Donald Trump Jr. lashed out at “Kamala’s Justice Department” for publishing a letter written by would-be assassin Ryan Wesley Routh.
Routh wrote a chilling letter admitting that he failed in his attempt to take the former president’s life.
Routh also offered $150,000 to anyone who could “finish the job,” according to the memo released by the Justice Department on Monday and obtained by DailyMail.com.
‘What the hell?! Why is Kamala’s Justice Department posting that Ryan Wesley Routh has put a price on my father’s head?’ Trump Jr. posted on X on Monday.
Democratic vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris reportedly did not make the decision to publish the letter.
Donald Trump Jr. lashed out at “Kamala’s Justice Department” for publishing a letter written by would-be assassin Ryan Wesley Routh
‘What the hell?! Why is Kamala’s Justice Department posting that Ryan Wesley Routh has put a price on my father’s head?’ Trump Jr. posted on X on Monday
Donald Trump’s alleged assassin, Ryan Wesley Routh, has written a chilling letter admitting that he failed in his attempt to take the former president’s life.
“This was an assassination attempt on Donald Trump, but I failed him. I did the best I could and put in all the courage I could muster. Now it’s up to you to finish the job – and I’ll offer $150,000 to whoever can complete it,” the letter reads.
The message was addressed “to the world” and said Trump had “ended relations with Iran as if it were a child and now the Middle East has fallen apart.”
Routh, 58, also had a list of Trump’s upcoming public appearances and had Googled a route from Palm Beach, Florida, to Mexico.
He is scheduled to appear in federal court on Monday for a detention hearing following the Sept. 15 assassination attempt at Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach.
Routh also offered $150,000 to anyone who could “finish the job,” according to the memo published by the Justice Department on Monday and obtained by DailyMail.com.
Ahead of that appearance, federal prosecutors filed a written statement of facts with new details about the day Routh tried to assassinate Trump at his West Palm Beach golf course.
In addition to laying out the evidence against Routh, the Justice Department argued that he should remain locked up while the case proceeds.
The document reveals that a Secret Service agent was riding on the fence between Trump’s golf course and the public street, one hole ahead of the former president, when he “saw the face of a man partially hidden in the brush along the fence.”
The man was later identified as Routh.
The officer then noticed the barrel of a rifle protruding from the barrel and fired at the suspect.
The officer then “took cover behind a tree and reloaded his weapon, then looked up” to see that Routh had disappeared.
Routh was positioned directly in the line of sight of the sixth hole green. Trump was playing on the fifth hole at the time of the incident. Secret Service agents rushed him off the course when they heard shots fired by his partner on the sixth hole.
Law enforcement officers stand outside the Paul G. Rogers Federal Courthouse Building before the hearing for the trial of Ryan W. Routh
After the officer fired, a witness saw Routh run down Summit Boulevard toward a black Nissan Xterra, with Florida license plates, parked nearby.
The witness took pictures of the Nissan Xterra and wrote down all the digits on the license plate except the last one. With that information, local police were able to find the vehicle and arrest Routh.
In the vehicle, officers found six cellphones, one of which “contained a Google search on how to travel from Palm Beach County to Mexico.”
Also in the vehicle were 12 pairs of gloves, a Hawaiian driver’s license in Routh’s name and a list of Trump’s public appearances in August, September and October.
In addition, there was a notebook with “dozens of pages filled with names and phone numbers belonging to Ukraine, discussions about how to join the fight on behalf of Ukraine, and notes criticizing the governments of China and Russia.”
On Sept. 18, a witness contacted authorities and said Routh had left a box at her residence several months earlier. After seeing news reports about what had happened at the golf course, the witness opened the box.
Among its contents was a chilling letter to The World in which Routh announced his intentions to assassinate the former president and predicted he would fail. He then offered a six-figure prize to anyone who could complete the task.
“This was an assassination attempt on Donald Trump, but I failed. I did the best I could and put in all the courage I could muster. Now it’s up to you to finish the job – and I’ll offer $150,000 to whoever can complete it,” the handwritten note reads.
‘Everyone in the world, from the youngest to the oldest, knows that Trump is unfit for anything, let alone to be president of the United States. American presidents should, at the very least, embody the moral fabric that is America and be kind, caring and selfless and always stand up for humanity.’
The box also contained ammunition, a metal pipe, various construction materials, tools, four telephones and several letters.