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(LifeSiteNews) — Ryan Wesley Routh, who has been accused of attempting to assassinate President Donald Trump after he pointed a gun at him at Trump’s country club golf course, wrote a letter months before the incident in which he apologized for a “failed” assassination attempt on Trump and offered $150,000 to “whomever can complete the job.”
“Dear World, This was an assassination attempt on Donald Trump but I am so sorry I failed you. I tried my best and gave it all the gumption I could muster. It is up to you now to finish the job; and I will offer $150,000 to whomever can complete the job,” Routh wrote in a letter he sent to an unnamed witness in the 58-year-old’s prosecution.
On September 18, days after the September 15 incident targeting Trump, law enforcement was contacted by the witness, who said Routh had “dropped off a box at his residence several months prior.” After the witness learned about the “attempt” on Trump, he opened the box to discover “ammunition, a metal pipe, miscellaneous building materials, tools, four phones, and various letters.”
In the letter apologizing for a failed attempt on Trump’s life, Routh went on to write, “Everyone across the globe from the youngest to the oldest know that Trump is unfit to be anything, much less as US president. US presidents must at bare minimum embody the moral fabric that is America and be kind, caring and selfless and always stand for humanity.”
The letter was used by Routh’s prosecution to argue that he continue to remain in custody during court proceedings.
The former construction worker was reported to have pushed his AK-47 rifle through a fence at Trump’s country club, pointing it at the president and then fleeing when Secret Service opened fire at him.
Routh has an extensive criminal history that includes a conviction in 2002 for possessing a “weapon of mass destruction” (a “fully automatic machine gun,” according to the Greensboro News & Record); as well as misdemeanors and felonies, including a hit-and-run offense and carrying a concealed weapon and possessing stolen goods, according to NPR.
In 2022, he traveled to Ukraine to fight against Russia and tried to recruit Americans and ex-Afghanistan soldiers to do the same. The New York Times interviewed Routh for a story about ill-trained Americans who wanted to join the fight against Russia for an article titled “Stolen Valor: The U.S. Volunteers in Ukraine Who Lie, Waste and Bicker.”
“Ryan Routh, a former construction worker from Greensboro, N.C., is seeking recruits from among Afghan soldiers who fled the Taliban,” the Times reported in 2023. “Mr. Routh, who spent several months in Ukraine last year, said he planned to move them, in some cases illegally, from Pakistan and Iran to Ukraine. He said dozens had expressed interest.”
Colonel Douglas Macgregor believes this recruitment effort demonstrates a “CIA connection.”
“One has to conclude there are few accidents of this kind,” Macgregor observed, noting the second attempt on Trump’s life in ten weeks.
“There are lots of unanswered questions about the first attempt,” Macgregor continued, adding that the perception of the Ukraine war had been supplied to the second shooter – Ryan Routh – by a media operation effectively run “by the CIA.”
Routh’s connections to the Deep State are not merely conjectural. Mike Benz, executive director of Foundation for Freedom Online and an expert on government clandestine control tactics, has argued that “Ryan Routh was serving as a State Department back-channel for the CIA ‘visas for terrorists’ operation – to assist the Pentagon – in helping former ISIS fighters travel to Ukraine to fight in its war.”
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