Former Assistant FBI Director Reveals Chilling Theory On Latest Trump Scare: ‘Inside Information’

As details start to emerge about how a gunman was able to lie in wait for up to 12 hours before former President Donald Trump crossed his path, security experts are starting to theorize that the latest security failure around him was no accident.

Former FBI Assistant Director Chris Swecker, appearing on Maria Bartiromo’s Fox News program Monday, posited that 58-year-old Ryan Wesley Routh may have been given “third party” information with regards to President Trump’s whereabouts on Sunday. The Republican was on the fifth hole of a golf outing at his Florida course when Secret Service agents spotted Routh’s rifle poking out from a chainlink fence lining the perimeter of the property. The trip, which was not listed as public, may only have been gleaned by Routh if he was receiving “inside information” from a source close to Trump.

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“I want to know how that person knew to be there, at that golf hole, at that time, that day,” Swecker said, the Western Journal reported. Swecker, now a private practicing attorney, suggested there are only two possibilities for Routh’s appearance that day. “He’s either surveilling Donald Trump or he received some inside information,” he added. “That’s pretty sinister if that’s the case because that implicates a third party either wittingly or unwittingly.”

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The Wall Street Journal reported that authorities have obtained cell phone records showing Routh positioned at the Trump International Golf Course for up to 12 hours before he was discovered. His phone first pinged a local around 2 a.m. and he fled around 1:31 p.m., jumping into a black Nissan that was later pulled over by responding officers, according to a criminal complaint filed on Monday. Routh did not ask for a reason why he was stopped, according to one officer. The overnight wait suggested some level of advanced planning in addition to his obtaining an AK-47-styled rifle, termed a weapon “of mass death and destruction” in the complaint. Routh, a convicted felon, is charged with unlawful possession of a firearm as well as one with an obliterated serial number.

The FBI has determined Routh’s motive to be an attempted assassination of President Trump based on a lengthy history of public statements he made on social media. The Hawaii resident has had numerous run-ins with the law, including a 2002 standoff with police which he triggered by placing his hand on a weapon during questioning. Authorities are attempting to determine how and when he obtained the rifle and are working to reconstruct the serial number in order to trace the gun back to its point of sale.

Another major security lapse around President Trump is a grave error for the embattled Secret Service, which was still reeling from the July 13th assassination attempt. U.S. House investigators and the FBI are continuing to probe how a 20-year-old gunman was able to obtain a line of sight to President Trump and fire from a rooftop. The former Secret Service director resigned days later, and since then acting director Robert Rowe has testified that the agency is understaffed, short on the latest technology, and suffers from poor morale. Internal emails between agents included the prediction that another attack on Trump’s life would be “imminent,” a haunting prediction that came true after Sunday’s events.

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