Did Alleged Assassin “MEET WITH LAWMAKERS” in 2023!?

This story just keeps getting more and more bizarre…

It has just come to light that Ryan Routh, the alleged golf course assassin, was interviewed in 2023 in Washington DC.  And you won’t believe why he was there, and what he talked to the reporter about!

Before he hid in the bushes outside of Donald Trump’s West Palm Beach golf course with an “AK-style” rifle, Tanya Lukyanova interviewed Ryan Routh for a piece on American-trained Afghan commandos who wanted to fight for Ukraine.@OllyWiseman for The FP: https://t.co/UUFTwYBNUW

— The Free Press (@TheFP) September 16, 2024

The reporter who interviewed him is reporting that Routh was in Washington DC at the time in order to meet with lawmakers!  (You can not make this stuff up, folks.)

This is new video that just dropped of Tanya Kukyanova of The Free Press talking to Fox News about the interview she conducted in March of last year:

The FP’s Tanya Lukyanova discusses her interview with Donald Trump’s would-be assassin, Ryan Routh, last year. “He seemed off.” https://t.co/UUFTwYBNUW pic.twitter.com/fy8O1kn2bB

— The Free Press (@TheFP) September 16, 2024

Here’s a Fox News report with some of what Tanya Lukyanova is bringing to light about the man being accused of ANOTHER attempt on President Trump’s life:

“He seemed off,” Lukyanova told co-anchors Bill Hemmer and Dana Perino on Monday. “If you look at the video interview, you can see like it looks like it’s a scene out of a Coen Brothers movie… he seems distraught, but then at the same time, he wasn’t even the most colorful of the big personalities that I spoke to as part of the story.”

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Lukyanova said she got a call from her editor at Semafor, bringing to her attention the identity of the suspect and the fact that she interviewed him for the Ukraine story last year.

“I instantly remembered him. He was a very colorful personality when I interviewed him,” Lukyanova said. “I was working on a story about the U.S.-trained, elite Afghan commandos who wanted to join the Ukraine war effort, and… he created something called the International Volunteer Legion, which was this liaison between international fighters who want to join Ukraine effort and Ukrainian Defense Ministry and other various government organizations.”

“He was doing a lot of work for them,” she continued. “Actually, he traveled to Ukraine and lived there for five months… A source from inside [the] Ukrainian government gave me his contact info as one of the most active… volunteers working in this area of bringing international fighters.”

I have friends, former U.S. military, who have personally travelled overseas and “volunteered” to fight ISIS at the height of it’s terror campaign.  I can say with no ambiguity, or judgment — the kinds of people who go and take part in things like that… tend to be “colorful” personalities, as Lukyanova put it.

Apparently, from Lukyanova’s description, the man being accused of trying to kill President Trump yesterday was more than colorful; he seemed crazy to her, right away.  And that’s where the story gets more than interesting for me.  According to Lukyanova, Ryan Routh was in Washington DC at the time in order to have meetings with lawmakers!

She said during the time of the interview, Routh was in Washington, D.C., to meet with lawmakers to push for the United States to do more in Ukraine’s war effort against Russia.

It was unclear if he ever actually met with anyone on Capitol Hill.

“He really supported the Ukrainian cause,” Lukyanova said. “He was really pushing for the U.S. to do more to help Ukraine.”

“I never talked to him again. I didn’t even know… until last night about his… political affiliations,” she continued.

Despite his rap sheet and her “off” feeling at the time of the interview, Lukyanova was shocked at the lengths Routh appeared to go to in order to assassinate the former president.

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“He never struck me as a would-be assassin of a former president,” Lukyanova said. “He just seemed like a little bit overzealous…”

Here is a video from March of 2023 which was part of Tanya Lukyanova’s reporting for the news platform Semafor, in which the alleged shooter appears.  He appears near the end of the video report — and you will be amazed at what he is talking about, all things considered!

“The biggest thing is spies.  They’re afraid that anybody and everybody is a Russian spy.”  -Ryan Routh, working as facilitator for bringing western (American) volunteers to fight against Russian forces in Ukraine, March 2023

Please keep in mind Semafor’s own reporting, which stated that the U.S. was spending a lot of money on training and sending fighters into Ukraine at the time.  And what was Ryan Routh doing?  He was facilitating the process of getting those volunteers placed in Ukraine and accepted by the Ukrainian authorities as legitimate.  And what was the biggest issue, according to Routh?  Spies.

So we have Ryan Routh allegedly involved in the U.S. funded movement of volunteer fighters (westerners, and Afghanis) during a time when big money was flowing, and the biggest issue on the table was the concern about… spies.  Forgive me if I make the grand leap of assuming that quite possibly, Ryan Routh, who was just apprehended and charged with the attempted assassination of President Trump… may have rubbed elbows with a few spies; at the least.

I don’t know about you, but I’m catching an awful lot of “Lee Harvey Oswald” vibes the more I dig.

According to a story put out by Semafor today, Routh was a bit “over the top”, but he was an integral part of the push to bring western fighters with combat experience into Ukraine to fight against Russian forces.

When Semafor talked to him, Routh was one of a wave of American volunteers in Ukraine, the self-appointed director of a group he’d started called the International Volunteer Center. He was, even by the standards of that frantic moment, a bit over the top, a Ukrainian involved in the effort told us at the time. But he was also, they said, authentically involved in the efforts to bring in foreign troops, and we quoted him in a story about the Afghan fighters.

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“I have had partners meeting with [the Ministry of Defense] every week and still have not been able to get them to agree to issue not one single visa for any of these soldiers,” he complained. He’d pitched his idea widely, he said, but “got yelled at by most everyone.”

When we spoke to him, he had transferred his frustration to the American government, and traveled to Washington to lobby.

“I am in Washington DC now to try and get some leadership here to help push the Ukrainians to take these soldiers,” he said. “It all hinges on the US partners here encouraging Ukraine to use these men or us merely convincing them to use them.”

One thing is for sure — the more information that comes out about the latest assassination attempt against President Trump (that is a very surreal thing to type out), it becomes more and more apparent that there is far more to this story than we previously know or understand.

We will bring you more as it comes available — no matter where it might lead us.