This screengrab taken from AFPTV on September 16, 2024 exhibits Ryan Wesley Routh talking throughout an interview at a rally to induce international leaders and worldwide organizations to assist present humanitarian corridors for the evacuation of civilians and Ukrainian servicemen from Mariupol in central Kyiv on April 27, 2022, amid Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Agence France-Presse
WASHINGTON — US media named Ryan Wesley Routh, whom AFP interviewed in Kyiv in 2022 the place he had travelled to assist the conflict effort, because the suspected would-be murderer of Donald Trump.
US media stated it was Routh, 58, who was arrested after US Secret Service brokers “opened fireplace on a gunman” carrying an AK-47 model rifle close to the boundary of Trump’s Florida golf course the place the previous president was {golfing} on Sunday.
The suspect had bolted out of the shrubbery he had been hiding in and escaped in a black automobile earlier than he was tracked down by authorities.
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CNN and CBS reported Routh was a self-employed reasonably priced housing builder in Hawaii who had an arrest report spanning a long time and commonly posted on politics and present occasions, together with typically criticizing Trump, the Republican presidential candidate.
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One trigger Routh expressed assist for was Ukraine’s battle in opposition to Russia’s invasion.
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“I AM WILLING TO FLY TO KRAKOW AND GO TO THE BORDER OF UKRAINE TO VOLUNTEER AND FIGHT AND DIE… Can I be the instance We should win,” Routh stated in an X publish in March 2022, in accordance with the New York Occasions, which additionally interviewed him.
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AFP interviewed Routh in Kyiv in late April 2022, whereas he was collaborating in an indication in assist of Ukrainians trapped within the port metropolis of Mariupol.
“Putin is a terrorist, and he must be ended, so we want all people from world wide to cease what they’re doing and are available right here now,” he instructed AFP on the time.
America has been a staunch assist of Ukraine since Russia invaded in February 2022.
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President Joe Biden will probably be changed subsequent January both by his Vice President Kamala Harris, who has indicated she’s going to proceed his insurance policies of backing Ukraine, or by Trump, who wouldn’t say at a debate earlier this week whether or not he needed Kyiv to win the conflict.
