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September 16, 2024 - 9:15pm
There are many questions circulating about the second assassination attempt of Donald Trump in two months. Yet one that will particularly set conspiracy theorists abuzz is whether Ryan Wesley Routh, the alleged suspect in West Palm Beach, made meaningful contact with any foreign governments.
Social media is already lit up with people comparing 58-year-old Routh to Lee Harvey Oswald, who at one point defected to the Soviet Union, met with Soviet officials at the embassy in Mexico shortly before the shooting of President John F. Kennedy, and allegedly mingled with Cuban intelligence. These facts are highly credible, but are often used by less credible members of the tinfoil hat brigade in colourful ways.
Routh, though, seems to have travelled to Ukraine and Taiwan in recent months. He at least sought to make contact with their governments for the purpose of defending each country from invasions, according to posts on his X account.
Both the New York Times and Semafor quoted Routh in 2023, and the reporters in question are each now sharing more information about why. Writing in the Times, Thomas Gibbons-Neff said: “I was put in touch with Mr. Routh through an old colleague and friend from Kabul, Najim Rahim. Through the strange nexus of combatants as one war ended and another began, he had learned of Mr. Routh from a source of his in Iran, a former Afghan special operations soldier who was trying to get out of Iran and fight in Ukraine.” To be clear, Gibbons-Neff is saying his own source knew of Routh through a contact in Iran.
“Mr. Routh, who had spent some time in Ukraine trying to raise support for the war, was seeking recruits from among Afghan soldiers who fled the Taliban,” the story continued. “And so the former Afghan soldier reckoned Mr. Routh could get him to the Ukrainian front.” What’s more, Routh reportedly “talked of buying off corrupt officials, forging passports and doing whatever it took to get his Afghan cadre to Ukraine, but he had no real way to accomplish his goals”.
Former Semafor reporter Tanya Lukyanova, who now works for The Free Press, said Routh told her that “Ukraine is very often hard to work with. Many foreign soldiers leave after a week in Ukraine or must move from unit to unit to find a place they are respected and appreciated.” Lukyanova claimed that Routh appeared back then as “just a harmless loon”.
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SubscribeInteresting. My first question is where did he get the money for all this travel and intrigue?
If by “foreign ties” you mean “deep state pawn”, you are tight on the button. The bureaucrats and democrats who have been pushing lies and dog whistling – or explicitly- calling for violence against Trump knew their inflammatory lies would inspire the vulnerable and naive to act out their wicked calls.
The far left DNC/Deep State LOVES stochastic terrorism when it is employed by them against their political and cultural enemies.
It was impossible for Routh to live the life he led without attracting the attention of people who work for various 3 letter agencies.
Well if this author seriously thinks anyone who suspects Oswald as being part of a conspiracy belongs to the tinfoil hat brigade I suppose it is little wonder that she is fingering Iran. Drivel.
If Oswald was a lone gunman the files wouldn’t have been sealed for another outrageous period of time.
Literally everyone involved is long dead! The only reason they would still be sealed is if there was stuff in there damaging to current agencies and institutions.
Yes Emily, there are important questions to be answered, however you ought to know by now that they will not be posed nor answered by our media. And if the questions are answered by those outside of MSM, the results will be unknown to all but those who find them in podcasts or publications like the FP.
I appreciate Emily’s energy and doggedness to pursue stories but am becoming disenchanted with her disinterest in challenging big media’s control of narratives.
Yes, I had very high hopes of Emily, she started off so well. She’s petered out, maybe wants a quiet life, who knows. Couldn’t blame her. But it’s a shame because she’s very talented..
600 e-mails! Thanks for getting into his head, but of course do stay away from his world. This and your video present a well-rounded and current summary, with good caveats for conspiracy theorists. Thank you, and I hope that your hard work as a generalist today will pay premiums as you specialize in the future.
By those who get paid $200 an hour for the opinion, he is personality disordered. For the politically aligned he is either a Democrat or Republican stooge. For the tin foil hat brigade he works with foreign powers or agencies. The rest of us believe him to be bat sh*t crazy, a state not dissimilar from 15-20% of his American compatriots.
I’d say you are about right on all your estimations…including the 15 – 20%.
This site should really be called Herd and not UnHerd. There is no challenging or questioning of establishment narratives. This site is bait and switch effort to funnel people back into True Believers.