Former President Donald Trump suffered and survived the second attempted assassination earlier this week, forcing the former president to be rushed from the scene and secret service to step in.
U.S. officials apparently did little with the warnings from Americans who had contact with Ryan Wesley Routh, the suspect in an alleged botched assassination attempt on Trump. Their worry was prompted by Routh's odd behavior in Ukraine, as Breitbart News reported.
On Sunday, as former president Donald Trump was playing golf at Trump National Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Florida, Routh, 58, was apprehended for being a trespasser armed with a weapon. On Monday, Routh faced federal charges of being a felon in possession of a handgun.
A self-published book in which Routh urged the terrorist-supporting government of Iran to murder Donald Trump was one of many "red flags" that adorned Routh's record.
Among his long list of criminal charges, he was found in possession of a "weapon of mass destruction" in the year 2002.
This was a firearm that had been unlawfully modified to fire in a fully automatic manner.
Routh was a fervent and unwavering supporter of the Ukrainian people. Almost immediately after the beginning of the Russian invasion in February 2022, he arrived there, looking to help.
His first intention was to offer himself as a foreign recruit for the Ukrainian military, but after the Ukrainian government rejected his offer of service, he went on to recruit other individuals.
Chelsea Walsh, a nurse, informed the Wall Street Journal on Monday that she encountered Routh on multiple occasions in Kyiv and determined that he was “among the most dangerous Americans she met during her month-and-a-half-long stint in Ukraine.”
Walsh was so concerned by Routh's actions that she claims she informed Customs and Border Protection (CBP) about him upon her return to the United States. She provided the Central Prosecutor's Bureau (CPB) with a notebook in which she detailed the behavior of more than a dozen foreign nationals in Ukraine.
Routh was the most prominent individual on the list, as she was identified as engaging in "predatory behavior."
Walsh stated that she initially considered Routh to be "eccentric, but not dangerous." However, she later revised her assessment after maintaining a consistent relationship with him, particularly in light of his repeated references to assassinating world leaders.
According to Sarah Adams, a former CIA officer and American with experience in Ukraine, Routh earned a reputation among aid organizations as a "fraudster" and "whack job."
Routh frequently asserted that he was recruiting foreign combatants as an agent of the Ukrainian government, among other disturbing behaviors, when in reality, this was not the case.
