We knew this was coming, folks: everyone and their
mother, through numerous agencies, knew about Ryan Wesley Routh, the
wannabe Trump assassin who tried to pull a ‘Grassy Knoll’-like attack on
Trump over the weekend. Routh hid in a shrubbery along Trump
International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Florida, for 12 hours; he
had a rifle with a scope and a GoPro. He wasn’t hunting groundhogs.
The Secret Service got lucky, as they didn’t sweep the course before
Trump’s arrival, instead securing holes ahead of the former president as
he played. An agent scouting the perimeter of the course saw a barrel
and opened fire, causing Routh to flee. An eyewitness photo of him and
the car he fled the scene in led to his arrest by police later.
We
learned that the FBI knew about him in 2019, stemming from an illegal
firearm possession case. The Wall Street Journal has a lengthy piece
about how numerous people who encountered Routh were unnerved by him and
his antisocial tendencies, warning higher-ups about this individual. In
short, US authorities were warned multiple times about Routh. Still,
first, Larry Provost had an excellent piece about an ex-CIA targeting officer who gave Townhall information about her read on Mr. Routh:
In
information shared with Townhall.com, Sarah Adams, a former CIA
targeter and intelligence analyst, shared a Be On The Lookout warning
(BOLO) from June 2, 2023 warning of criminal activities by Ryan Routh.
The information in Ms. Adams’ BOLO was, according to her, even reported
to the U.S. government, specifically the Department of State.
The BOLO is partially reprinted below:
"📢 Important Announcement 📢 🚫 BOLO 🚫
"Beware
of American Ryan Routh. Reports indicate that he is leading a human
trafficking scheme. He is instructing Afghans to travel illegally to
Iran with the promise they will link up eventually with the Ukrainian
legion to fight. This is a fraud as NO official pathway exists for this
from the Ukrainian Government for our allies in Afghanistan. Also,
despite promised funding support it has not come to fruition and he has
abandoned Afghans illegally in Iran.
[…]
Ms. Adams was
author of the BOLO, which was sent out to a number of humanitarian
groups connected to helping Ukrainians after the Russian reinvasion of
February 24, 2022, as well as groups assisting Afghans who had
previously assisted the United States during the 20-year War in
Afghanistan.
Ms. Adams’ BOLO continued and shared Routh’s
website, social media that included a LinkedIn page as well as then
Twitter/now X account, and his regular phone number, that Routh
apparently used across various platforms to include Signal, WhatsApp and
Viber. (Townhall has specifically omitted this information)
The BOLO was received and Mr. Routh was known to be ostracized by several leaders in the Ukrainian humanitarian community.
And now, The Wall Street Journal with the follow, which also featured Adams, who rightly called Routh a “whack job”:
…it
was Routh’s time in Ukraine, where he traveled shortly after the
Russian invasion in 2022 hoping to join the fight, where his tumultuous
life full of failures and brushes with the law seemed to spiral further
downward—and to alarm those who came in contact with him.
Chelsea
Walsh, a nurse who had several encounters with Routh in Kyiv in 2022,
said his threats of violence worried her so much that she conveyed her
concerns to a Customs and Border Protection officer in an hourlong
interview at Washington’s Dulles airport in June 2022.
Walsh told
the officer during the interview, which took place after she returned
to the U.S., that Routh was among the most dangerous Americans she met
during her month-and-a-half-long stint in Ukraine.
She showed the
officer a notebook listing more than dozen names of Americans and
others whose actions had alarmed her, she recounted. Under the heading
“Overall Predatory Behavior (or antisocial traits)” were four names.
Routh’s was at the top.
Customs and Border Protection didn’t immediately respond to inquiries about the meeting.
Routh’s
behavior had been flagged to the FBI in the past, though not in
connection to Ukraine. A tipster told the FBI in 2019 that Routh had a
firearm despite being a felon, but when questioned further wouldn’t
verify providing the information, an FBI official said Monday. The
bureau passed the information onto authorities in Honolulu, where Routh
was living at the time, and closed the investigation.
His
activities related to Ukraine brought him to the attention of a large
group of people, many of whom quickly grew suspicious.
Routh was
well known among volunteer aid groups in Ukraine as a “fraudster” and
“kind of a whack job,” said Sarah Adams, a former CIA officer who helped
run a network that linked 50 aid groups to share information and
coordinate humanitarian and volunteer efforts. He claimed to be working
with the Ukrainian government to recruit foreign fighters but wasn’t,
she said.
The media also knew about Routh, with The New York Times and Semafor
interviewing him for pieces about his Ukraine activities, where he
reportedly met with government officials. What do they have to say if
there were any meetings at all?
Also, what the hell is this?
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