Routh, 58, was arrested on Sunday hours after he aimed an AK-style rifle at Trump from a makeshift sniper’s nest.
HONOLULU — Alleged would-be Trump assassin Ryan Wesley Routh may have targeted the former president over his admiration of Russian President Vladimir Putin , a former coworker told The Post.“He was against the war in Ukraine … but that’s what I put together, that he never liked him because he was with ,” Routh’s former coworker, John Tamura, told The Post Thursday of the assassination attempt, the second move on Trump’s life in just under three months.
Democrats have frequently accused Trump of relying on Russian help to win the presidency in 2016, despite the fact that an investigation by special counsel Robert Mueller turned up no evidence of unlawful collaboration between the Kremlin and the Republican’s campaign – and a follow-up probe by special counselRouth, meanwhile, had an obsession with the Ukraine war and even self-published a book about the conflict last year in which he encouraged Iran to kill Trump.
Tamura worked with Routh until about four or five months ago, when Routh said he was going to visit his sick mom in North Carolina, he said.
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