Ryan Routh's Attempt on Trump's Life and the Trial After

Showing 9 Ryan Routh videos from Charlie Kirk's video collection.

Ryan Routh became the name behind the second assassination attempt on Donald Trump's life during the 2024 campaign, arrested at Trump's West Palm Beach golf club in September after visiting the course 17 times beforehand and waiting more than ten hours with a rifle. Brian Entin covered Routh's federal trial in detail, including his decision to represent himself, testimony from the Secret Service agent whose direction Routh aimed a weapon at, and a letter prosecutors said offered $150,000 to whoever completed the assassination. Both the Biden and Trump administrations concluded Routh acted alone, a finding YouTuber Zach from WolvesAndFinance rejected, pointing to a book about Routh that appeared for sale on Amazon the day after the attempt as evidence of a broader conspiracy rather than a lone gunman. Victor Davis Hanson placed Routh alongside Thomas Matthew Crooks, Luigi Mangione, and Charlie Kirk's own killer Tyler Robinson as part of a broader pattern he attributed to political rhetoric that had lowered the threshold for acceptable violence against people labeled fascists, arguing the combination of demonization and lax security protocols created the conditions for repeated assassination attempts. Charlie Kirk himself used Routh's case directly in campus debates, correcting a student who conflated Routh's party registration with Trump's own enemy-within rhetoric by noting Routh was not a registered Republican.