Sep 18, 2024
Trump Gunman's GLARING RED FLAGS Revealed
Alleged Trump gunman Ryan Wesley Routh was warned about to several U.S. authorities before the incident at former President Donald Trump's West Palm Beach golf club.
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An incredibly damning
Wall Street Journal report has revealed
that the would be assassin, Ryan Ruth,
the man who attempted to take
Donald Trump's life over the weekend,
has been previously reported
to several government agencies, including
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the FBI, Customs and Border Patrol and the
State Department, but no serious action
was taken until it was almost too late.
So before I give you the details, John,
has government always been
this incompetent or is this like
a relatively new, you know, revelation?
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Like what's what's going on here?
Well, I mean, yes, in a general sense,
I do think that it's always
been incompetent because unfortunately,
at least up until the present,
it's always been staffed by humans.
And humans are inherently fallible.
I do think that, like a person being
reported can mean many things,
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and it can be taken seriously or not
for good reasons or for bad reasons.
And even once, like there is a wide range
of behaviors that would make
a regular person look at another person
and say that person is a danger.
But that doesn't necessarily mean
that there's anything legally
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that can be done about it at that point.
Like there there are a lot of gray
areas of concern
that are not really actionable, at least
in like an open and democratic society.
Like, you know, you could be concerned
about a person, you can get a creepy vibe,
you can see something threatening.
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But we don't just lock people up.
I mean, thankfully, there have been
many cases that we've talked about
in which, you know, the FBI has stepped in
and stopped something.
It looks like there's maybe a situation
like that in Florida that just happened.
And so we have to evaluate the actual
evidence, like what was known about them.
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And I know that you're about
to present that in this case.
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Yeah.
And look he did have some run ins
with the law previously including
a standoff with police for several hours.
He was found to have
what they referred to.
Was it a weapon of mass destruction?
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It was like a fully automatic gun
and some other weapons
that he wasn't supposed to have
because he was already convicted anyway.
Just like just disaster.
So let's talk about why he was reported
to these government agencies earlier.
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So there were a lot of red flags
during his time in Ukraine.
So Chelsea Walsh, who's a nurse who served
in Ukraine, reported him to Customs
and Border Patrol back in 2022
because his behavior was alarming.
Chelsea Walsh showed the officer
a notebook listing more than a dozen names
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of Americans and others
whose actions had alarmed her.
She recounted under the heading
overall predatory behavior
or antisocial traits were four names.
Ruth's was at the top
when the officer noted that there were
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a lot of names, she replied.
Of all the people on there,
Ryan Ruth should be number one.
Walsh told The Wall Street Journal,
which reviewed her notebook.
And here's why she was
so disturbed by him.
So he talked about wanting to kill
Russian President Vladimir Putin
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and North Korea's leader Kim Jong un.
Walsh recalled saying he was.
He also mentioned Trump
and President Biden, though Walsh said she
couldn't recall if he threatened them.
That's not good. I mean, that's.
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Look, I don't I don't really know what
the correct response to this is, because,
you know, you do bring up a good point.
If someone raises alarm about someone,
you don't just automatically
throw them in prison.
Right.
But was there an investigation into this
after Chelsea Walsh
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raised concerns about him?
Like I that's what I'm
always curious about, right?
Like, you see it happen when it comes
to like school shootings as well.
The school shooting happens and then
you find out that there were reports
raising red flags about the shooter
before the shooter happened.
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Okay.
Well, was there a robust
investigation into this?
Did they see if the shooter
had access to weapons?
You get what I'm saying?
Like, that's what I really want to know.
Because if these government agencies
actually did an investigation and there
wasn't anything that they could, you know,
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take him into custody for,
then I'm not really sure
there was a solution in preventing him
from getting so close to Donald Trump.
And luckily he didn't manage
to cause any harm.
But he could have.
Yeah, yeah, he didn't
even get any shots off or anything.
And let's bear in mind that I'm
assuming in this particular case,
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the right is probably up in arms over,
like they should have stopped him earlier.
They should have stopped him.
Let's bear in mind there's a ton of stuff
that someone could do that to you.
Or I would read as incredibly concerning.
Maybe threatening,
especially involving guns,
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that how do you think the right would
normally if it wasn't about an assassin
targeting Donald Trump would freak out
over if the FBI investigated or tracked,
let alone locked up someone
for amassing an arsenal, having guns
while posting vague threats online
like they would generally say
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you need to back off of these people.
These are our rights.
It's why, for the most part,
I don't even know what they expected them
to do with this particular guy.
Up until he points his gun at the
president, he's walking around in Florida
with a long gun.
That's that's freedom, baby.
According to the right,
what's inherently dangerous
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about having an AR 15 and walking around?
They say people should be
able to do that in Texas.
They should do that wherever.
That's your right
under the Second Amendment.
So there's a lot of stuff that they will
temporarily pretend is suspicious enough
for the FBI to do something only in
the immediate aftermath of these attacks.
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But 99% of the rest of the time,
they would say, no,
the government needs to back off.
That's just your right as an American
to do those things.
Yeah.
I mean, look, that's a good point.
But I would say that if the individual
is specifically saying things
that seem threatening,
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or if it appears that he's planning
to cause harm, like who cares what the
right says, who cares what the left says?
- The person should be investigated fully.
- I agree.
I'm just saying expect that they're going
to have a problem with it.
Yeah.
No, I totally hear you on that. Okay.
So Walsh, by the way,
also reported him again the next year
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in 2023, this time to the FBI.
She filed the second report
after hearing that he was trying to get
Syrian refugees to fight in Ukraine.
And Walsh wasn't the only person
who took note of his bizarre behavior.
Ruth was well known among volunteer aid
groups in Ukraine as a fraudster
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and kind of a whack job, said Sarah Adams,
a former CIA officer who helped run a
network that linked 50 aid groups to share
information and coordinate humanitarian
and volunteer efforts in 2023,
Adams sent the following message
to Ukraine aid groups about Ruth,
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quote Beware of American Ryan.
Ruth Adams stated that a number so vague.
I mean, hopefully there was more
to it than that.
Adams stated that a number of aid groups
eventually reported him
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to the State Department.
They were worried that he could be doing
human trafficking or immigration fraud,
and that's because he would falsely claim
that he was working with the Ukrainian
government to recruit foreign fighters.
But it turns out that was a lie.
They knew it was a lie.
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And that's part of the reason
why they reported him.
And it's also worth noting
that Ruth was reported to the FBI long
before the war in Ukraine, back in 2019.
The FBI received an anonymous tip
that he was in possession of a firearm
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despite being a felon.
But the tipster wouldn't respond
to further questioning from the FBI.
So they closed.
They just closed the investigation.
Nice, Well, look, at least
the Secret Service was able to stop him
before he was able to cause any harm.
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But I just feel like, I don't know,
I feel like we went through an era after
nine over 11 where any little misstep,
even an innocent misstep, would like lead
to you being on a terrorist watch list.
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Like, almost immediately.
But then now you hear all these stories
about people who have been reported
to various federal government agencies
for bizarre behavior and threats.
And it's like, oh, yeah,
we closed the investigation.
We had a follow up question
for the tipster.
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Didn't answer any of them,
so we just closed the investigation.
Okay. Thanks, FBI.
You guys are doing a great job. Fantastic.
- Just unbelievable.
- Thanks for watching.
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