The 58-year-old man who was arrested traveled to Ukraine in 2022 to protest against the Russian invasion. He used to express his ideals on social media.
This Sunday, September 15, it was reported a new assassination attempt against the former president of USA , Donald Trump who is running as a candidate for the presidential elections which will take place in November.
The Republican Party standard-bearer was at his golf club in West Palm Beach, Florida, when Secret Service agents saw a subject equipped with an AK-47 style weapon who was aiming a telescope through a fence.
Faced with this imminent scenario, They opened fire on the suspect .
Although he tried to escape, he was later arrested. as he was heading towards the L-95 highway in a vehicle.
The man was identified as Ryan Wesley Routh, 58. and authorities believe he planned to shoot the former president while he was playing the sport.
However, Trump is unharmed and law enforcement officials have not said whether the individual successfully pulled the trigger in that case.
Although Routh has previously expressed support for Trump, In recent years, he has adopted a critical stance towards the former president .
He also spoke out against Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and expressed his views on various issues. of international caliber.
In the same way, He has had many run-ins with the law. .
What do we know about Ryan Wesley Routh, the suspect in planning the attack on Trump?
North Carolina court records detail that He has a criminal record for both minor and serious crimes. ranging from traffic violations and possession of stolen property to weapons-related offenses.
Public documents also show that registered as an “unaffiliated” voter in 2012 and, in March 2024, voted in that state’s Democratic primary .
Routh owns a small construction company in Hawaii according to the data retrieved by cnn .
On his LinkedIn profile, the man says he founded the company – called Camp Box Honolulu – in 2018 and that is dedicated to the construction of storage units and housing .
An article from the Hawaii newspaper, Honolulu’s Featured Announcer reported in 2019 that Routh had pledged to build tiny houses for the homeless .
Various American media outlets claim that Since the 1990s, he has been involved in several legal cases due to situations such as not paying your taxes on time.
Likewise, the judges sentenced him to pay tens of thousands of dollars in civil lawsuits .
Routh’s social media posts suggest that voted for Trump in 2016 and supported his re-election in 2020 according to a study by BBC .
However, according to the news agency PA , In recent years, he has expressed support for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. .
After the incident in Florida, police said he was believed to have been linked to a social media account in which he urged foreign fighters to travel to Ukraine to fight against Russian forces.
In 2023, Routh declared the New York Times that He visited the country after the Kremlin’s invasion began. February 24, 2022.
He also said that wanted to recruit Afghan soldiers who had fled the Taliban so that they would fight alongside Ukrainian troops.
He added that were considering transferring them, in some cases illegally, from Pakistan and Iran to Ukraine.
A Facebook post reviewed by the BBC and corresponding to an account believed to be Routh’s stated the following in July: “Soldiers, please don’t call me.” .
“Always We are trying to get Ukraine to accept Afghan soldiers and we hope to have answers in the coming months… be patient.
According to CNN, demonstrated in kyiv against the Russian invasion and published a 291-page self-published book in which he expressed his political ideas.
They describe it as a subject that He frequently shared his opinions on social media, on topics related to both the United States and other parts of the world. .
His book is called The Unwinnable War in Ukraine : Democracy’s Fatal Flaw, World Abandonment, and the Global Citizen – Taiwan, Afghanistan, North Korea, and the End of Humanity.
In the said writing, Routh called the former president’s withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal in 2018 a “terrible mistake.” because, according to him, this would have brought the country closer to Russia and facilitated the subsequent offensive against Ukraine.
Moreover, as the title of the book indicates, He commented on the situations in Taiwan, Afghanistan and North Korea, as well as what he called “the end of humanity.” .
In numerous posts on X (formerly Twitter) in 2022, he expressed his support for the nation of President Volodymyr Zelensky and He said he was ready to die in combat .
“We must reduce the Kremlin to ashes” he stressed in one of these messages.
Officer of the Foreigners Coordination Department of the Ukrainian Land Forces Command Oleksandr Shaguri told the aforementioned media outlets that Routh contacted them several times, but confirmed that he was never part of the military unit in which volunteers from other countries fought. .
“The best way to describe your messages is: delusional ideas ” he said.
Shaguri said that Routh “offered a large number of recruits from different countries but it was obvious to us that their offers were not realistic.
“We didn’t even respond, there was nothing to respond to. He was never part of the legion and did not cooperate with us in any way. “, the officer stressed.
The journalist of Newsweek Romania Remus Cernea, said that met Routh at Independence Square in kyiv in June 2022 about four months after the start of the war.
He assured that the American sought to rally people to support Ukraine, either by joining the Foreign Legion or through organizations humanitarian aid.
Cernea told CNN that for him, what happened in Florida “is a surprise, because I saw him as an idealistic, innocent and authentic person, without any murderous instinct. “.
In kyiv, Routh gave an interview to the agency AFP in April 2022, during which accused that Russian President Vladimir Putin “is a terrorist” .
“This must be stopped. “So we need everyone in the world to stop what they are doing and come here now to support the Ukrainians and end this war.”
After his arrest and the investigation into the case was reported as attempted murder, his eldest son, Oran Routh, assured that his father was “a loving and caring father, an honest and hard-working man” .
“I don’t know what happened in Florida, yeahI hope things have been exaggerated. The man I know wouldn’t do anything crazy, much less violence. ” he condemned the aforementioned media.
Source: Latercera
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