Ryan Routh, 58, has a long criminal past, including a prior conviction for possessing a weapon of mass destruction.
in as many months as the Republican nominee campaigns for the Oval Office, raising concerns about escalating political violence in the 2024 U.S. presidential election.
He appeared in court shackled and clad in a blue jumpsuit. His next hearing is scheduled for Sept. 23 and his arraignment is set for Sept. 30. Routh’s eldest son, Oran, told CNN that his dad is a “loving and caring father, and an honest hardworking man.”“I don’t know what’s happened in Florida, and I hope things have just been blown out of proportion, because from the little I’ve heard it doesn’t sound like the man I know to do anything crazy, much less violent,” Oran wrote.Routh appears to be a former Trump supporter who soured on the Republican politician after his four-year term, according to posts he made on aCanada, U.S.
“Bernie…. give them hell….. fight to the death,” Routh wrote in another post. Routh also mocked Biden as “sleepy Joe.”Routh’s social media posts also suggest he was an avid supporter of Ukraine, tweeting on April 21 that he wanted to buy a rocket from Elon Musk so he could “load it with a warhead for Putins Black sea mansion bunker to end him.”Routh told numerous publications in 2022 that he was in Kyiv, helping the Ukrainian military effort against Russia by recruiting soldiers.
“In the summer of 2022, I was walking with my wife down on the lovely main square of Kyiv in the Maidan, and we saw a guy who looked like a homeless person wearing a sandwich board that was recruiting for the Ukrainian military,” Bowser told Global News reporter Jackson Proskow from Petitcodiac, N.B. “That’s when I encountered Mr. Routh.
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