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Seven questions about Ryan Routh, the second aspiring Trump assassin

Unless you live under a rock, you’ve probably heard about the recent incident involving another attempted assassination against President Trump. I’ve done quite a bit of research on the profile of charged suspect Ryan Routh, and I have some questions about the overall situation.

  1. Was Ryan Routh directed or encouraged to carry out an attack by any domestic or foreign governments?

Routh had countless contacts overseas in Eastern Europe and Asia. He was in constant contact with militants and aspiring warfighters in Ukraine, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran, and elsewhere. He spent quite a bit of time in Ukraine in 2022.

On the domestic front, it’s no secret that our politicized law enforcement and intelligence agencies have involved high-profile public figures in past ploys. We must also not forget that elements of U.S. intelligence services dedicated the entirety of the Trump presidency to attempting to destroy the man. Sadly, we can’t rule out the troublesome possibility that Routh (and perhaps Crooks before him) is the upgrade from information operation to kinetic operation.

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How Does Ukraine Try to Distance Itself From Suspected Trump Assassin?

Routh pointed an assault rifle at Donald Trump on his Florida golf course on September 15, in what became the second assassination attempt on the 45th US president since July.

It seems the Kiev regime is desperately trying to brush off Ukraine’s links to purported would-be Trump shooter Ryan Wesley Routh, following his claims (on X and in interviews) about his involvement in the Ukraine conflict.

First and foremost, Volodymyr Zelensky was quick to condemn the assassination attempt, claiming that he’s “glad to hear” that Trump is “safe and unharmed.”

Zelensky then went further by extending his “best wishes” to the 45th US president and his family and adding that “It’s good that the suspect was apprehended quickly.”

In the same vein, the International Legion of Ukraine, a unit with the Ukrainian Ground Forces, argued that it had no association with Routh.

“American citizen Ryan Routh has never served in the International Legion and has no relation to the unit. Rumors disseminated in certain media are not true,” the unit said in a statement.

The Guardian has meanwhile cited the legion as saying that Routh’s ideas about what he once called “a black and white” Ukraine conflict were “delusional.”

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Ukraine confirms contact with Trump shooter

The American man who allegedly tried to assassinate Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump had visited Kiev and offered his services to Ukraine, but was rejected, the Ukrainian military said on Monday.

Ryan Wesley Routh, 58, was arrested on Sunday after the US Secret Service spotted him at Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Florida. His social media posts and a self-published book claimed involvement with the Ukrainian military.

On Monday, the Ukrainian Land Forces Command confirmed to CNN that Routh had been in touch with them, but described his ideas as “delusional” and denied having accepted his services at any point.

“He was offering us large numbers of recruits from different countries but it was obvious to us his offers were not realistic,” Aleksandr Shaguri, a military spokesman, told CNN. “We didn’t even answer, there was nothing to answer to. He was never part of the Legion and didn’t cooperate with us in any way.”

Routh espoused multiple “delusional ideas,” Shaguri told the outlet.

In the summer of 2022, Routh visited Ukraine and gave multiple interviews to Western media outlets, presenting himself as a liaison to the government in Kiev and seeking to enlist pro-US fighters from Afghanistan for the Ukrainian cause. In one such interview, Routh told Newsweek Romania journalist Remus Cernea he was recruiting people for the International Legion of Ukraine.

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Team Trump Blames Assassination Attempts on ‘Communist Left Rhetoric’ and Brings Receipts to Prove It

The Trump-Vance Campaign declared on Monday that left-wing hate speech was to blame for the second assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump’s life, and provided dozens of examples of the Democrats’ “increasingly incendiary rhetoric.”

On Sunday,  Ryan Wesley Routh, 58, a Biden-Harris supporter, Democrat donor and pro-Ukraine activist with an extensive criminal background, attempted to shoot Trump through a fence at his International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Florida.

After Trump’s Secret Service detail fired at Routh, he took off in a black Nissan, leaving his backpack, GoPro camera and AK-47 style rifle behind. He was quickly apprehended speeding away on I-95.

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis announced Sunday night that the State of Florida will be conducting its own investigation into this latest attempted assassination of Trump.

“I understand that the feds are involved but I do believe that there were multiple violations of state law,” he said during a press conference. “We also believe that there is a need to make sure that the truth about all this comes out in a way that’s credible.”

DeSantis added that a separate investigation was needed because the Biden regime has a perceived conflict of interest.

“I look at the federal government with all due respect to them—those same agencies are prosecuting Trump in that jurisdiction are now going to be investigating this? I just think that that may not be the best thing for this country,” he said.

Team Trump, meanwhile, appears to have developed its own theory as to the motive of the suspect.

“Make no mistake, this psycho was egged on by the rhetoric and lies that have flowed from Kamala Harris, Democrats, and their Fake News allies for years,” the Trump Campaign said in a press release, Monday.

On social media, Routh appeared to have been influenced by the Biden-Harris regime’s incessant messaging about Trump being a “threat to Democracy.”

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12 Actors and Journalists Who Compared Trump to Hitler, Called for Violence, Before Second Assassination Attempt

Ahead of the second assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump, many influential actors, journalists, and influencers warned that Trump is an “existential threat” to democracy, compared him to Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler, and suggested he or his supporters should face violent attacks. Some continued attacking Trump even after the first assassination attempt July 13.

The New Tolerance Campaign, a nonprofit watchdog aimed at confronting “intolerance double standards” practiced by “establishment institutions, civil rights groups, universities, and socially conscious brands,” compiled a list of extreme rhetoric against Trump that may have contributed to the second assassination attempt.

“New Tolerance Campaign research has shown two kinds of consistent and consistently charged rhetoric surrounding President Trump: insistence that his reelection would lead to the collapse of the country, and calls for the former president’s death,” Gregory T. Angelo, New Tolerance Campaign’s president, told The Daily Signal in a written statement Monday. (New Tolerance Campaign has taken to exposing extremism on the Left, to balance the impact of left-leaning groups like the Southern Poverty Law Center.)

“These proclamations aren’t sarcastic; they’re literal, and they’re being spoken by high-profile politicians and members of the mainstream media with massive audiences,” Angelo added. “It’s shocking that there have been two attempts on President Trump’s life, but not surprising given the existential hyperbole about him pounding Americans’ ears day in and day out.”

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Social Media Claims That Ukraine-Tied Trump Assassin Will Get ‘Epsteined’

Critics on social media speculated that Ryan Wesley Routh, the accused-attempted assassin behind the second threat to Donald Trump’s life, could face a fatal outcome in jail. Some even suggested on Monday he might end up being “Epsteined.”

The term refers to Jeffrey Epstein, the convicted sex offender whose controversial death left many questions unanswered, including the roles of powerful figures who visited his estates or may have assisted in his crimes.

These comments suggested that Routh might face a similar fate, possibly being silenced about mounting questions surrounding his finances and connections to others involved in the foiled assassination attempt on Trump.

“He’s in federal custody, unfortunately. Chances of being Epsteined just went up tremendously,” wrote independent journalist Nick Sortor to his 527,000 followers on X.

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NY Times Calls Trump Would-Be Assassin Ryan Routh a ‘Crusader For Causes Large and Small’

The New York Times penned another glowing profile of Trump would-be assassin Ryan Routh, portraying him as a “crusader for causes large and small.”

Just two days after Routh was arrested on two gun charges after he had been waiting in the bushes of Trump’s West Palm Beach golf course with a scope-mounted rifle and GoPro camera, the New York Times published a flattering editorial of the 58-year-old mercenary.

From The Times:

How Mr. Routh, a peripatetic activist and building contractor with an extensive criminal record, came to possess a semiautomatic rifle, learn of Mr. Trump’s weekend whereabouts and wait for him on the edge of the Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Fla., remains unknown.

But a review of public records and Mr. Routh’s writings, as well as interviews with people who knew him, suggest that he saw himself as an active and influential participant in momentous world events, while becoming estranged from at least some of his family and nearly destitute in the process.

Mr. Routh has been a serial crusader for causes large and small dating back to at least 1996, when he campaigned against graffiti in Greensboro, N.C., where he lived for decades. In July, he urged President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris on the social media platform X to visit the victims of the assassination attempt against Mr. Trump in Butler, Pa., writing that “Trump will never do anything for them.”

“Show the world what compassion and humanity is all about,” Mr. Routh wrote on July 16.

In other social media posts, he tagged world leaders and celebrities like Elton John and Elon Musk, often providing his phone number and email as if expecting a response.

The paper described how Routh began recruiting for Ukraine after he was denied a place on the frontline due to his age and lack of experience.

“Mr. Routh had set up a website called ‘Fight for Ukraine,’ in which he explained how to travel there and join the Ukrainian army as a foreign fighter. For the better part of a year, his main focus was getting hundreds of Afghan soldiers, who had fled after their country’s government collapsed, to fight for Ukraine,” the Times wrote.

While The Times noted that some of his recruiting methods were illegal, the paper commended his tenacity.

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Erik Prince on Trump Assassins Appearing in BlackRock Commercials, “The Statistical Likelihood of that Being Random Is Impossible”

Former Navy SEAL and founder of the private military company Blackwater, Erik Prince, joined Natalie Winters on The War Room on Tuesday to discuss the second unsuccessful assassination attempt against President Donald Trump in two months.

During their discussion Erik Prince pointed out the odd coincidence that both Trump failed assassins, Thomas Crooks and Ryan Wesley Routh, were both featured in a BlackRock commercial.

Prince told Natalie Winters, “There’s some indication that shows both the Butler shooter and yesterday’s shooter both appeared in BlackRock TV commercials. The statistical likelihood of that being random is impossible.”

Prince also said the feds have lost all credibility in investigating the Trump would-be assassins.

Here is the full exchange:

Erik Prince: There’s one other weird thread. There’s some indication that shows both the Butler shooter and this guy yesterday both appeared in BlackRock TV commercials. The statistical likelihood of that being random is impossible.

So that’s why I got animated last night about how Florida needs to take the lead in this investigation because I just don’t see the federal government. I don’t see the FBI doing any adequate job.

The Miami field office, the head agent there, was instructed to scrub all his social media before he was appointed there because he was so brilliantly anti-Trump. This is the same field office that rated Mar-a-Lago on that bogus documents case.

So if we think that they’re going to be suddenly truth-seeking, the same guys that indicted him on complete nonsense charges were kidding ourselves.

And, so I really want Florida to flex up and assert, I mean, look, this is attempted murder in the state of Florida. It’s not just a federal crime, that’s a state crime. And I think the feds have lost any and all credibility on this.

We don’t know anything more about the Butler shooter. The Dems have tried to, the media has just tried to memory hold that as if something that doesn’t exist.

And now we have two shooting attempts, two assassination attempts on the for President, unprecedented in American history.

These threads have to be unspiraled, unwound, and the truth must come out because the The Left with their over-the-top, vitriolic, super-toxic language saying, Trump must be eliminated. He’s a threat to democracy. He’s Hitler, Hitler, Hitler. That gives license to every crazy left wing nut job to try to go after him.

And this guy had his final firing position. He was there for 12 hours with the ballistic plates against the fence, trying to give himself some cover from counter snipers.

And he had his GoPro posted there, mounted, ready because he was trophy hunting. He was there to be the hero of the left to say, I kill Donald Trump. I am the savior of democracy.

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CNN’s Dana Bash Claims Second Would-be Assassin’s ‘Anti-Trump Posts’ Have ‘Nothing to do With’ Current Admin

In a recent development surrounding Donald Trump’s second assassination attempt, CNN’s Dana Bash provided a clear rebuttal to the former president’s claims regarding the involvement of Vice President Kamala Harris and President Joe Biden. 

The internet, however, has its counter arguments for Bash; with one of the biggest examples of the shooter’s adherence to the Democrat party being a Trump-Harris bumper sticker found on a truck he used.

During a Monday interview on “CNN Newsroom with Wolf Blitzer,” Bash addressed the former president’s accusations that Harris and Biden’s rhetoric was influencing threats against him.

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2nd Trump Assassination Attempt Suspect Was Subject of 2019 FBI Tip: Special Agent

An FBI special agent on Monday said that Trump assassination attempt suspect Ryan Wesley Routh was the subject of a tip to the federal law enforcement agency in 2019 about illegally possessing a firearm.

“Following up on the tip, the alleged complainant was interviewed and … did not verify providing the initial information,” FBI Special Agent in Charge Jeffrey B Veltri told a press conference. “The FBI passed that information to local law enforcement in Honolulu.”

Veltri provided no other details about the tip or the ensuing investigation, which he said was later closed.

He said that Routh, who has been charged with felony gun charges in connection to the incident, was taken into custody by the Martin County Sheriff’s Office in Florida and taken back to the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office.

“Our FBI agents then attempted to interview him, and he invoked his right to an attorney,” Veltri said at the event.

The Department of Justice (DOJ) said that Routh, who appeared in a federal courthouse earlier Monday, hid for 12 hours near the Trump International Golf Club perimeter and stuck the muzzle of an SKS-style rifle through a fence while the former president was golfing. The rifle, which had a scope on it, as well as a bag of food, two backpacks, and a GoPro camera were recovered, officials have said.

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