FBI investigates possible attempted murder against Republican candidate Donald Trump, who would be the second attack against the life of the former president of the United States within two months.
Initial information from the investigation indicates that the attacker Ryan Wesley Routhwas located near Donald Trump’s golf course for 12 hoursBut it was not until half past one in the afternoon local time that he was located by the Secret Service. At that time, the Republican candidate was playing golf.
This happened this Sunday, when the Republican candidate, who spoke out unharmedwas playing golf at his Florida club and the Secret Service opened fire on a gunman who allegedly I was planning to shoot him.
As usual, for security reasons, an agent always precedes Trump and secures the area. And during this exercise, it was between holes 5 and 6 that a man armed with a rifle was spotted at the tree line. At that time, the former president was between 300 and 500 meters away.
As soon as you see it, Secret Service Shot Ryan Wesley Routhwho fled, leaving behind all his belongings. Among them a AK-47 rifle with scopetwo backpacks and a Go Pro camera.
He was able to be arrested thanks to a key witness that he saw the black van in which he fled and took a photo of its license plate. A providential piece of information that allowed the police to arrest Routh within minutes.
This is the man who tried to assassinate Trump
Ryan Wesley Routh58 years old, is a very active person in networks, an ardent defender of Ukraine and clear opponent of Donald Trump even though she voted for him only eight years ago.
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.
Ryan, despite becoming an anti-Trumpist, assured in a message on Twitter in 2020 that he had voted for the Republican in the 2016 elections. However, he later changed his mind because he considered it “a big disappointment”. In fact, this year he opted for Democratic candidates and, during the Republican primaries, he asked Nikki Haley and Vivek Ramaswamy not to drop out of the presidential race.
The records also list convictions for carrying a concealed weapon, possession of stolen property and hit and run. According to NBC, more than 100 criminal charges have been filed against Ryan Routh in North Carolina.
According to CNN, Routh was very involved in Ukraine’s war against Russia and visited this European country in 2022. In fact, he volunteered to fight alongside Kiev and “fight and die.” This was explained in an interview with the “New York Times” where they spoke with American volunteers to fight in Ukraine.
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.”
Today, Routh faces up to 20 years in prison, a figure that could rise as the investigation progresses.
Biden orders Secret Service to ‘continue to provide’ security for Trump
US President Joe Biden has ordered his team to “continue to ensure” that the Secret Service has “all the resources, capabilities and safeguards necessary” to ensure “continuous” security of former President and presidential candidate Donald Trump after a second assassination attempt.
“I am relieved that the former president is unharmed.“, he said, after praising the work of the secret service and the rest of the law enforcement “for their vigilance and their efforts to ensure the security of the former president and his entourage,” according to a statement from the White House.
“As I have said many times, there is no place for political violence or any form of violence in our country,” he stressed. He also said that an investigation was underway into the incident as security forces gathered more details about what happened.
