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New York Times Reporter Revisits Earlier Interview With Suspect at Trump Golf Course
The New York Times ^ | September 15, 2024 | Thomas Gibbons-Neff

Posted on 09/16/2024 6:08:56 PM PDT by KingofZion

Last year I was working on an article about foreign fighters and volunteers in Ukraine...

Among the people I interviewed: Ryan Wesley Routh, the 58-year-old man whom the F.B.I. is investigating in what it is calling an assassination attempt...

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...

There were a few complications. Mr. Routh, a former construction worker from Greensboro, N. C., said he never fought in Ukraine himself — he was too old and had no military experience.

*** When I talked to Mr. Routh in March of last year, he had compiled a list of hundreds of Afghans spread between Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan whom he wanted to fly, somehow, to Ukraine. Mr. Routh told one Afghan he was helping: “I am just a civilian.”

My conversation with Mr. Routh was brief. He was in Washington, D.C., he said, and had planned for a two-hour meeting with some congressmen about Ukraine. (It’s unclear if that meeting ever happened.)

By the time I got off the phone with Mr. Routh some minutes later, it was clear he was in way over his head.

He 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. At one point he mentioned arranging a U.S. military transport flight from Iraq to Poland with Afghan refugees willing to fight.

I shook my head. It sounded ridiculous, but the tone in Mr. Routh’s voice said otherwise. He was going to back Ukraine’s war effort, no matter what.

Like many of the volunteers I interviewed, he fell off the map again. Until Sunday.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; Ukraine
KEYWORDS: assassination; cafemilano; danamilbank; failedassassin2; gibbonsneff; helsinkicommission; iran; media; najimrahim; newyorktimes; osce; routh; routhtimeline; routhtruth; ryanrouth; ryanwesleyrouth; thomasgibbonsneff; ukraine; wesleyrouth; zeeperassassin; zeepwarmustcontinue
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How was this guy not on the radar for FBI and secret service?? Something just doesn't add up.
1 posted on 09/16/2024 6:08:56 PM PDT by KingofZion
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Thomas Gibbons-Neff -- "...the F.B.I. is investigating what it is calling an assassination attempt"

Mr. Gibbons-Neff couldn't slip an "alleged" in there just for good measure?

2 posted on 09/16/2024 6:11:45 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (May the soy boys, feminazis, and alphabet weirdos choke on the toxic fumes of our masculinity)
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To: KingofZion

Routh met with U.S. senators, he was a well known actor in neocon politics. He was probably a Zeeper.


3 posted on 09/16/2024 6:13:06 PM PDT by wildcard_redneck (He who sacrifices freedom for security deserves neither.)
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To: KingofZion

The reporter must have given advice IMHO.


4 posted on 09/16/2024 6:13:28 PM PDT by Dacula (Catholics against Kamala)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Mr gibbons-neff is quite the creep.


5 posted on 09/16/2024 6:14:18 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp??)
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To: KingofZion

The reporter is involved with the conspiracy.


6 posted on 09/16/2024 6:15:56 PM PDT by George J. Jetso
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To: KingofZion

BUMP


7 posted on 09/16/2024 6:17:53 PM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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“He was probably a Zeeper.”

I don’t know what a Zeeper is officially but got the impression that a Zeeper was first a Freeper?


8 posted on 09/16/2024 6:20:25 PM PDT by TexasGator (l . . l / l / . l l . l)
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To: KingofZion

How did the author come to know and make contact w Routh?

Why didn’t the author point out all of this when he interviewed and reported on Routh in 2023?


9 posted on 09/16/2024 6:22:21 PM PDT by ARW
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Hyphenated Neff is an alleged reporter.


10 posted on 09/16/2024 6:25:25 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: TexasGator

do you read FR very often?

(playing 6 years old doesn’t really work here)


11 posted on 09/16/2024 6:26:47 PM PDT by eyedigress (Trump is my President!)
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No kidding...


12 posted on 09/16/2024 6:30:16 PM PDT by mowowie
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"I don’t know what a Zeeper is officially but got the impression that a Zeeper was first a Freeper?"

You have to be pulling my leg. We've been beating up on Zeepers for two years on this forum and if you don't know what the term means I cannot help you. You've been here quite a while so I won't even pretend that your question is honest..

13 posted on 09/16/2024 6:36:41 PM PDT by wildcard_redneck (He who sacrifices freedom for security deserves neither.)
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“How was this guy not on the radar for FBI and secret service??”

There are to many Democrats to keep track of?


14 posted on 09/16/2024 6:39:15 PM PDT by DAC21
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“You have to be pulling my leg. We’ve been beating up on Zeepers for two years on this forum and if you don’t know what the term means I cannot help you. You’ve been here quite a while so I won’t even pretend that your question is honest..”

You must know that I don’t do Ukraine threads. How about an honest answer instead. I guess you didn’t see JR’s post today ...


15 posted on 09/16/2024 6:44:02 PM PDT by TexasGator (l . . l / l / . l l . l)
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I will humor you.

A Zeeper is a Freeper that is gay for Zelensky and the Ukraine. They are neocon deceptions that worship the Forever War like the Cheneys and they rank somewhere between explosive diarrhea and venomous snakes.


16 posted on 09/16/2024 6:46:54 PM PDT by wildcard_redneck (He who sacrifices freedom for security deserves neither.)
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I’ve been hearing that term here more and more. I’m assuming it means a gen Z Freeper, but maybe I’m way off


17 posted on 09/16/2024 6:46:55 PM PDT by Blue Highway
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To: KingofZion

He was an “asset”.


18 posted on 09/16/2024 6:54:26 PM PDT by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same. )
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“He was an “asset”.”

Absolutely. this is CIA work here. To the benefit of the MIC.


19 posted on 09/16/2024 7:00:36 PM PDT by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: Blue Highway

I’ve been here for years and also assumed it meant genZ.


20 posted on 09/16/2024 7:00:43 PM PDT by ladyjane
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