Quick question: If you wanted to travel to Afghanistan, Romania, and Ukraine to recruit mercenaries to fight against the Russian army, would you be able to? Probably not. You’d have to be some sort of obvious CIA spook to pull something like that off.
People who have doubted our assertions that Thomas Matthew Crooks had federal help in his attempt to murder President Trump in July are going to have a hard time making excuses for Ryan Wesley Routh, who just tried to assassinate the president on Sunday.
Routh was quickly taken alive by sheriff’s deputies in Palm Beach after he tried to kill President Trump. He was also quickly identified and had a large, obnoxious social media presence. Within a few hours, we all knew who this guy was.
Routh’s social media pages (before they were scrubbed from the internet) were chock-full of pro-Ukraine propaganda and Trump-hating vitriol.
Someone unearthed a video that Routh did in Romania, where he was working to recruit mercenaries to fight Russia. He also did an interview at a train station on the border between Poland and Ukraine:
My friend Jamie Rejent interviewed Ryan Wesley Routh (the man that attempted to assassinate Trump) at a train station on the border of Poland & Ukraine back in April of 2022. Ryan was on his way into Ukraine to “Occupy” Kyiv with his flags and his tent.
🎥 Insta: Jamie.Rejent pic.twitter.com/O5Sp3aBTDm
— Geoff Pilkington (@geoffpilkington) September 16, 2024
Routh even traveled to Afghanistan, where he tried to recruit disgruntled Taliban members to travel to Ukraine to fight Russia.
In 2023, Routh wrote a memoir in which he advocated for murdering Donald Trump because he wants to end the war in Ukraine. Someone drove by Routh’s house and snapped a photo of his truck in the driveway on Monday. It has a “Biden-Harris” bumper sticker on it.
The media started declaring on Monday that Routh has a “quixotic past”—as if he’s just some loveable pro-Ukraine goofball who got carried away by his emotions. Here’s how carried away Routh got on Sunday.
President Trump decided to make an unscheduled golf outing that day. It wasn’t on his travel schedule. The public and the media had no idea that the leading presidential candidate was heading to Trump International Golf Club West Palm Beach. The only people who knew he was going to be there were his security detail.
The golf course is surrounded by 30-foot-tall hedges. You cannot see the golf course from the streets that surround it. Despite having no possible way to know where President Trump was on the big golf course, Routh pulled his SUV over by the side of the road and ran into the bushes—just in front of the area between the fifth and sixth holes where the leading presidential candidate would be in a few minutes.
Routh had two backpacks with ceramic plates in them. He hung the backpacks from the chain link fence about 12 inches apart. The point of this was to stop any incoming bullets from hitting him if the Secret Service managed to shoot back. Routh also hooked a GoPro camera to the fence so he could record himself murdering President Trump.
One Secret Service agent who was traveling ahead of President Trump spotted the barrel of Routh’s rifle poking through the fence. The agent shot at Routh several times and missed. Routh ditched his rifle and ran for it in his SUV. A civilian took a photo of his license plate and that’s how the sheriff’s deputies caught him and captured him alive.
How did Ryan Routh—an obvious spook with ties to the intelligence agencies—know the exact location to set up a sniping nest to shoot President Trump on Sunday? The public and the press didn’t know where Trump was. You couldn’t see the golf course from the road. No one but Trump’s security detail knew he was there.
This was a planned and premeditated assassination attempt. Routh had help from inside the intelligence agencies and possibly from inside President Trump’s security detail. There is no possible way that he made a lucky guess to show up in that exact location at the exact right time to try to shoot the president. He had help.
As for President Trump, there’s no point in him doing any more rallies or going out on the golf course until after he’s inaugurated. He can do livestreamed fireside chats for the rest of his campaign and millions of us will tune in to watch. When it’s this obvious that the federal government is trying to murder him, it’s time to start taking extra precautions.
Oh, and… now would be a good time for someone to make sure the security cameras are working in whatever jail Ryan Routh is being held in.
