Posted on 04/08/2025 12:51:00 PM PDT by bitt
Federal prosecutors revealed that Ryan Routh, the accused would-be assassin of President Donald Trump, sought to obtain military-grade weapons – including a rocket launcher – from a Ukrainian contact as part of his alleged assassination plot.
Routh told his associate to "send me a rpg [rocket-propelled grenade] or stinger, and I will see what we can do… [Trump] is not good for Ukraine," according to court documents obtained by Fox News.
The pair discussed Routh's purchase options, with Routh inquiring if his associate could "ship it to me???" before explaining his intent for the military-grade weapons: "I need equipment so that Trump cannot get elected."
Routh went on to say the weapons of war get lost "all the time on the battlefield" and "one missing would not be noticed," according to the court records.
Prosecutors say that Routh also floated the idea of obtaining a rocket or missile launcher, with the suspect sending his associate an image of President Trump's plane and writing, "Trump's plane, he gets on and off daily."
Routh's defense also submitted court filings on Monday, including a 13-page motion alleging that law enforcement used "impermissibly suggestive" tactics when interviewing an eyewitness identified as T.C.M. They claim the witness felt pressured to identify Routh because of the intense atmosphere created by the presence of multiple law enforcement agencies.
"All of these circumstances created a heightened pressure to make the identification," the filing said. "It would not be difficult for any well-meaning individual to identify the one, and only, person law enforcement presented to them in this manner."
Fox News Digital has reached out to Routh's legal team and the FBI for comment.
Ryan Routh timeline
Federal authorities allege that the plot orchestrated by Routh, a native of North Carolina, "was not impromptu," but pre-meditated. They argued
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And of course Intelligence Officials knew nothing of this.
First time they’re hearing it, right?
There’s a TON we do t know about this DEMOCRAT!
I would not have the foggiest idea of how to go about obtaining such a weapon. Or, for that matter, designing a plan to use it for the suggested purpose.
How much of this was entrapment, how much was suggestion and facilitation?
Was he expecting a delivery at his stakeout site?
Every pos leftist would have celebrated this.
Zeep crew probably okay with this too.
Antifa was recruiting people to train in Ukraine and, earlier, in Turkey/Syria for the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and People’s Defense Units (YPG).
so who supplied the funds or the goodies? Was this another USAID project?
You mean to say Amazon won’t send me an rpg?
Dang it. Oh well, there’s always Zelensky.
No doubt Zelensky in on it.
No doubt.
Meanwhile can Director Patel, whom I admire, please provide the American public with an update of where things stand with the Thomas Crooks case.
With whom were his encrypted messages on his phone traced to, and to whom was he communicating with near FBI headquarters before the Butler thing went down? And what were his ties to Act Blue?
You don’t need to be Oliver Stone to understand there are deep state elements in play here. And there always has been.
“No doubt Zelensky in on it.”
I wonder if this explains his reception at the White House.
Thanks for posting. WELCOME ABOARD!
Routh used Whatsapp. So was the DOJ able to access these messages because they had his phones on which he communicated? Or does the US govt have backdoor access to Whatsapp?
****I would not have the foggiest idea of how to go about obtaining such a weapon.****
Neither did Routh, he was delusional, remember the junk rifle he ended up with?
Routh was a gadfly nutcase trying to contact world leaders and help them negotiate peace between parties, fly their fighter jets, and claiming that he could supply armies of troops, etc., here are some other examples.
Scroll down and read his posts, the guy is totally gone, he wants to solve North Korea, fly a fighter jet to kill Putin, form Division sized numbers of Afghans to move to South Korea as soldiers, he thinks Amazon sells sniper rifles.
https://x.com/visegrad24/status/1835499461881078153
1. Writes Ukrainian presidential advisor Podolyak that he, Ryan Routh, will personally buy Poland’s MiG-29 fighter jets and then “fly them at night just above ground and hit every place Putin sleeps”
4. Writes Sean Penn with a request that Sean and Ryan but Poland’s MiG-29 fighters jets together and then go together to borrow some Patriot Missile Defense Systems at the border.
“How can they say no to you?”
6. Goes to Taiwan to offer them “50 000 Afghan soldiers”
8. Tries to write to the head of Hong Kong’s local government Carrie Lam hoping that she will make him “her private American advisor at no cost”
He believes that he and Carrie Lam can sit down with the protesting students and “find solutions”
9. Writes the Belarusian opposition during the street protests in the wake of the falsified presidential election in 2020.
Advises them to “buy sniper rifles from Amazon”
11. Writes the Ukrainian National Security and Defense Council that he has 20 000 Afghan and Syrian soldiers that could come to Ukraine to fight against Russia.
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