Federal prosecutors
Monday submission Ryan Routh, 58, Democratic donors The man suspected of plotting to assassinate Kamala Harris's opponent on September 15 had previously placed an international bounty on President Donald Trump's head and knew his location in advance.
According to documents filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, a few days after Routh's arrest on Sept. 15, a civilian witness called police to report that the suspect had left a box at his home several months earlier.
“It's up to you to finish the job.”
After learning of the assassination attempt, a witness (who is not named in the documents) apparently opened the box, which reportedly contained ammunition, metal pipes, building materials, four telephones, and several letters, including one addressed to “the world.”
Routh’s call for overseas killers is nearly identical to Harris’ campaign document, but it allegedly reads:
Dear people of the world, this was an assassination attempt on Donald Trump, and I'm sorry to have disappointed you. I did my best and put all the courage I had into it. Now it's up to you to finish this job, and I will give $150,000 to whoever gets it done. Everyone in the world, from the youngest to the oldest, knows that Trump is unfit to be anything, let alone the President of the United States. A President of the United States should, at a minimum, embody the moral fabric of America, be kind, compassionate, selfless, and always stand up for humanity.
The Justice Department released the first page of the letter but not the rest. But according to the filing, the letter states: [the former President] They ended their relationship with Iran like a child and now the Middle East is a mess.”
Donald Trump Jr. asked X reads, “What?! Why is Kamala's Department of Justice publicly announcing that Ryan Wesley Routh has a bounty on my father's head???”
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) Suggested“The Department of Justice is trying to put Trump in prison, and now by releasing this they're putting a bounty on Trump's head. Why else would they release this?”
Routh's letter to the overseas killer mirrors what he wrote in his 2023 self-published book.Ukraine's Unwinnable War”
In this book, Routh
Made about 20 small donations He made funds to Democrats through ActBlue in 2019 and 2020, and apologized to the Iranian people for President Trump's actions in Iran, which the Department of Homeland Security refused to investigate despite previous complaints, saying they would be “free to assassinate President Trump or me for that error of judgment.”
“No one in the United States seems to have the guts to take advantage of natural selection, or even unnatural selection,” Rouse added.
Prosecutors noted that the box Routh delivered with the witness also contained a handwritten list of dates and venues in August, September and October where Trump had appeared or was expected to appear.
At this time, it is unclear whether the dates and locations have all been made public. However, USSS Acting Chief Ronald Lowe said:
said “I was never supposed to be there in the first place,” Trump told reporters last week about his September 15 golf visit.
Inside the box was a notebook containing names and phone numbers linked to Ukraine, as well as “discussions on how to join the fighting on behalf of Ukraine.”
The Blaze News previously reported that Routh describes himself as an international recruiter for the Ukrainian military and runs a website called “Fight for Ukraine.” The Ukrainian Foreign Legion is I thought He was portrayed as a fraud and featured in multiple mainstream media outlets on international recruitment.
Not only did Routh try to help Afghan militants qualify to fight Russia in Ukraine, but he also appears to have been a cheerleader for a Ukrainian brigade with neo-Nazi ties since its inception. Appearance At the 1 minute 50 second mark of a video of a Ukrainian demonstration in support of the Azov Brigades in 2022.
Azov Brigade
said The company issued a statement last week saying it had “no association whatsoever” with Mr Routh.
Court documents also state that the FBI obtained cell tower records for two of the cell phones found in the vehicle Routh allegedly used to flee the scene of the assassination attempt.
Records show Routh traveled from Greensboro, North Carolina, to West Palm Beach on Aug. 14.
Between August 18 and September 15, Routh's cell phone allegedly repeatedly accessed cell towers near Trump's golf course and Mar-a-Lago estate.
In addition to revelations that Routh had expressed a desire to outsource the assassination of Trump to a foreign hit man and had advance knowledge of Trump's location, prosecutors noted ahead of Routh's detention hearing on Monday that the Ukraine war-obsessed defendant had been convicted in North Carolina on December 20, 2002, of possessing a weapon of mass destruction (a “binary explosive device”), as well as multiple counts of possessing stolen property in 2010.
The Blaze News previously reported that when Routh appeared in court on Dec. 18, 2002, his bail was increased to $100,000 and Superior Court Judge Peter M. McHugh issued an order for his release on Dec. 18. A few days later, Routh entered a plea deal in which the explosives charges were dropped and his bail was reduced to $10,000.
Routh ultimately received 60 months probation and was ordered to pay a $225 fine rather than the maximum 19 months in prison.
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