Monday, September 16, 2024

Suspect in Second Attempt to Assassinate Trump Vowed to Fight and Die for Ukraine

 The suspect in the second assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump on Sept. 15 is a Democratic donor, who vowed to fight and die for Ukraine, The New American website reports today (Sept. 16, 2024). 


Ryan Wesley Routh, 58, has also been arrested some 100 times, and was involved in a stand--off with cops in Greensboro, North Carolina in 2002.


Significantly, in a book he co--authored , he advocated assassinating Trump. 


In 2002 Routh was arrested in North Carolina for carrying  a concealed weapon and possession of a weapon of mass destruction, referring to a fully automatic machine gun.


Routh wrote in 2022, "I am willing to fly to Krakow (Poland) and go to the border of Ukraine to volunteer and fight and die," according to The New York Times. His book, "Ukraine's Unwinnable War ." which he wrote with his fiancee, Kathleen Shaffer, is about that effort. 


He traveled to Kyiv in April to support the people of Ukraine and stayed at a hostel with a military unit for about 90 days. 

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