Image source: Guilford County Sheriff's Office
CV NEWS FEED // Authorities arrested Oran Routh, 35, the son of the man charged with attempting to assassinate former President Donald Trump on September 15, after the younger Routh was found to be in possession of a large amount of child pornography.
As CatholicVote noted earlier this week, the North Carolina man’s father, Ryan Routh, 58, brought an AK-47 rifle onto Trump’s Florida golf course “within a few hundred yards from the former president.” The incident marked the second attempt on Trump’s life since July.
On Tuesday, a grand jury charged the elder Routh with attempted assassination.
The New York Post reported that the younger Routh “was arrested Tuesday morning on child pornography charges after the feds found hundreds of sick images when they searched his phone following his dad’s arrest.”
The would-be assassin’s son “is accused in a North Carolina federal court of receiving and [possessing] child porn,” the Post indicated.
Also per the Post’s report, federal agents came across the obscene images on Saturday while searching Oran Routh’s “Greensboro home in connection to a separate investigation.”
The Hill further noted:
The complaint against Oran Routh included graphic descriptions of videos of minors approximately 6-8 and 12-14 years of age engaged in sex acts, and a chat from a messaging application in July, where he allegedly asked for a preview of content for sale.
Shortly after the second failed assassination attempt on Trump, Oran Routh told the Daily Mail that his father had a hatred for the 45th president, but argued that “every reasonable person does.”
The alleged pedophile added: “I don’t like Trump either.”
About a week after the golf course shooting, the Biden-Harris administration’s Department of Justice controversially published a “Dear world” letter allegedly written by the elder Routh which called for others to “finish the job.”
The letter affirmed that the September incident “was an assassination attempt on Donald Trump.” Later in the note, Routh offered a reward of $150,000 “to whomever can complete the job” of taking the former president’s life.
As CatholicVote reported, “critics decried the DOJ’s move to release the letter, arguing that it may lead to future assassination attempts against Trump.”
Some observers pointed out that while the DOJ released the letter in just one week’s time, the same federal department decided not to publicly release the manifesto of a woman who murdered six people in the March 23 Covenant School Shooting.
The woman who had opened fire at the Christian school claimed to be a “transgender” man.
