Second alleged Trump assassin writes jailhouse letter and name checks first gunman

The man charged with the second alleged assassination attempt on Donald Trump has said he and the gunman who first tried to kill the president-elect in July were both “ready to die for freedom and democracy” in a bizarre letter written from prison.
Ryan Routh penned the letter from a federal detention center in Miami and addressed it to a Politico reporter prior to the presidential election.
In it, the 58-year-old drew a comparison between himself and gunman Thomas Matthew Crooks, who almost killed Trump during a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, on July 13 when he opened fire from a nearby rooftop, the outlet revealed. Crooks was shot dead at the scene by a Secret Service sniper.