The Swamp and its allies would hate you to know more about this guy.
On Sunday, September 15th, 58-year-old Ryan Routh of Hawaii showed up to Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Florida, where former President Donald Trump was golfing.
Routh reportedly shoved the barrel of a scoped polymer SKS-style rifle through the fence with the intent to fire at President Trump, who was several hundred yards away.
Authorities say Routh also had a GoPro camera, as well as two backpacks containing ceramic tile that he had hung on the fence (a type of ballistics armor is made of ceramic tile).
Secret Service agents saw Routh and fired at him. He escaped in a black Nissan before getting arrested by local police on I-95 thanks to a photograph taken by a bystander.
USA Today says Routh has a "complex history," which is code for "the man was foaming at the mouth for leftist causes."
A profile for Ryan Routh on X dates to January 2020, where he posted a range of passionate opinions on issues including Black Lives Matter, Taiwanese sovereignty and supporting Ukraine in the war with Russia.
Here is another post where Routh expresses his position on Israel:
According to Fox News, Routh spent the majority of his life in North Carolina, where he owned a company called United Roofing.
You won't be surprised that Routh was in support of Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-VT) in the 2020 election.
In 2020, during the presidential primary, the X account said: 'I was not supporting Bernie, but now I am; as sleepy Joe stands for nothing; no plans, no ideas, just as limp as hillary. Bernie.......give them hell.....fight to the death…'
Routh reportedly donated to ActBlue, a major Democratic campaign fund, at least 19 times.
I spent Sunday evening pulling together a list of information about Routh for anyone who wants to scour through said accounts to see what Routh believed and what drove him to try to assassinate President Trump.
This post has video that scrolls through Routh's X account so you can see how... passionate Routh was regarding the Ukraine war.
And this post has many of his Facebook rantings:
Routh was featured by Newsweek and The New York Times (because of course!). Here is a 2022 interview with Newsweek's Romanian branch:
In March 2023, Routh was named in a New York Times article titled "Stolen Valor: The U.S. Volunteers in Ukraine Who Lie, Waste and Bicker."
...many of these homespun groups of volunteers are fighting with themselves and undermining the war effort. Some have wasted money or stolen valor. Others have cloaked themselves in charity while also trying to profit off the war, records show.
The article discusses "volunteers" that are using the war in Ukraine for their own profit. Here is the excerpt about Routh:
With [International] Legion growth stalling, Ryan Routh, a former construction worker from Greensboro, N.C., is seeking recruits from among Afghan soldiers who fled the Taliban. Mr. Routh, who spent several months in Ukraine last year, said he planned to move them, in some cases illegally, from Pakistan and Iran to Ukraine. He said dozens had expressed interest.
'We can probably purchase some passports through Pakistan, since it's such a corrupt country,' he said in an interview from Washington.
It is not clear whether he has succeeded, but one former Afghan soldier said he had been contacted and was interested in fighting if it meant leaving Iran, where he was living illegally.
It seems Routh openly bragged about smuggling fighters from Pakistan and Afghanistan into Ukraine. In June, an X account named "King Jack Strong" - a self-professed "drag king" who refers to himself as the "Detroiter in Ukraine" and is nicknamed after a 2014 movie that details the exploits of a Polish spy who worked for the CIA in the Cold War - warned about Routh's activity with detailed screenshots.
Routh had numerous arrest charges, the most concerning of which is a "weapons of mass destruction" charge from 2002.
Routh had a standoff with police where he was armed with a machine gun. For some reason, he only received probation.
Routh's criminal record also includes hit and run, unlawfully carrying a concealed weapon, and possessing stolen goods.
With such a record, it is unknown how Routh obtained the SKS-variant rifle.
As to why Routh took a shot at Donald Trump, we have two posts from Routh that give a sense of his political frustrations.
First is a 2020 post where Routh, who said he supported Bernie, revealed that he had supported Trump in 2016 because he didn't like Hillary.
The second is a 2024 post where Routh said "DEMOCRACY is on the ballot," a common talking point among Democrats who have repeatedly claimed - over the course of multiple years - that Donald Trump's rhetoric mirrors that of Hitler.
Routh's daughter, Sara, is also apparently frustrated with the government. She was arrested last year for assaulting a government official.
At one point, Routh had a seemingly normal family in Greensboro, North Carolina, with a wife (Lora), son (Oran) and daughter (Sara).
He even won an award for helping local police with an investigation.
But at some point, things went off the rails. Following his police standoff with the machine gun, Routh and his wife Lora divorced in 2003. In 2018, he moved to Hawaii to start a construction business addressing homelessness.
A pickup truck outside his residence was photographed sporting a Biden-Harris campaign bumper sticker.
This is his son Oran now, who just told The Daily Mail his father hates Donald Trump like "every reasonable person does."
'This was the first I heard about it,' the 35-year-old exclusively told DailyMail.com. 'Was my father shot or injured?'
He said his father hates Trump as 'every reasonable person does.
‘I don't like Trump either,' the son added.
But he said his dad is not a violent person and couldn't believe his father would target the president.
Routh wrote a book with his new fiancée about the importance of Ukraine winning its war with Russia. Trump is mentioned several times, along with a specific mention about assassinating Trump.
All of this points to a disturbed man who drank much of the Democrat Kool-Aid about "saving democracy" that has been pushed on the American public in regards to the war in Ukraine and the 2024 election.
We'll update you when we have more details about the shooter and how he managed to get so close to a president who was very nearly assassinated only two months ago.
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