KAAAWA, HAWAII, and GREENSBORO, N.C.—Mysteries enshroud Ryan Routh, the 58-year-old man charged with attempting to kill former President Donald Trump at his Florida golf course.
But one thing about Routh is clear to humanitarian aid worker Chelsea Walsh, a travel nurse who met him overseas.
Walsh, who warned U.S. authorities that Routh was dangerous more than two years ago, now says this about the foiled assassination attempt: “The Ryan I know, he definitely would have pulled the trigger without a second thought; I think they got him just in time.”
A few hundred yards away from the spot where Trump was golfing on Sept. 15, a Secret Service agent spotted a rifle barrel jutting through a brush-covered fence. The agent fired, causing the hidden gunman to flee. Police later arrested the suspect, identified as Routh.
In an interview with The Epoch Times, Walsh said federal officials should have done more to stop Routh sooner, based on alarms she and others raised about the eccentric man who gave her the creeps in Kyiv, Ukraine.
She met him through international networks that were assisting Ukraine after Russia invaded in early 2022.
Many of Routh’s actions—ranging from his militant advocacy in Ukraine to the alleged assassination attempt—defy easy explanation. So does Routh’s path to infamy. It began in his native North Carolina, then wound its way to Hawaii, Ukraine, and eventually Florida. […]
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