If I had a dollar for every would-be Trump assassin who’d appeared in a promotional video for a dodgy, Biden-linked entity… I’d have two dollars, which is not a lot, but it’s a whole lot more than anyone should have a right to expect.
First, it was Pennsylvania shooter Dylan Crooks who was unearthed as an extra in a promotional video for multi-trillion-dollar asset management firm, BlackRock. BlackRock has its fingers in everything from the Chinese PLA to Ukraine. It’s also closely linked to Biden Inc., with a slew of BlackRock execs joining the Biden adminstration, including advising on Ukraine.
Which brings us to the latest attempted assassination: would-be shooter Ryan Wesley Routh appeared in a 2022 promotional video for Ukraine’s notorious Azov battalion. Yes, that Azov battalion: the infamously neo-Nazi brigade.
The video is not, as many have claimed, another ad for BlackRock. But still… what are the odds?
This is all starting to read like a ’70s, post-Watergate paranoia thriller.
If nothing else, Mr Routh has quite the colourful history.
The gunman suspected of attempting to assassinate former President Donald Trump acted so erratically during his years as a pro-Ukraine activist that other Americans who encountered him flagged his behaviour to US authorities […]
Chelsea Walsh, a nurse who had several encounters with Routh in Kyiv in 2022, said his threats of violence worried her so much that she conveyed her concerns to a Customs and Border Protection officer in an hour-long interview at Washington’s Dulles airport in June 2022.
Walsh told the officer during the interview, which took place after she returned to the US, that Routh was among the most dangerous Americans she met during her month-and-a-half-long stint in Ukraine.
She showed the officer a notebook listing more than dozen names of Americans and others whose actions had alarmed her, she recounted. Under the heading “Overall Predatory Behavior (or anti-social traits)” were four names. Routh’s was at the top […]
When 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.
If all this is sounding a bit weird, others closer to the drama are noticing, too.
[Donald Trump] said he still found certain things about the first attempt on his life were “pretty strange.”
“The first one they should learn more about,” he said. “They have apps that they haven’t opened yet, which is pretty strange. And the father went out and got the biggest lawyer in the state of Pennsylvania, which is pretty strange, the father of the shooter, we’re talking about in Butler, the first one. And that’s pretty strange,” he added.
As for Routh, he may have stood out as a weirdo even in Ukraine, but he was nothing if not thorough.
Court documents revealed Routh had been in the vicinity of the golf course, where he had set up with a rifle on the 6th hole behind bushes, for more than 11 hours, according to mobile one data, from around 2am to 1.30pm the following day after which he was arrested […]
The 12 hour wait and GoPro – which suggests he was planning to film himself in his alleged attack – suggests there had been some advanced planning before he arrived at the golf course.
Martin County Sheriff Will Snyder is noticing, too.
“How does a guy from not here get all the way to Trump International, realize that the president, former president of the United States is golfing and is able to get a rifle in that vicinity...? Is this guy part of a conspiracy? Is he a lone gunman...? But if he's part of a conspiracy then this whole thing really takes on a very ominous tone.”
Which is putting it mildly.
