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JESSE WATTERS: The more we look into Ryan Routh's history, the stranger it gets

Fox News host Jesse Watters says Ryan Routh has gotten an 'unusual amount of publicity his entire life' on 'Jesse Watters Primetime.'

Fox News host Jesse Watters takes a look at suspected would-be assassin Ryan Routh's background in his opening monologue on "Jesse Watters Primetime."

JESSE WATTERS: We finally got our hands on the mug shot of Donald Trump's second assassin, Ryan Routh, sporting a sickening smirk just hours after he dropped his rifle and scampered away from Secret Service gunfire. Last night on Long Island, Donald Trump seemed genuinely humbled. 

God was watching because new photos from inside the sniper's nest show just how close of a call this was. If Trump had made it to the sixth green, this would have been Routh's line of sight. That's an even easier shot than what Thomas Crooks had in Butler. Here's exactly what Ryan Routh did. 

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The whole thing is strange. And the more we look into this assassin's history, the stranger it gets. Ryan Routh doesn't have the typical resume of an assassin. His father was a chemist from a good college who had a long career at Sherwin-Williams. The family was at church every Sunday. Routh's two siblings went on to be a banker and a lawyer. Routh was described as a "super citizen" in the local paper. 

A local police organization named him the Citizen of the Year after he saved a woman from a rapist. He told the paper in town "He punched me. He was a pretty strong fella, kind of short, but strong. When he hit me, I grabbed hold of him. He shook free from me and took off running."

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