Influential activist, idealist or fanatic? Ryan Routh seems to be one thing of all three, given the trajectory of his life main as much as his arrest Sunday in Florida on suspicion of making an attempt to assassinate Donald Trump.
A photograph launched by the Martin County Sheriff's Workplace reveals the 58-year-old American together with his blond hair uncombed and his palms cuffed behind his again. In one other photograph, the rumpled T-shirt he's carrying is pulled up on his chest, his sun shades slid down the top of his nostril. He’s skinny and wrinkles his eyes.
The previous builder appears to have been exuding a powerful must take motion, and in 2022, after the Russian invasion, he went to Ukraine. Agence France-Presse had interviewed him there, coincidentally, at a Ukrainian solidarity rally within the capital, Kiev. “Putin is a terrorist,” Ruth, who had painted the Ukrainian flag on his cheek, mentioned on the time. “Everyone on the planet ought to cease what they're doing and are available right here and assist Ukraine,” he mentioned.
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Ryan Wesley Ruth is being prosecuted in Florida just for unlawful gun possession – for now, because the investigation into his tried assassination of Trump continues. She allegedly tried to shoot him whereas hiding in bushes on a golf course.
This was not the primary time Ruth had run afoul of the authorities. He was arrested in 2002 after a visitors management. On the time, he had tried to flee and barricaded himself, armed, in a neighborhood retailer. Because the 90s, he had been concerned in varied legal instances, whereas he had not paid his taxes for years.
He was a daily consumer of social networking websites and in June 2020 tweeted a message through which he appeared to remorse voting for Trump in 2016 and revealed his “nice disappointment”. “I will likely be glad if you end up not there,” he wrote on the time.
On the similar time, in a 300-page self-published e-book entitled “The Misplaced Warfare”, he introduced his concepts on varied main matters: “The Deadly Flaw of Democracy”, “The Abandonment of the World and the International Citizen”, “The third world struggle and the top of humanity”. On his pages he talks about Taiwan, Afghanistan, North Korea.
He revealed to a New York Instances reporter who interviewed him in March 2023 that he had a wierd plan to assist Kiev: to recruit Afghans and ship these ex-soldiers, who had fled the Taliban, to combat in Ukraine. He even compiled an inventory of tons of of names.
In an undated selfie, probably from the identical period, he’s pictured with a three-day beard, an American flag draped round his neck and what seems to be a bulletproof vest. The American flag additionally seems sewn into his different garments: a tag on a T-shirt or a tracksuit, subsequent to a different tag with the Ukrainian flag.
After working in North Carolina, he settled in Hawaii, on the island of Oahu, the place he based a small firm, Camp Field Honolulu. He constructed picket homes and warehouses. The native newspaper Star-Advertiser reviews in a 2019 article that he had supplied one in every of these homes to the homeless.
Supply: APE-MPE-AFP
