The one arrested for the alleged assassination attempt this Sunday on the former president and Republican candidate for the White House, Donald Trump was convicted more than 20 years ago for possession of a machine gun, according to local media. The man is also a person heavily involved in the war in Ukraine.
The former president suffered this Sunday his second assassination attempt this summer after an individual, arrested by the secret services and who did not shoot the president, approached the golf course where the Republican was playing, armed with a rifle AK-47 with scope.
The prisoner is a 58 year old man very active on social networks named Ryan Wesley Routh who lived in North Carolina and Hawaii, according to local media reports. In 2002, according to court records seen by various media outlets, He was convicted of possessing a weapon of mass destruction: a fully automatic machine gun.
Very involved with Ukraine
The records also show convictions for carrying a concealed weapon and possession of property. stolen and hit and run. According to BNC More than 100 criminal charges have been filed against Ryan Routh in North Carolina, the inmate’s son told cnn “It’s not like his father”“do something crazy and much less violent”.
“I don’t know what happened in Florida and I hope things were blown out of proportion,” he told the outlet. According to the cnnRouth He was heavily involved in the Ukrainian war against Russia. and visited the European country in 2022.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has confirmed that what happened at the Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Florida, is being investigated as an “attempted murder.”
Trump was the victim of an assassination attempt on July 13 at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. after a 20-year-old man shot him with a rifle, wounding his right ear. The Secret Services shot dead the attacker, who fired from a high place outside the premises, where an audience member died from a gunshot wound. The event led to numerous resignations due to security lapses at the event, including that of Kimberly Cheatle, then director of the US Secret Service.
