The man charged after what appears to be an assassination attempt on Donald Trump at a West Palm Beach golf course is a former Trump supporter who has had several run-ins with the law over the past two decades, authorities said.
Ryan Routh, 58is believed to have a lengthy criminal and civil court history. In 2002, a man of the same name, who was 36 years old at the time, was tried for possessing a machine gun. Records also show he was charged with carrying a concealed weapon, possession of stolen property and hit-and-run. In those cases, which included felony convictions for violations such as resisting an officer and driving while license suspended, the defendant received probation and parole or probation.
Court records show that more than 100 criminal cases have been filed against Ryan Routh in North Carolina, most of them in Guilford County, which is the base of Greensboro. The exact outcome of each case was not immediately clear. In the early 2000s, there is no record of any time spent in state prison in connection with these cases.
Property records show that a man named Ryan Routh has lived in North Carolina for decades. Not long ago, one Ryan Routh lived in the small coastal community of Kaaawa on the east coast of Oahu in Hawaii. Authorities there did not immediately respond to an inquiry about possible contacts with Routh.
Rut expressed his support for Ukraine after the invasion of Russia in 2022 and told the publication. Semaphore He said he was director of a group he called the International Volunteer Center as part of efforts to support Ukraine in the Russia-Ukraine war last year.
Routh said he voted for Trump in 2016 and regretted it after Trump made a “huge mistake” in 2018 and pulled the US out of the Iran nuclear deal, according to his book Ukraine’s Unwinnable War: Democracy’s Deadly Flaw, World . Abandonment and the Global Citizen-Taiwan, Afghanistan, North Korea, and the End of Humanity” he self-published in 2023.