Why Did Journalists Like Me Take Ryan Routh Seriously?
Bodycam footage of the apprehension of Trump’s would-be assassin Ryan Routh. (Martin County Sheriff's Office via Facebook)
Trump’s would-be assassin was someone we should have treated with extreme skepticism. We didn’t. That’s because he was the right kind of crazy.
In March 2023 I interviewed a strange man named Ryan Routh. We had been introduced by a source inside Ukraine’s foreign legion, a military unit composed of foreign volunteers from more than fifty countries all over the world.
Routh, a 58-year-old former roofing contractor from Greensboro, NC, who had no military experience, had set up a private organizat…
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