A federal jury on September 23, 2025, delivered a necessary verdict when it found Ryan Wesley Routh guilty of attempting to assassinate President Donald J. Trump at the West Palm Beach golf course last year. This wasn’t some isolated act of madness; prosecutors showed a chilling pattern of planning and intent that threatened not just one man but the very normal functioning of our democracy and the safety of public servants. The Department of Justice made clear the severity of the crimes and the gravity of the sentence that could follow.
The courtroom scene after the verdict only underscored how dark and dangerous this moment was for the country: as guilty verdicts were read, Routh attempted to stab himself with a pen and had to be subdued by U.S. marshals while onlookers, including his distraught daughter, reacted in horror. That display of instability does not lessen the danger he posed — it amplifies it, and it should make every American grateful to the agents who intercepted a planned sniper attack. The visuals from the courthouse were stark proof that our security apparatus acted in time.
Justice will be served at sentencing, and the possibility of life behind bars for Routh is appropriate given the attempted political murder and the clear intent shown by investigators. The DOJ’s swift, thorough prosecution sends a message that political violence will be punished to the full extent of the law, something Democrats and Republicans alike ought to praise even when they refuse to put politics aside. We must insist that the courts continue to protect leaders and citizens from partisan rage dressed up as ideology.
All of this comes at a time when political violence seems to be creeping into the mainstream conversation, and the media’s selective outrage hasn’t helped calm the nation. Conservative voices like Greg Kelly are right to call out strange coincidences and institutional slip-ups when public safety is at stake, because “wasn’t happenstance” is exactly the attitude we should have when the stakes are this high. Americans deserve straightforward reporting and real accountability, not spin and soft-pedaling when the target is someone they dislike.
Meanwhile, President Trump used the United Nations podium on September 23, 2025, to deliver a bracing America First message, ripping open the failures of globalist elites on migration, energy, and national sovereignty. He didn’t mince words about the U.N.’s ineffectiveness, calling out policies that weaken Western nations and demanding that sovereign countries put their citizens first. For patriots who have watched decades of woke bureaucrats hand authority to international technocrats, this speech was long overdue.
If you watched the feed, something else looked off — the “weirdness” Greg Kelly highlighted: mechanical glitches and teleprompter problems and an escalator incident that officials scrambled to explain away. Whether it was bureaucratic incompetence or worse, the optics were terrible at a moment when a robust, clear American presence needed to be projected on the world stage. Real leaders notice patterns, and ordinary Americans are right to demand transparency about how this happened in the heart of the United Nations.
Patriots know the difference between honest mistakes and a culture that prefers chaos to order. We should applaud the law enforcement professionals who stopped a would-be assassin, thank the jurors who upheld justice, and back a president who refuses to bow to globalist nonsense at the U.N. Above all, we must remain vigilant — secure our borders, secure our institutions, and never accept a shrug when American safety and sovereignty are put at risk.
