New York Times Reporter Revisits Earlier Interview With Suspect at Trump Golf Course

The New York Times ^ | September 15, 2024 | Thomas Gibbons-Neff

[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.

[Red Badger]

Liberals are sooooo easy to fool.

They paint their world with such colorful stupidity.......................

[subterfuge]

Zeeper is the dumbest phrase ever, used to divide FReepers. It’s working well too.

[NorthMountain]

“Zeeper” is anybody the Putin fanboys dislike.

[Liz]

.........that gaping hole in a liberal’s logic........

Grand Canyon comes to mind........

[TexasGator]

“A Zeeper is a Freeper “

Routh is a Freeper?

[wildcard_redneck]

"Routh is a Freeper?"

Not that I know of, what I am saying is that Routh believes everything that the Zeepers believe. The man probably has had contact with the Bush Crime Family and the Biden Crime Family as well. Pure scum.

[wildcard_redneck]

Please do explain why the marxists in America love Routh? Scratch a Zeeper and find an American-hating, bloody-minded, communist.

[wildcard_redneck]

"Zeeper is the dumbest phrase ever, used to divide FReepers. It’s working well too."

It doesn't help that the Zeepers are rabid, screeching bastards either. They are always calling of "orc blood" or some other creepy thing.

They just flat out care more for war than they do American people.

[Svartalfiar]

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.

And if you want the opposing force:

A Peeper is a Freeper that is gay for Putin and his rippling muscles. They are Commie decepticons that worship the forever war like the Bushes and they rank right next to Zeepers, somewhere between explosive diarrhea and venomous snakes.

[Kudsman]

Why do most people on these threads sound like grade school, sandbox bullies?

[Kudsman]

Oops, specifically I was referring to the UKe/Russo threads. I snapped to the previous poster comment. Didn’t realize they were infecting a serious subject matter with their idocy.

[jpp113]

Has any of our zeepers not been seen since saturday or sunday?

[1Old Pro]

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.

Sounds like many zeepers and many dem pols.

[TexasGator]

Troll Alert!

[TexasGator]

“Not that I know of, what I am saying is that Routh believes everything that the Zeepers believe.”

OK. You had me worried when you said he was a Freeper.

[wildcard_redneck]

Good on you for trying to make “peeper” a thing.....

I find that Zeepers are too stupid to meme well. Just sayin’.

[ANKE69]

Huh??

[piasa]

Nice catch

[OldHarbor]

Meet Soo Kim.

Dr. Soo Kim is a policy practitioner and thought leader in national security, defense, homeland security, and the intelligence community.

During her seven years as an East Asia analyst in the Central Intelligence Agency, she served senior officials in the National Security Council, Office of the Secretary of Defense, Department of State, and other agencies.

As a management consultant to the Department of Homeland Security, Soo advised senior-level leaders on strategy and implementation.

She has taught classes on East Asian history at American University and frequently lectures on foreign policy to U.S. and international audiences.

For the RAND Corporation, she assessed the federal government and private foundations.

Soo Kim and Ryan Routh are Social Media pals. Nothing to see there.

[Justa]

Doubtful he was CIA. Only a moron enlists the assistance of a lunatic.