Woman who raised red flags about suspected Trump shooter slams authorities’ response

A pistillate who raised concerns astir Trump assassination fishy Ryan Routh to U.S. authorities implicit 2 years ago, said much could’ve been done to support the erstwhile president.

“Ryan Routh is simply a ticking clip bomb,” Chelsea Walsh recalls telling  U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials astatine Dulles International Airport successful June 2022.

Walsh, who worked arsenic a caregiver assistance idiosyncratic successful Kyiv during the archetypal months of the warfare successful Ukraine, precocious told the Associated Press astir the troubling interactions she’d had with Routh, who had traveled to Ukraine to enlistee overseas soldiers to articulation the fight.

As clip went on, she recalls, Routh would go angrier, much assertive and unhinged, threatening to pain down a euphony studio, kicking a panhandler and adjacent speaking astir his children with hatred.

Martin County Sheriff’s Office via AP

In this imaged released by the Martin County, Fla., Sheriff’s Office, instrumentality enforcement officers apprehension Ryan Routh, the antheral suspected successful the evident assassination effort of Donald Trump, Sunday, Sept. 15, 2024.

Routh would besides picture his crippled to assassinate Russian President Vladimir Putin, saying helium would “kill him successful his sleep” and giving elaborate explanations of the explosives and poisons helium planned to usage to scope his goal.

According to Walsh, she archetypal notified authorities of her concerns successful June 2022, during an hour-long interrogation with Customs and Border Protection officials. She besides repeated her concerns to investigators of the FBI and the International Criminal Police Organization, oregon Interpol.

“There is 1 idiosyncratic you request to watch,” she said. “And that is Ryan Routh.”

Routh was arrested connected Sept. 15 aft authorities said helium was caught hiding successful the bushes astatine a play tribunal successful West Palm Beach adjacent Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home.

The 58-year-old, who was allegedly equipped with an AK-47-style battle rifle, was aboriginal charged with 2 weapon crimes in transportation with the incident.

According to Walsh, she hadn’t thought overmuch astir Routh until she saw him successful the news, accused of stalking the erstwhile president successful an evident assassination attempt.

Walsh, who lives conscionable miles from the West Palm Beach play course, said much could person been done to debar the perchance deadly incident.

“The authorities person decidedly dropped the shot connected this,” she said. “They were warned.”

With News Wire Services