Ryan Wesley Routh, 58, the suspect who allegedly attempted to assassinate former President Donald Trump on Sunday, was previously photographed in Kyiv, Ukraine, with celebrity chef Jose Andres, an appointee of the Biden-Harris administration.
Routh, who was reportedly on guard duty at the Trump International Golf Club West Palm Beach on Sunday with an AK-47 scope, appears to be obsessed with the war between Russia and Ukraine. Written A book about it.
In it, Routh shares a photo of himself alongside Biden's Andres. Appointed In 2022, he will become co-chair of the President's Council on Sports, Fitness and Nutrition.
According to an image of the book tweeted by left-leaning journalist Max Blumenthal, Routh wrote that “World Central Kitchen and Jose Luis deliver millions of meals to Ukraine every day,” misidentifying Andres.
Andres founded and runs the humanitarian food aid nonprofit World Central Kitchen, which as of November 2022 has already deployed thousands of volunteer cooks to Ukraine since the war began eight months ago. Forbes attention.
Jose Andres, founder and chief food officer of World Central Kitchen, speaks at the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) Annual Meeting in New York, Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2023. (Michael Nagle/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Andre also has ties to Trump: In 2015, he walked away from a restaurant contract at what would become the Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C., over Trump's comments about illegal immigration, NPR reported. attentionTrump sued for $10 million, and Andres' Think Food Group countersued for $8 million.
The two groups reached a settlement in 2017, according to NPR.
“I am pleased to be able to put this issue behind us and move forward as friends,” Donald Trump Jr. said in a statement. “Since opening in September 2016, Trump International Hotel Washington, D.C. has been an incredible success, and our entire team has high praise for Jose and TFG's work. This is certainly a win-win for both companies.”
“I am pleased that we have been able to resolve our differences and move forward together as friends,” Andres said in a statement. “I have great respect for the excellent work the Trump Organization has done in redeveloping the Old Post Office. … Going forward, we are excited about the prospect of working with the Trump Organization on a range of programs that will benefit our local community.”
