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Ryan Routh planned to assassinate Donald Trump outside his Florida golf club — and thankfully, he failed. Blaze News investigative journalist Steve Baker has done some digging on the would-be assassin, and he isn’t thrilled with what he’s found. “What we’ve uncovered is more questions that are not being answered,” Baker tells Jill Savage and Matthew Peterson of “Blaze News Tonight.” “Was he there by luck of the draw from three different courses that President Trump could have played that morning?” “They could answer all of these questions right now. They could also answer the question about whether that GoPro...

Fresh information has revealed more about 58-year-old Ryan Wesley Routh, who is suspected of attempting to assassinate former President Donald Trump at a Florida golf course. A man armed with an AK-47 had a GoPro and was “intent on filming” an attempted assassination of Donald Trump at his Florida golf course before being shot at by Secret Service on Sunday. Mr Trump “is safe” following the incident at the Trump International Golf Course close to his Mar-a-Lago home, with the suspect in custody. US media has named the suspect as 58-year-old Ryan Wesley Routh. “The FBI has responded to West...

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...