The man suspected of trying to kill Donald Trump on Sunday is a former Trump supporter whose disillusionment with the Republican presidential nominee led him to a dark place.
“I will be glad when you are gone,” Ryan Wesley Routh posted in a message directed at the former president two months ago, shortly after another gunman failed with a previous attempt on Trump’s life.
He has not been formally identified after the incident at Trump’s golf course on Sunday. However, three law enforcement officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, told the Associated Press that he was the man in custody.
Routh was interviewed about Ukraine by The New York Times
Routh, 58, professed to stand for world peace and prosperity, pro-democracy causes, an end to war and “for all citizens to be happy”. But his