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Ryan Routh was charged with two firearms-related counts after he was found carrying a rifle into bushes on September 15 while Trump was golfing near a golf course in Florida, authorities said.
The incident came hours after Trump, in a Truth Society post, declared his “hatred” for the global pop star , who endorsed Democratic candidate Kamala Harris after the September 10 presidential debate.
The Facebook post said that Rouse was “revealed” as a Swift fan and that she “tried to kill Donald Trump” just “two hours after” Trump made a hateful post about Swift.
The post shared screenshots of a post about the 2020 presidential election by “Ryan Routh” (@RyanRouth) on “Donald Trump-elect!”
Askume reported on Monday that it found social media profiles bearing Routh’s name and that public access to X’s profile was removed hours after the September 15 incident.
There is no evidence that the now-deleted @RyanRouth account on the X in the screenshot ever posted about “Swifties” and the 2020 presidential election.
An archived version of the account shows the man expressing disappointment on July 31, 2020, that then- Democratic nominee Joe Biden did not select a running mate.
“@JoeBiden, I’m disappointed that you haven’t taken decisive action to elect a Vice President,” the archived post said. “At this rate, you’ll get nowhere as President.”
Biden chose Harris as his vice presidential nominee on August 11, 2020, a few months before the November 3, 2020 election .
An archive of the @RyanRouth profile, from the day of the Biden-Harris announcement through Election Day 2020, records 12 posts from the account (page 3), none of which are related to Swift or the Biden-Harris campaign .
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There is no evidence. There is no evidence that the ex-profile bearing Ryan Routh’s name encouraged Swift’s fans to vote for Biden-Harris in the 2020 presidential election.
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