{"id":1392,"date":"2024-09-16T20:20:36","date_gmt":"2024-09-16T14:50:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ainews.prativad.com\/index.php\/convict-zelensky-fanboy-would-be-trump-assassin-who-is-ryan-routh\/"},"modified":"2024-09-16T20:20:36","modified_gmt":"2024-09-16T14:50:36","slug":"convict-zelensky-fanboy-would-be-trump-assassin-who-is-ryan-routh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ainews.prativad.com\/index.php\/convict-zelensky-fanboy-would-be-trump-assassin-who-is-ryan-routh\/","title":{"rendered":"Convict, Zelensky fanboy, would-be Trump assassin: Who is Ryan Routh?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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58-year-old American named by media as the suspect in the failed attack on Trump appears to have had a colorful personal history<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ryan Wesley Routh, whom the US media identified as the gunman who allegedly targeted former President Donald Trump on Sunday, is to be subjected to a mental health evaluation, according to sources cited by CNN. Federal authorities reportedly requested the measure due to \u201cunusual rants\u201d<\/em> the suspect posted online.<\/p>\n

The 58-year-old man apparently has an unusual past. It includes a criminal conviction decades ago, trying to recruit US-trained Afghan fighters to join the Ukrainian military, and writing a self-published book, in which he ponders, among other things, why Russian President Vladimir Putin \u201chas not been killed yet.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

The presumed would-be shooter was taken into custody on Sunday shortly after fleeing Trump\u2019s golf course in West Palm Beach, Florida. At the time of writing, officials have not named him or charged him with any crime, but images and reports by media leave few doubts about the man\u2019s identity.<\/p>\n

A profile posted by Associated Press says that Routh lived most of his life in North Carolina, but moved to Kaaawa, Hawaii in 2018. In 2020, he donated to the Democratic Party\u2019s presidential campaign of then-US Rep. Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii, according to records.<\/p>\n

Apparent Facebook & X\/Twitter accounts of alleged suspect in another attempt to assassinate Trump are filled with support of proxy war in Ukraine, including personal involvement in recruiting of foreigners to fight & trip to Ukraine. His Facebook account, which I examined, is now\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/Rqzv1pQ8PC<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Ivan Katchanovski (@I_Katchanovski) September 15, 2024<\/a> <\/p>\n

Facebook and X have scrubbed the content of accounts that Routh is believed to have held in his name, though not before some media outlets researched them. In 2020, he reportedly urged then-President Trump to crack down on police misconduct to secure reelection, and said he\u2019d voted for the Republican in 2016. His political preference appears to have switched to the Democrats since.<\/p>\n

Criminal records reveal that while living in Greensboro, North Carolina Routh had multiple run-ins with the police. In 2002, he was convicted of possession of a weapon of mass destruction. The charge, according to local press, related to a fully automatic machine gun, over which he had a three-hour armed standoff with law enforcement. Routh, who was 36 at the time, barricaded himself at his business following a combative traffic stop.<\/p>\n

it just goes on and on and on like this pic.twitter.com\/cvgvUIXPTa<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 austerity is theft \ud83c\uddff\ud83c\udde6 (@wideofthepost) September 15, 2024<\/a> <\/p>\n

In 2022, Routh apparently found himself a cause he considered worthy. Since the outbreak of the Ukraine conflict, he was declaring online his willingness to go to Ukraine and die for the country fighting Russia. The conflict, he explained to Newsweek, is \u201cblack and white\u201d<\/em> and \u201cgood versus evil\u201d<\/em> like in books and movies.<\/p>\n

Second Trump assassin, Ryan Wesley Routh, was connected to Rep Adam Kinzinger through his support of Ukraine. Here he\u2019s being interviewed by Newsweek about his effort to recruit mercenaries to fight in Ukraine. pic.twitter.com\/6SnLYFkHv7<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 @amuse (@amuse) September 15, 2024<\/a> <\/p>\n

He did travel to Europe and seek a place in the Ukrainian military but his overtures were rejected by Kiev. So, instead he joined the crowd of activists and NGOs raising aid for the Ukrainians, and recruiting foreign fighters willing to take up arms for the country.<\/p>\n

That did not seem to work out particularly well either. In an interview with Semaphore in 2023, Routh complained that the Ukrainians were \u201cafraid that anybody and everybody is a Russian spy.\u201d<\/em> He was explaining his pet project of getting a group of former Afghan commandos, who\u2019d fled from the Taliban, to join the Ukrainian military, and why it failed.<\/p>\n

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At about the same time he was featured in a New York Times story about \u201cUS volunteers in Ukraine, who lie, waste and bicker,\u201d<\/em> as the title said. The article converted some higher-profile figures in the pro-Kiev circuit, such as former MSNBC commentator Malcolm Nance, and US military veteran James Vasquez, who became a minor online celebrity by posting battlefield videos, before getting in trouble for lying about his combat experience. Routh, according to Newsweek Romania journalist Remus Cernea, who interviewed him, came across as \u201can idealistic, innocent, genuine person.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Routh\u2019s disillusionment did not discourage him from rooting for Ukraine and sharing online the messages of its leader, Vladimir Zelensky. He also seemed to want to lay the ground for foreign fighters to go and fight against China for the self-governed island of Taiwan. He was involved with a website named Taiwan Foreign Legion, apparently modeled after Ukraine\u2019s efforts to enlist foreign troops.<\/p>\n

Would-be Trump shooter Ryan Routh has published a 291 page book, \u201cUnwinnable War,\u201d about his time in Ukraine\u2019s Int\u2019l Legion<\/p>\n

Routh says he\u2019d like to see Putin assassinated, seems to hope for Trump\u2019s assassination as well, and calls for the US to \u201cinstigate\u201d a nuclear war with\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/z4ZNPxwpov<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Max Blumenthal (@MaxBlumenthal) September 16, 2024<\/a> <\/p>\n

The man also apparently penned a book titled \u2018Ukraine\u2019s Unwinnable War: The Fatal Flaw of Democracy, World Abandonment and the Global Citizen \u2013 Taiwan, Afghanistan, North Korea and the end of Humanity.\u2019 It was sold through Amazon but had no publisher, it seems, or even an editor.<\/p>\n

According to excerpts from it, which were shared by journalist Max Blumenthal, Routh was perplexed that no insider would assassinate Russian President Vladimir Putin.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe swirling question in every chat around the world is to why Putin has not been killed yet. In the USA we have many killed; JFK, MLK, Robert Kennedy, Malcolm X, John Lennon, Tupac, Biggie, Jimmy Hoffa; so many that we cannot even remember them all,\u201d<\/em> he wrote, without explaining the comparison. \u201cWhat has happened to the Russian people that they are brainwashed into totally blind sheep.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

In another passage he appeared to apologize to Iran for Joe Biden\u2019s failure to revive the 2015 nuclear deal, which Trump scrapped during his presidency. He said Tehran was \u201cfree to assassinate Trump as well as me\u201d<\/em> for the \u201cerror\u201d<\/em> of voting for Biden.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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