Former Attorney General William Barr has blasted the Biden-Harris administration’s Department of Justice (DOJ) for promoting a bounty of President Donald Trump’s life.
Barr says he is “dumbfounded” that the Biden-Harris DOJ released a chilling letter penned by would-be assassin Ryan Wesley Routh on Monday.
He called the decision “rash” and warned that it serves no purpose “other than to risk inciting further violence.”
Routh is the suspect in Trump’s second foiled assassination attempt.
The DOJ obtained the letter from a witness who says they received it inside a box delivered to them by Routh several months before the assassination attempt.
The box contained several handwritten letters as well as ammunition, among other things.
One of the letters, addressed “Dear World,” admitted to an assassination attempt on Trump.
The DOJ announced that Routh’s letter also offered a whopping $150,000 reward to anyone willing to finish the job by murdering Trump.
“I was dumbfounded that the DOJ made public this morning the contents of the letter that, Ryan Routh, left with an acquaintance prior to the attempted assassination of former President Trump,” Barr said in a statement.
“The letter calls on people to ‘finish the job’ of killing President Trump, attempts to rouse people in incendiary terms to do so, and offers $150,000 to anyone who succeeds,” he continued.
“There was no apparent justification for releasing this information at this stage.”
Barr, who served during both the Trump and George H. W. Bush administrations, says that “DOJ had more than enough evidence to have Routh detained pending trial, without publicizing these details.”
“Even if DOJ thought it important to provide the letter to the court, it could have redacted inflammatory material or arranged to have the letter submitted under seal.
“It was rash to put out this letter in the midst of an election during which two attempts on the life of President Trump had been made,” Barr said.
“It served no purpose other than to risk inciting further violence.”
Routh showed up at Trump’s Palm Beach golf club on September 14 with a rifle and other paraphernalia.
He was hiding in bushes close to where Trump was about to play when the Secret Service apprehended him.
Thankfully, Routh never got the chance to fire a shot at the 45th president.
However, his damage wasn’t quite done after the Justice Department released contents of a letter he purportedly penned to the public.
“This was an assassination attempt on Donald Trump, but I failed you…I tried my best and gave it all the gumption I could muster,” the 58-year-old said in his handwritten letter.
“I will offer $150,000 to whomever can complete the job,” Routh wrote.
It’s not surprising that the ramblings of a crazed gunman included such a promise.
However, it is unfathomable that the Biden-Harris administration would allow it to see the light of day in the press.
Donald Trump Jr. railed against this decision, especially since Harris is his father’s political opponent in the 2024 presidential election.
The younger Trump also compared it to the way the government handled the manifesto of Audrey Hale, the leftist transgender shooter who shot and killed three children and three adults at a Tennessee school last year.
“WTF!? Why is Kamala’s DOJ publicizing Ryan Wesley Routh putting a bounty on my dad’s head???,” Donald Trump Jr. wrote.
“His motives are unknown folks!!!!” the younger Trump wrote in a follow-up post on X.
“DOJ releasing this in a week but not the trans killer manifesto for months isn’t signaling anything.”
His motives are unknown folks!!!! DOJ releasing this in a week but not the trans killer manifesto for months isn’t signaling anything.
— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) September 23, 2024
Portions of Hale’s manifesto leaked to the press confirmed that she was gender-confused and raised suspicions about authorities’ reluctance to release it.
This was the second attempt made on Trump’s life, and the DOJ isn’t being too careful about preventing a third.
These attempts on Trump’s life have so far been unsuccessful.
Releasing a call to arms that comes with a reward is all but asking for a third attempt to be successful.
