 2023 just recently kind of and it's titled Ukraine's Unwinnable War the Fatal Flaw of Democracy World Abandonment and the Global Citizen Taiwan Afghanistan North Korea World War 3 and the End of Humanity. Now it says this in the book Ruth stated he quote must take part of the blame for the person that we elected for our next president that ended up being brainless but I am man enough to say that I misjudged and made a terrible mistake and Iran I apologize. He said you are free to assassinate Trump as well as me for that error and judgment and the dismantling of the deal no one here in the U.S. seems to have the balls to put natural selection to work or even unnatural selection. Suggesting again what is natural selection well nature weeds out the unwanted so to speak or the weak and he's suggesting that unnatural selection may be at play suggesting maybe killing somebody right. Again we don't really know if that's what his motive was we don't know if that's what he meant by that but his words are pretty cryptic. Now what is known is that Ruth was an activist for the Ukrainian war he allegedly tried enlisting himself to fight but he also recruited volunteers to fight in that war and a lot of the name he made in the media prior to this was actually through that. The document from the court though it also explains that in 2002 Ruth was convicted in North Carolina of possessing a weapon of mass destruction. Now the details of that it was a binary explosive device and if you go by the ATF website it says this binary explosives are pre-packaged products consisting of two separate components usually an oxidizer like ammonium nitrate and a fuel such as aluminum or another metal. It notes that ATF does not generally regulate the sale and distribution of these component chemicals even when sold together in binary kits however when the binary components are combined the resulting mixture is an explosive material subject to ATF regulatory requirements. Now that charge for that would be a class F felony you could face up to 59 months in incarceration for it and also in 2010 Ruth was convicted of multiple counts of possession of stolen goods that would be a class H felony with up to 39 months of incarceration although again you know those are previous convictions they do show his criminal history and what's important with that folks if you're a felon what does that mean if you're a felon what does it mean you cannot legally own a firearm. Now look we don't know how he got his gun we don't know how given these crimes he was able to keep doing this we don't know again full details of this because they're not even releasing all of his letters yet the information we have is just what was submitted by prosecutors to again have Ruth remain in pre-trial detention he's now being held without bail of course I'll be giving more details on this case as information comes out and you know one last point of this I know a lot of people say well you know say the line you know he was the FBI was watching him that that's kind of part of the law enforcement system in America you cannot be charged with a crime you did not commit and although we do have some kind of pre- crime type things where for example if you're an individual who's acting suspiciously you might get monitored for this kind of stuff which is usually where the FBI says that this individual is kind of on our radar it does not mean they can arrest you this is one of the protections you have as an American citizen and so I know people often say oh yeah of course they were watching him you can't be arrested if you haven't committed a crime that's not how our law enforcement system works you could suggest hey maybe that's a loophole maybe people should be arrested I guarantee you if you had people being arrested for crimes they didn't commit that'd be a pretty big controversy on both sides of the aisle it is difficult with situations like this but again that is an issue you could say on the other side well heck if he was reported for illegally owning a firearm maybe they should have arrested him it goes by who you ask a lot of people don't believe you should be arrested for firearms charges and you know you shouldn't really be able to do that in the first place maybe people can't own a firearm but again it depends on where you sit in the political aisle given that situation though again maybe this could have been prevented maybe this was preventable we don't really know we're going to get more details on this as it comes out and again I will be reporting on it as we get those details in other news I suppose we need to talk about the cats in Ohio now look as you might have seen there are conflicting reports on whether local Haitian migrants are eating people's cats the controversy really got big after Trump said during his debate with Vice President Kamala Harris that in Ohio the migrants were eating the cats and eating the pets of the people that live there now I'll be talking more about this only on EpicTV.com so if you're watching on YouTube, Facebook, XRumble there's a link in the description below click on that you'll get access to the rest of this episode as well as our whole library of shows and our hard-hitting documentaries on issues that matter like the Chinese Communist Party's 100-year plan to defeat the United States the CCP is one of the biggest threats to America they're using things like propaganda video games entertainment movies culture to subvert and influence the next generation if you'd like to find out more about the CCP's plotting against America watch my documentary the final war the 100-year plot to defeat America you can find the link to that in the description below and I'll show you all a trailer before we go exclusively to EpicTV.com for the rest of this episode see you there the greatest threat facing the United States is the CCP the epic times investigation team had studied the CCP for years but what we uncovered was yielding evidence beyond our imagination with chairman Mao with the prime minister our talks have been characterized by frankness the Clinton administration said oh don't worry about it this will be a poison pill for China China's strategic goal is to make sure that the U.S. has four enemies and one of them must be a terrorist group we are giving of our life's blood so that the Chinese Communist Party can survive and thrive