Ryan Wesley Routh, accused of attempting to assassinate former President Donald Trump, was flagged to authorities by multiple sources months before the incident. Chelsea Walsh, a nurse who encountered Routh in Ukraine, alerted Customs and Border Protection, the FBI, and Interpol about his threats of violence and recruitment of Syrian refugees. Despite these warnings, no action was taken.
The FBI , Interpol , and Customs and Border Protection were warned about former President Donald Trump ’s second alleged assassin, Ryan Wesley Routh , months before Sunday, when the Secret Service spotted Routh with a rifle about 400 yards away from the former president.Chelsea Walsh, a nurse who had several encounters with Routh in Kyiv, Ukraine, alerted authorities to Routh’s threats of violence multiple times, sheon Monday.
Again, in 2023, Walsh alerted the FBI and Interpol about Routh, but she did not hear back from the FBI, theWhen she heard in 2023 that Routh was attempting to recruit Syrian refugees to fight in Ukraine, she filed an online report with the FBI and Interpol outlining her concerns about Routh and others, she said. Neither Customs nor the FBI followed up with her, she said. The FBI didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis launched his own investigation into the attempted assassination on Tuesday, following the FBI and Customs and Border Protection’s failure to take action against Routh. “It’s not in the best interest of our state or our nation to have the same federal agencies seeking to prosecute Donald Trump leading this investigation,” DeSantis told reporters. “The public deserves to know the truth about how this assassination came to be.”
Wendell Husebo is a political reporter with Breitbart News and a former RNC War Room Analyst.
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