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Trump assassination plot exposes Ryan Routh's bomb bust, barricade with illegal gun in professional demise
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Failed Trump assassination attempt suspect Ryan Routh fell from a successful roofer to a man who thought the IRS was sending the cops after him, according to a retired officer.
"He would drive right by you and smile. … We got on a first-name basis." "He liked to run his mouth and play the victim." "the issue of him barricading himself inside the business…should have put a red flag on his name…" "I guaruntee he could have been a millionaire by now if he hadn't gone off the rails." "If he’s a convicted felon, how did he have a gun in the first place?" Audrey Conklin is a digital reporter for Fox News Digital and FOX Business. Email tips to audrey.conklin@fox.com or on Twitter at @audpants.
"Routh's attitude was that he was above everybody. He could do what he wanted," Eric Rasecke, a retired Greensboro Police Department officer and Air Force veteran, told Fox News Digital. "It didn't matter. He was pretty entitled. … He ran his mouth quite a bit about how he could get off and how he owned a successful business and nobody could do anything to him and he knew everybody in Greensboro."
The first time Rasecke met Routh was in the late 1990s when the now-retired officer pulled him over for a traffic violation.