The suspected gunman, arrested Sunday in Florida after his assassination attempt on former Republican President Donald Trump was foiled by the U.S. Secret Service, has been identified as 58-year-old Ryan Wesley Routh.
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Routh, who was apprehended on I-95 after fleeing his sniper post alongside a chain link fence surrounding the Palm Beach golf course, was described by law enforcement as living in Hawaii.
Online records suggest Routh most recently maintained a residence on Kamehameha Highway in Kaaawa, HI.
Although Routh had previously tweeted about having supported former President Trump in 2016, Routh’s social media is filled with anti-Trump rants.
According to Federal Election Commission (FEC) records, Routh began donating exclusively to Democrats via ActBlue in Sept. of 2019.
Routh’s LinkedIn account — festooned with Ukrainian flags — indicates that he is self-employed as the owner of Camp Box Honolulu, a company that sells so-called “tiny homes” to residents of the island.
An online background check service revealed that Routh had an extensive previous criminal record in North Carolina.
Although those records were not immediately available, the name and age from the records match a Ryan Routh who was reported by North Carolina media to have engaged in an armed standoff with police in 2002.
Facebook parent company Meta quickly scrubbed Routh’s profile from the social media site; however, screenshots taken before the profile was hidden circulated on X.com.
Screenshots available of Routh’s social media accounts indicate that he was a supporter of Trump in 2016 who had become alienated from the Republicans prior to the 2020 election.
More recently, Routh appears to have become obsessed with the ongoing Russia-Ukraine War. One 2022 post even indicates that Routh traveled to Kyiv as part of an attempt to recruit foreign nationals to help defend Ukraine.
Routh’s extensive foreign travel, including his documented presence in Ukraine within the last two years, immediately raised questions as to whether he’d had any prior interactions with intelligence agencies — foreign or domestic.
Routh’s attempt to assassinate Trump comes just 64 days after 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks nearly killed the Republican presidential nominee at a rally in Butler County, Pennsylvania.
Crooks fired several shots from the top of a nearby building, striking the former president in the ear, wounding a rally participant, and killing another.
Unlike Routh, Crooks left behind almost no social media history, and the investigation into his attempt on Trump’s life has produced little information, stoking considerable controversy and fostering conspiracy theories.
>Unlike Routh, Crooks left behind almost no social media history, and the investigation into his attempt on Trump’s life has produced little information
A Hispanic guy in Thomas Crooks’ school said Crooks was angry at him for supporting Trump, saying that as a Latino he shouldn’t be supporting Trump. And he donated to the Democrats through the extremist ActBlue. The Democrats try to obfuscate this by saying that he “registered as a Republican”, which rings hollow when he tried to KILL the Republican candidate, so obviously he signed up as part of the planning, to get information and access in the future.
Crooks was said to be a conservative like his father. Other students said he had been a conservative. He had googled schedules and images of both Trump, Biden, Pelosi and others and had simply gone to the first one that was in his vicinity. He hated all of the politicians.
Billboard Chris. Thanks for saving Routh’s social media page. It’s already been scrubbed. This guy is extremely unbalanced so his evolution to the Democratic party is complete.
Dude seemed unhinged. Overall this is a bit of a non story. There are assassin attempts on most notable people fairly often in the US. Like when a man tried to kill Biden by smashing a u-haul passed the checkpoints in the White House.
Plenty of unhinged people in the US. That’s why we have secret service and such. So long as they do their job there isn’t anything to talk about
Thanks for posting his background and campaign donations.
Political violence is almost exclusively from the left. No surprise here, another leftwing Ukrainian loving nutjob.
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If they couldn’t kill him then Lock this lunatic in a dark cell and forget about him . He’s a genuine POS . We don’t need his kind walking around . No rehabilitation is possible . He’s a bad one . Be done with him . Now we are going to have to listen to his insane rantings forever .
I have never seen so many down votes on this site. Do the leftists have a bot that is not being identified by the Maine Wire?
Yes Gardiner .
I noticed the exact same thing .
The one who signs in here as “ Esau “ is likely some sort of a Soros plant . Paid by the word to spew his BS in sites like this .
Another progressive democrat trouble maker looking for an audience of hate .
Sounds like some Muslim malcontent here to stir things up .
I wonder if we’ll ever see the go-pro footage?
Democrat attempts to spin this by claiming he was a disillusioned Trump supporter is absolute BS. He probably intentionally said this in order to maximize damage to Trump and Trump supporters…after all, no Trump hating assassin wants Trump to garner more support from this. The reality is he repeated donated to Democrats, so he CLEARLY was a Democrat.
There is something about this story that is stirring some pot. 122k views? Unusual amounts of down votes? You must be doing something right, Maine Wire. Keep it up.
Just another BlackRock asset.
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