A man accused of bringing a gun to Donald Trump’s golf club in South Florida with in an intent to shoot the former president actually voted for the Republican in 2016 before growing disillusioned with him, according to social media posts that show he went on to support former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, D-Hawaii, before backing what he saw as a 2024 unity ticket of GOP candidates Nikki Haley and Vivek Ramaswamy.

On Sunday, Secret Service agents opened fire after spotting a man with a rifle on the perimeter of Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, roughly 400 yards from where the Republican candidate was standing. The man, identified as 58-year-old Ryan Wesley Routh, fled the scene and was arrested shortly later without incident.

It is the second time this summer that Trump has been the target of an apparent assassination attempt, raising questions about the Secret Service’s ability to protect their charge. It is also the second time that the accused perpetrator has been someone with unclear motivations and head-scratching politics.

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Thomas Matthew Crooks, the 20-year-old who opened fire at a Trump rally in Pennsylvania this past July, was a registered Republican who some peers described as conservative but who also donated $15 years earlier to ActBlue, a clearinghouse for liberal causes.

In a June 2020 post, Routh identified himself as a........

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