Ryan Routh's 'poor man's surveillance' enough to scout out spot to target Trump: expert
The suspect in the second failed Trump assassination attempt, Ryan Routh, may have relied on "poor man's surveillance" to target the 45th president as he waited about 12 hours outside the golf club before his arrest on Sunday.
Bill Stanton, a former NYPD officer and an executive protection expert, spoke with Fox News Digital on Tuesday regarding security failures surrounding the second attempt on Trump's life. Authorities have not yet confirmed how Routh knew Trump would be on that golf course Sunday afternoon, with Stanton saying the suspect may have employed a laser focus on Trump — which he called "Forrest Gump focus" in a nod to the classic 1994 movie — and simply Googled Trump's frequent non-campaign activities to stake out a location.
"If you have someone with like, this Forrest Gump focus… he could have done a journeyman's research on Google," Stanton said, and simply searched, "Where does Trump usually go when he's home in Florida?" before heading to Trump's golf club in West Palm Beach.
"If I'm that guy, I'm doing that, and then I'm going to do a poor man's surveillance," Stanton said, explaining the suspect would keep his eyes peeled for Trump's caravan to roll up to the course.
"I'm guessing [Trump] has a lead car. I'm guessing he has his main car and then the chase car. So that's a little motorcade. That's at minimum three cars, not to mention the advance car. So that's about four vehicles right there, and [Routh] could have guessed it," Stanton said of Routh likely monitoring the club for Trump's motorcade ahead of the attempt.
News broke Sunday afternoon that Trump had been safely escorted from the course at his Trump International Golf Club West Palm Beach after reports of gunfire in his vicinity. Trump was not injured during what is being investigated as a likely assassination attempt, with the suspect identified as a 58-year-old man from Hawaii, Ryan Wesley Routh.
Federal authorities on Monday released charging documents related to Routh's charges stemming from the suspected assassination attempt, and found Routh's phone was located near the golf club for about 12 hours, beginning at 1:59 a.m. Sunday until approximately 1:31 p.m. that same day.
"Agents requested T-Mobile , on an emergency basis, to provide law enforcement with information pertaining to Routh's mobile phone usage. Those records indicated that Routh's mobile phone was located in the vicinity of the area along the tree line from approximately 1:59 AM until approximately 1:31 PM on September 15," the charging document reads.
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