Suspect In Attempted Assassination Of President Trump Self-Published Book Urging Foreign Nation To “Assassinate Trump”

Ryan Wesley Routh, the suspect in the attempted assassination of Donald Trump, penned a book urging Iran to assassinate Trump.

According to the Associated Press, the 58-year-old self-published a book in 2023 titled “Ukraine’s Unwinnable War.”

“You are free to assassinate Trump,” Routh wrote of Iran, the outlet noted. 

Man accused of trying to kill Trump wrote a book urging Iran to assassinate the ex-president https://t.co/1Ma3sfG9kr

— The Associated Press (@AP) September 16, 2024

From the Associated Press:

Routh, 58, was arrested Sunday and charged Monday after authorities say he stalked the GOP presidential nominee as he golfed in West Palm Beach, Florida, with an AK-47-style rifle in an apparent assassination attempt thwarted by the Secret Service.

Through his voluminous online footprint, public records, news interviews and videos, a picture emerged of Routh as a man with a criminal past, plenty of outrage and views ranging from the left to the right, including support for Bernie Sanders, Tulsi Gabbard, Nikki Haley and Trump.

Voter records show he registered as an unaffiliated voter in North Carolina in 2012, most recently voting in person during the state’s Democratic primary in March.

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Routh also made 19 small donations totaling $140 since 2019 to ActBlue, a political action committee that supports Democratic candidates, according to federal campaign finance records.

In a tweet in June 2020, after the police killing of George Floyd, Routh said then-President Trump could win reelection by issuing an executive order to prosecute police misconduct. However, in recent years, his posts appear to have soured on Trump, and he expressed support for President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic presidential nominee.

“Would-be Trump shooter Ryan Routh has published a 291 page book, ‘Unwinnable War,’ about his time in Ukraine’s Int’l Legion,” Max Blumenthal, editor of The Grayzone, commented.

“Routh says he’d like to see Putin assassinated, seems to hope for Trump’s assassination as well, and calls for the US to ‘instigate’ a nuclear war with Russia,” he added.

Would-be Trump shooter Ryan Routh has published a 291 page book, “Unwinnable War,” about his time in Ukraine’s Int’l Legion

Routh says he’d like to see Putin assassinated, seems to hope for Trump’s assassination as well, and calls for the US to “instigate” a nuclear war with… pic.twitter.com/z4ZNPxwpov

— Max Blumenthal (@MaxBlumenthal) September 16, 2024

“Wow. Attempted Trump Assassin Ryan Routh wrote a book on the Ukraine war. In the book he tells Iran to assassinate Trump while praising John Kerry for the Iran Deal. He also calls Trump an idiot and says he ‘perpetrated’ Jan. 6th. He sounds like a mainstream media addict,” conservative activist Robby Starbuck wrote.

Wow. Attempted Trump Assassin Ryan Routh wrote a book on the Ukraine war. In the book he tells Iran to assassinate Trump while praising John Kerry for the Iran Deal. He also calls Trump an idiot and says he “perpetrated” Jan. 6th.

He sounds like a mainstream media addict. pic.twitter.com/OY0iBVEHek

— Robby Starbuck (@robbystarbuck) September 16, 2024

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From the New York Post:

The man accused of attempting to assassinate Donald Trump at his golf club on Sunday had called on the Iranian regime to kill the former president in a book he self-published with his wife, Kathleen Shaffer.

Ryan Wesley Routh, 58, apologizes to Iranians and said he blamed himself for having voted for Trump in 2016 in “Ukraine’s Unwinnable War,” a rambling account of his views on foreign affairs.

“I must take part of the blame for the retarded child that we elected for our next president that ended up being brainless, but I am man enough to say that I misjudged and made a terrible mistake and Iran I apologize,” Routh writes in the book, which was self-published last year.

“You are free to assassinate Trump as well as me for that error in judgment and the dismantling of the [nuclear] deal. No one here in the US seems to have the balls to put natural selection to work or even unnatural selection,” he added.

Two years after he was elected, Trump scuttled US participation in a nuclear deal with Iran and reimposed sanctions that had been lifted under a deal which was put into place in 2015.

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In addition to Trump, Routh also called for the assassination of Vladimir Putin in the book, which is available on Amazon and was edited by Shaffer, 61, a manager at Old Navy in Hawaii, according to her LinkedIn profile.

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