According to Fox News and the New York Post, which is owned by the same owner, citing police sources, Routh is a 58-year-old originally from North Carolina and most recently living in Hawaii.
A man with the same name and place of origin was quoted in a New York Times article last year.. about foreigners fighting in Ukraine. Routh had a plan to get into the fight in Ukraine former Afghan soldiers who fled the country from the Taliban.
This is confirmed by his account on the X portal, where in 2022 he wrote that is in Ukraine and organizes other volunteers from abroad. His posts suggest that he also wanted to send Afghan soldiers to Taiwan i Haiti.
USA. Shots fired outside Donald Trump's club. The attacker was active online
In his LinkedIn account he wrote that in Hawaii he was involved in building homes for the poor. He also announced that he would “accept an invitation to join any monumental and worthy cause that will lead to real changes in our world“.
Right after the first failed assassination attempt on Trump, Routh Addresses Kamala Harris and President Biden on Social Mediato visit the injured and the families of the attack victims.
“Trump will never do anything for them…Show the world what empathy and humanity are,” he wrote.
As reported by a local newspaper in Greensboro, North Carolina, Routh was stopped by police in 2010 for driving without a valid license, but He escaped from the police and barricaded himself in a shop with an automatic rifle.
USA. Attempted assassination attempt on Donald Trump. Attacker hid with a gun in the bushes
Routh was arrested Sunday in Florida after Secret Service agents spotted him hiding in the bushes under the fence of the golf club Donald Trump with an AK-47 carbine with optical sight.
According to the police, the man was about 300-500 meters from Trumpand after the Secret Service fired shots He fled from the spot, abandoning the weapon in the bushes.
After the man was arrested, Trump's campaign sent a second e-mail to supporters asking for donations to his campaign.
“I am safe and sound and nothing happened to anyone. Thank God! But there are people in this world who will do whatever it takes to stop us,” the former president wrote.
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