His name is Ryan Routh, he is 58 years old and from Hawaii. He is the man arrested at the Trump International Golf Course in West Palm Beach, Florida, for attempting to kill Donald Trump. According to the first reconstruction, Routh was hiding in the bushes of the golf course. The US presidential candidate was on hole 5, about 350 meters from Routh, when a Secret Service agent noticed the barrel of a rifle sticking out of the grass and fired. The tycoon was taken away by the men of the escort. Routh got into his Nissan to try to escape. But he was blocked shortly after by the patrols of the county sheriff along Interstate 95, the highway that crosses Florida from north to south.
Who is Ryan Routh?
At the time of his arrest, the man did not resist and was unarmed. An Ak-47 rifle with binoculars and two backpacks full of ammunition were recovered from the hedges, as well as a mini Go Pro camera. His LinkedIn account reveals that he attended North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University and moved to Hawaii in 2018. has been arrested nine times for minor offenses. The list of arrests includes drug possession, driving without a license, expired inspection, and operating a vehicle without insurance. Additionally, the Greensboro News & Record reported that in 2002, Routh was arrested after barricading himself in his company office.
In the hours after the attack, information began to circulate from an X account that the man had Afghan soldiers ready to join the Haitian National Police. But he also collected aid for Ukraine: he also wrote that he was ready to fight and give his life for kyiv. He also tried to enlist volunteers for the front of the war against Russia. In April 2022, he claimed to be in kyiv.
Ukraine, Haiti and Taiwan
On August 10, 2023, Routh instead said he wanted to send thousands of NATO-trained Afghan troops to Taiwan and form a legion of volunteer fighters “to protect the island's shores.” CNN, Fox News, and the New York Times identified the suspect as Ryan Wesley Routh. Public access to Routh's Facebook and X profiles was removed hours after the shooting. Palm Beach County Sheriff Ric Bradshaw said Secret Service agents saw the barrel of a rifle sticking out of the bushes about 350 to 450 yards from Trump during an inspection. They shot him at least four times. The shooter dropped his rifle and backpacks and fled. A witness was able to take photos of Routh's car and license plate.
The Bush Gun Barrel on the Golf Course
At that point, police issued an alert with information about the vehicle. Martin County sheriffs stopped the suspect on I-95, 40 miles from the golf course. Fox News host Sean Hannity said he spoke with both Trump and Steve Witkoff, a New York real estate investor and longtime Trump friend who was on the golf course with him Sunday.
“They were on the fifth hole. And the way Steve described it, the way the president described it, they both had the exact same story, which was they heard pop pop, pop pop,” Hannity said. Secret service He threw himself on the president to protect him.
Messages to Biden, Putin and Musk
Second Reuters On X in 2020, Routh endorsed Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders and called Biden a “sleeping Joe.” Earlier this year, he instead wrote posts in support of Biden and against Trump. The same day he informed the then-candidate president of After the assassination attempt on the former president in Butler, Pennsylvania, Routh invited Biden to visit the victims of the Thomas Crooks shooting and attend the funeral of the slain firefighter. “Trump certainly won’t do it. Show the world what real leaders do,” he wrote on
The son and the daughter
Responding to a tweet from Elon Musk, he then clarified about Ukraine: “I would like to buy one of his missiles and load it with a warhead so that Putin’s mansion in the Black Sea can finish him off. If you can tell me the price please, it can also be old and used.” Originally from North Carolina, Routh moved to Hawaii in 2018, where he opened a construction company building facilities for the homeless. “He’s an honest, hardworking man. I don’t know what happened in Florida: from what I’ve heard, he doesn’t look like the person I know,” his son Oran said. The man also has a daughter: the car he was arrested in had a license plate to her.
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