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US media names Ryan Routh as suspect in assassination plot on Trump

POSTED ON September 16, 2024 •   GLOBAL NEWS      BY Benedicta Bassey
US president candidate, Donald Trump l Credit: Getty Image

US media has named Ryan Wesley Routh, as the suspected would-be assassin of Donald Trump.

Recall that Routh in an interview with AFP was said to had traveled to support the war effort in Kyiv in 2022.

US media said it was Routh, 58, who was arrested after US Secret Service agents “opened fire on a gunman” carrying an AK-47 style rifle near the boundary of Trump’s Florida golf course where the former president was golfing on Sunday.

The suspect had bolted out of his hiding in a black car before he was tracked down by authorities.

CNN and CBS reported Routh was a self-employed affordable housing builder in Hawaii who had an arrest record spanning decades and regularly posted on politics and current events, including sometimes criticizing Trump, the Republican presidential candidate.

Routh has been an advocate in the Ukraine's fight against the invasion launched by Russia's president Vladimir Putin.

“I am willing to fly to Krakow and go to the border of Ukraine to volunteer and fight and die… Can I be the example We must win,” Routh said in an X post in March 2022, according to the New York Times, which also interviewed him.

AFP interviewed Routh in Kyiv in late April 2022, while he was taking part in a demonstration in support of Ukrainians trapped in the port city of Mariupol.

“Putin is a terrorist, and he needs to be ended, so we need everybody from around the world to stop what they are doing and come here now,” he told AFP at the time.

The United States has been a staunch support of Ukraine since Russia invaded in February 2022.

President Joe Biden will be replaced next January either by his Vice President Kamala Harris, who has indicated she will continue his policies of backing Ukraine, or by Trump, who would not say at a debate earlier this week whether he wanted Kyiv to win the war.

 

AFP

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