Thomas Crooks thankfully failed in his quest to assassinate Donald Trump, and now Ryan Routh is joining him in that failure — after a second attempt on the former president’s life. The attempt came 14 days after Vice President Kamala Harris posted a photo of Trump on her social media that read “Donald Trump vows to be a dictator on day one,” with the caption “We won’t let him.” “Do you think that this is not correlated? Do you think that the rhetoric from the left calling Trump Hitler, calling him an authoritarian, calling him a dictator, calling him evil, telling women that he’s trying to take over their bodies, telling LGBTQIA-identifying people that he’s trying to marginalize them and genocide them, that his policies will kill them?” Liz Wheeler of “The Liz Wheeler Show” comments. Wheeler also notes that from what we know about Routh, he doesn’t seem to be “a babbling schizophrenic hearing voices telling him to kill Donald Trump.” “He seems like an individual who fell for the rhetoric of the mainstream media calling Trump Hitler, feeling like he would be doing a service to humanity to take Trump out,” she explains. Routh also reportedly had a Kamala Harris bumper stick on his truck. “I hate to have to say this, but you are going to have to convince me that Ryan Routh is not a fed asset,” Wheeler says. “Even the Martin County Sheriff asked if this shooter was part of some conspiracy because there are so many red flags.” One of those red flags was that he was a “lone gunman” but somehow had the knowledge of exactly where Trump would be and the time he would be there. “How did a lone gunman know where president Trump was going to be on the fifth hole of his golf course at that specific time of day with an AK-47?” Wheeler asks. “He also has a really sketchy, weird foreign profile.” Routh was caught with a weapon of mass destruction and promptly arrested, before being given probation. “Imagine having a weapon of mass destruction and just getting probation,” Wheeler says, shocked. Routh has also spent a good part of a year in Ukraine and has been using his social media to recruit fighters from all over the world to come and fight for the country. “Are you telling me that the FBi didn’t know about this guy? The CIA didn’t know about this guy? The State Department didn’t know about this guy? If so, they’re completely useless,” Wheeler adds. Want more from Liz Wheeler?To enjoy more of Liz’s based commentary, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.

Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders is facing some outraged backlash after the Republican criticized Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris for not having biological children. Sanders made the comments before moderating a town hall event with former President Donald Trump in Flint, Michigan, on Tuesday. 'Kamala Harris doesn't have anything keeping her humble.' "Not only do my kids serve as a permanent reminder of what's important, they also keep me humble," said Sanders. "You can walk into a room like this where people cheer when you step onto the stage and you might think for a second that you're special. Then you go home and your kids remind you very quickly you're actually not that big of a deal. And ours are pretty good at it," she continued. "So my kids keep me humble," she added. "Unfortunately, Kamala Harris doesn't have anything keeping her humble." Harris has two stepchildren through her marriage with Doug Emhoff but has no biological children of her own. Many on the left pounced on the comments and compared them to criticism made by Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance about "childless cat ladies" before he became a candidate. "What is their obsession with women without children, the biological connection?" asked Mika Brzezinski on MSNBC. "Sarah Huckabee Sanders as ugly on the inside as she is on the outside. Gallons of Ozempic aren’t going to change that," read a popular response on X. "A woman’s worth is not defined by whether she has children or not. She is valuable & complete in her own right, with or w/o motherhood." "Why would the Trump campaign alienate women who haven’t had children—by choice or circumstance? Dividing and insulting Americans won’t win elections, but it’s clearly part of their strategy. Why?" replied former congressman Joe Walsh. On CNN, a Trump campaign senior advisor also criticized Sanders for the comments. “I found that comment to be actually offensive. I don’t know what more to say about that,” Bryan Lanza said. “I’m disappointed in Sarah saying that. I’m sure I’m going to get criticism from the campaign, but I have to sort of defend somebody who’s a stepmom. It’s a tough job. People step into that role.” Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

On Tuesday afternoon, thousands of pagers suddenly exploded in Lebanon and parts of Syria, injuring over 4,000 individuals, including numerous Hezbollah militants and Iran’s top diplomatic intermediary to Lebanon, Mojtaba Amani. Eleven individuals are currently reported dead, including one young girl and the son of a Hezbollah politician. Around 200 more individuals are critically injured in hospitals as a result of the explosions. Lebanon’s government blames the attack on “Israeli aggression” and has vowed revenge. “We hold the Israeli enemy fully responsible for this criminal aggression that also targeted civilians,” Hezbollah stated, adding that Israel will “get its just punishment.” High-ranking Hezbollah member Hussein Khalil, meanwhile, characterized the exploding pagers as the “targeting of an entire nation.” While many Americans may support this pager strike's overall aim or impact, the technological prowess on display shows how much damage can be done quickly and bizarrely in an interconnected world, even with simple devices like pagers. Israel and Iranian-supported Hezbollah have skirmished at the Israel-Lebanon border off and on since Hamas’ October 7, 2023, attack. The murderous terrorist incursion on Israeli communities and a dance festival near the border with Gaza killed 1,189 individuals, the majority civilians. Of 251 hostages seized by Hamas on October 7, 101 are still being held, including seven Americans. Hezbollah has launched volleys of missiles at Israel on an ongoing basis since that time, the majority blocked by Israel’s Iron Dome missile defense system. Israel has declined to comment on Tuesday’s pager explosions but did mention that Israel’s Shin Bet security agency had narrowly blocked an attempt by Hezbollah to assassinate a former top Israeli official just hours before the pagers began detonating. Israel also made ensuring the safe return of around 100,000 Jewish refugees displaced by conflict near the Lebanon border an official part of its war objectives on Monday night. For its part, the U.S. State Department has claimed no involvement in or prior awareness of the attack, and spokesman Matthew Miller said the government is “still gathering information” on what exactly took place in Lebanon and who was behind it. According to Axios, the exploding pager operation was green-lighted earlier in the week by Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu the day after U.S. envoy to Israel Amos Hochstein told Israel to do everything it could to de-escalate the conflict with Lebanon. Assuming the Jewish state was involved, how did operatives pull off this devastating covert strike on their enemy? At this point, all signs point to a clandestine Israeli intervention into the production process or supply chain, by which pagers bound for Hezbollah were modified to explode at a set time. Explosives expert Sean Moorhouse commented that it appeared small explosives were installed in the devices before they reached the buyers and that the act bears all the signs of “a very successful Mossad operation.” The New York Times reports that Israel did hide explosives and detonation triggers inside pagers that Hezbollah had recently ordered from the Taiwanese Gold Apollo pager manufacturing company. The company denied producing the pagers used in the attack and claimed that a different company had purchased a license to make them under the Gold Apollo brand. According to unnamed officials, the NYT reports, the pagers exploded when they got a message from a specific number. Hezbollah reportedly ordered 5,000 in the spring of the AP924 model, which appear to have been tampered with at the production level, to modify them with an explosive charge. Hezbollah members were told by their leadership to stop communicating via cell phone in February so that Israel wouldn’t track them. It is unclear exactly when Hezbollah widely used the pagers. The primary target areas affected by the explosions were a suburb in the south of Beirut, an area in the Hezbollah-controlled Beqaa region of East Lebanon, and a Hezbollah-heavy neighborhood in Damascus, Syria. Chief of the General Staff of the Israel Defense Forces Herzi Halevi holds an assessment meeting after Israeli intelligence agency Mossad allegedly planted explosives in the batteries of pager devices that detonated in Lebanon, killing nine people and injuring hundreds, on September 17, 2024. Photo by Israel Defense Forces (IDF) / Handout/Anadolu via Getty Images Israel has successfully carried out numerous deadly targeted strikes outside its territory, including, most recently, killing senior Hamas member Saleh Arouri in Beirut and assassinating the top leader of Hamas, Ismail Haniyeh, in a deadly explosion in Iran, a strike whose origin and method is still unclear. It’s worth noting that Hezbollah also lost another of its top leaders, Fuad Shukr, during fighting in July. Israel has rigged cell phones to explode in the past and is also widely credited with sabotaging Iran’s nuclear program with the powerful Stuxnet virus in 2010. Two things are clear about this pager explosion attack: Israel’s intelligence services are undoubtedly the most fearsome, ruthless, and skilled in the world; secondly, the expanding horizon of what is possible to do with technology continues to grow by the day, and an event like this is likely only the tip of the iceberg in terms of the kinds of unconventional attacks now possible to be carried out by both state and non-state actors. While many Americans may support this pager strike's overall aim or impact, the technological prowess on display shows how much damage can be done quickly and bizarrely in an interconnected world, even with simple devices like pagers. What if this power to call in highly targeted and sudden death and dismemberment were put in the wrong hands or used against patriots by an out-of-control state? It’s worth noting that one of the revelations of Edward Snowden’s leaks was that the National Security Agency frequently installs malware and tracking devices on hardware and other packages on their way to customers in the name of national security. Also of note: Biden’s 2021 infrastructure bill has a provision that allows Big Tech to shut down cars if there’s any suspicion of drunk driving. This law, giving the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration the legal right to deactivate your vehicle, potentially goes into effect in 2026.

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