MaineWire: What We Know About Ryan Wesley Routh, 2nd Would-Be Trump Assassin - The Maine Wire
Screenshots available of Routh’s social media accounts indicate that he was a supporter of Trump in 2016 who had become alienated from the Republicans prior to the 2020 election….
An online background check service revealed that Routh had an extensive previous criminal record in North Carolina.
Although those records were not immediately available, the name and age from the records match a Ryan Routh who was reported by North Carolina media to have engaged in an armed standoff with police in 2002….
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WGHP: Greensboro neighbor describes Ryan Wesley Routh, suspect in assassination attempt against Trump (myfox8.com)
Routh previously lived in the Greensboro area before moving to Hawaii sometime this year. Neighbors say he and his family moved to Hawaii in May.
Voter records indicate that he was an unaffiliated voter but did vote in the Democratic primary in Guilford County.
Social media posts allegedly belonging to Routh indicate he was a believer in COVID-19 conspiracy theories, and he had posted that he had voted for Trump in 2016 but was disappointed with him after the fact, expressing support for Tulsi Gabbard in various posts….
The North Carolina Department of Adult Corrections has records for Routh going back to 2002. That year, he barricaded himself inside a business with a gun in Greensboro, per the News & Record.
In 2003, he was sentenced for driving without a license, carrying a concealed weapon and hit and run. In 2010 he was convicted of possessing stolen goods.
He was given probation for all of these charges, according to the DAC website….
2002 Greensboro News Record: MAN WITH GUN BARRICADES SELF INSIDE BUSINESS (greensboro.com)
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Star-Adv: Man arrested in suspected Trump assassination attempt lived in Hawaii, North Carolina | Honolulu Star-Advertiser (staradvertiser.com)
Investigators today were at the Kaaawa home of the man who was arrested this afternoon in connection to today’s alleged attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump in Florida.
Ryan Wesley Routh, 58, is in custody after the Secret Service spotted a rifle scope pointed toward the course where the former president was golfing…
Public records show that Routh, who is registered to vote in North Carolina, also has lived in Kaaawa and worked in Hawaii since 2018. Tribune reported that Routh voted this spring in the North Carolina Democratic primary.
Property records show that his Hawaii home in Kaaawa is owned by Kathleen Shaffer, who according to public records shares the address with Routh and has shared other addresses with him in the past.
Neighbors said a woman had been at the home earlier, but left before investigators and media arrived….
Law enforcement sources told the Star-Advertiser that Routh has an active Hawaii driver’s license with the same Kamehameha Highway address. They also said he has no arrest or criminal record nor a registered firearm in Hawaii….
media have reported that he had an extensive criminal history in North Carolina that includes convictions between 2002 and 2010 of possession of weapons of mass destruction, carrying a concealed gun, hit and run, possession of stolen goods and resisting law enforcement, among other charges.
Honolulu police have records of four interactions with Routh, law enforcement sources told the Star-Advertiser. Two interactions came in 2019 and two in 2021.
In 2019 Routh and two others were allegedly squatting on property in Kaaawa when the property owner called to have them removed….
The Honolulu Star-Advertiser quoted him in 2019 when he pledged to build tiny homes for homeless people to live in Kalaeloa, as part of the kauhale concept promoted by then-Lt. Gov. Josh Green and Nani Medeiros, who was then executive director of the nonprofit building group HomeAid Hawaii.
Routh reached out to HomeAid to support the effort, the 2019 story said. “As a community, if we can all come together and put our resources together, it would be extremely beneficial,” he said.
Later, after being elected governor, Green appointed Medeiros as his administration’s chief housing officer and she left the nonprofit. Her successor, current HomeAid Hawaii Executive Director Kimo Carvalho, said he conducted an assessment of the nonprofit’s partners shortly after coming onboard in 2023 and cut ties with Routh.
“He was involved in (the Kalaeloa) project with my predecessor and since then I have not connected with him at all. We have been exclusive with who we have partnered with. We are not asking for broad help anymore we are being a little bit more exclusive with who we ask,” he said Sunday. “Primarily for reasons like this. Because we are doing work with government, we have to be a lot more diligent in vetting contractors, donors and supporters.”
Carvalho said he was not aware of any of Routh’s affiliations or political views, but described him as “radical” from a business standpoint….
Routh also reported lost property to police, and was involved in a “miscellaneous public case,” a classification police use to cover interactions with citizens that don’t fit into a particular statute.
In 2021, Routh reported being the victim in an alleged third-degree assault case. Routh was working as a handyman and argued with a resident living on the property that he was working on, sources said. Routh alleged that he was punched in the nose but no arrests were made….
Routh wrote several published letters to the editor in the Star-Advertiser between 2018 and April 2024. The topics he chose were typically local issues, such as graffiti, Haiku Stairs, potholes.
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Star-Adv 2019: ‘Kauhale’ homeless concept generating offers of donations | Honolulu Star-Advertiser (staradvertiser.com)
Ryan Routh, the owner of Camp Box Honolulu, which builds storage units and tiny houses, said his donation of a tiny house allows him to use his expertise to address a larger problem.
“As a community, if we can all come together and put our resources together, it would be extremely beneficial,” Routh told the Star-Advertiser on Sunday. “All of us are tired of seeing the homeless people all over the island with nowhere to go.”
He’s particularly inspired to provide housing for “the ones that have pets and animals. The vast majority of these people are asking for a plot of land that they can call their own.”
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NYPost: Alleged would-be Trump assassin Ryan Routh, 58, of Hawaii echoed Harris, Biden’s anti-Trump rhetoric as he backed Dem candidates
The suspect — identified as Ryan Routh, 58, of Hawaii — was able to get between 300 to 500 yards of Trump at a chain link fence on the edge of the course where he had an AK-47 and a GoPro camera set up to apparently film the planned shooting.
Routh has a history of supporting progressive causes online and has made 19 donations to Democratic candidates since 2019.
A Secret Service agent spotted and opened fire on Routh as he put his gun through the fence. The suspect fled the scene and was arrested on I-95 a short time later.
The alleged gunman who authorities said targeted former President Trump while he golfed in Florida Sunday afternoon previously declared on social media that “Democracy is on the ballot” this year, and “we cannot lose” — echoing the anti-Trump rhetoric used by Vice President Kamala Harris and President Biden.
Law enforcement sources identified the suspect as Ryan Wesley Routh, 58.
Routh, who has a lengthy criminal record from North Carolina, frequently posted about politics and exclusively donated to Democratic candidates and causes dating back to 2019.
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S: Alleged Trump plotter Ryan Routh complained of obstacles to getting foreign soldiers to Ukraine | Semafor
When Ryan Routh spoke to Semafor on March 7, 2023, he was frustrated with the Ukrainian government for which he’d traveled around the world to support.
The Ukrainians, he complained, were being too rigid about admitting foreign soldiers of dubious qualifications, including a group of Afghan commandos who were facing skepticism and bureaucratic roadblocks in Kyiv.
“Ukraine is very often hard to work with. Many foreign soldiers leave after a week in Ukraine or must move from unit to unit to find a place they are respected and appreciated,” he told Semafor. He’d been “yelled at” every time he suggested they tap Afghan commandos. “They’re afraid that anybody and everybody is a Russian spy,” he said with frustration….
When Semafor talked to him, Routh was one of a wave of American volunteers in Ukraine, the self-appointed director of a group he’d started called the International Volunteer Center. He was, even by the standards of that frantic moment, a bit over the top, a Ukrainian involved in the effort told us at the time. But he was also, they said, authentically involved in the efforts to bring in foreign troops, and we quoted him in a story about the Afghan fighters.
On X, he frantically tweeted at President Volodymyr Zelenskyy with his ideas — for instance, “to use Independence Park to create a tent city of all the foreigners here in support to get thousands more foreign civilians to come and support Ukraine.” Zelenskyy did not appear to respond….
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BH: Voter records show he registered as an unaffiliated voter in North Carolina in 2012, most recently voting in person during the state’s Democratic primary in March.
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