by R. Cort Kirkwood, The New American:
Federal prosecutors allege that Ryan Wesley Routh, the man charged with attempting to assassinate President Donald Trump, also tried to purchase a rocket launcher from Ukraine.
The startling revelation of how badly the would-be assassin wanted to murder the then-GOP presidential candidate is contained in a motion to admit evidence that might otherwise not be allowed under federal rules of evidence.
The revelation raises a disturbing if not frightening question: Did Ukrainian dictator Volodomyr Zelensky know about the attempted purchase, and not alert American authorities?
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The motion also says Routh possessed ammunition for a high-powered sniper rifle and reconnoitered the area months before he attempted to murder the president on September 15.
The motion also says Routh possessed ammunition for a high-powered sniper rifle and reconnoitered the area months before he attempted to murder the president on September 15.
BREAKING: The DOJ revealed that Trump assassin Ryan Routh tried to buy military weapons from Ukraine to kill Trump, including a ROCKET LAUNCHER.
Routh asked the Ukrainian Military for a “Stinger or RPG to take out Trump”because Trump would be “Bad for Ukraine”
Routh goes on… pic.twitter.com/u6qHldOup1
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Travel Evidence
The motion explains that prosecutors introduce evidence that Routh, 58, “traveled from North Carolina to West Palm Beach — an area he had no connection to — in late March and early April 2024 and spent over a week there engaging in apparent reconnaissance for his assassination attempt.”
Routh remained in Palm Beach — where Trump plays golf at his Trump International course — between March 29 and April 5. Then he returned to North Carolina, the motion says:
During this trip, Routh engaged in some of the same conduct as the August-September phase of the assassination plot, including using a stolen license plate to avoid detection, purchasing and using multiple burner phones, and engaging in cash withdrawals, including Western Union transfers at a check cashing store just a quarter mile from Trump International.
The motion says his “purpose … is evident” because on returning to North Carolina, he gave a friend a box with burner phones, ammunition, and “copies of his ‘Dear World’ letter,” which “called for President Trump’s assassination and predicted his own imprisonment — a letter that is part-and-parcel of this March and April trip.”
The trip must be admitted because it was a “substantial step” in the plot to murder Trump, the motion continues. The trip is “undeniably necessary context for the jury to understand the significance of Routh’s conduct on September 15 at Trump International because it shows his planning for what happened that day.”
Both trips — March-April and August-September — “strike at the heart of Routh’s long standing criminal intent,” prosecutors wrote.
Another key piece of evidence, prosecutors argue, is Routh’s plan to escape to Mexico after he murdered Trump. Routh had “an extensive WhatsApp conversation with a person Routh saved in his phone as ‘Ramiro’ who lives in Mexico,” the motion argues. Those conversations “show his planned flight from law enforcement after committing the crime — evidence well-settled to be direct evidence of guilt.”
Weapons Evidence
Along with evidence of Routh’s travel and escape plans, prosecutors will introduce evidence of “improvised destructive device components and .50 caliber ammunition that were recovered from the box containing Routh’s ‘Dear World’ letter and his burner phones — all of which proves Routh’s intent to kill and to possess a firearm as a convicted felon.”
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