Andrew Stiles of the Washington Free Beacon explores the inspiration behind the latest assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump.
A question must be asked. The question is this: Was Ryan Wesley Routh, the lunatic who tried to assassinate former president Donald Trump earlier this month, radicalized by the inflammatory rhetoric of Ben Rhodes? Is the so-called Obama bro and mullah whisperer, best known as the failed novelist who nurse-mothered the Iran nuclear deal into existence, guilty of inciting violence against a political opponent?
If one applies the same rigorous standards as the mainstream media, the answer is a definitive yes.
For instance, Routh in a letter outlining his motivations specifically cited Trump’s decision to withdraw from the Obama-Rhodes nuclear deal. “Everyone across the globe from the youngest to the oldest know that Trump is unfit to be anything, much less a US president,” Routh vented in the handwritten note obtained by authorities. “He ended relations with Iran like a child and now the Middle East has unraveled.” The failed assassin went even further in the book he self-published in February 2023; Routh personally apologized to Iran and said the Islamist regime was “free to assassinate Trump as well as me.”
Routh’s screed could easily have been written by Ben Rhodes. “Donald Trump—let’s be blunt—he’s not respected. He’s not taken seriously around the world. He’s a chaos agent,” Rhodes said during an MSNBC appearance on June 22. “Donald Trump’s tearing up agreements contributed, I believe, directly to October 7, between Israel and Hamas, and so Donald Trump’s not going to solve these problems and he’s going to make them worse.”Rhodes … has been by far the loudest and most obnoxious critic of Trump’s decision to withdraw from the nuclear deal with Iran. A weirdo like Routh, who loved the deal so much he tried to kill a former president, was almost by definition influenced by Rhodes.
