Ryan Wesley Routh, the man behind the second assassination attempt against President Donald Trump in September 2024, tried to purchase an RPG from an asset he believed to be in Ukraine, a court filing has revealed.
The filing on behalf of the United States government was entered at the U.S. District Court in the Southern District of Florida on Monday.
The would-be assassin was allegedly using an encrypted messaging app to correspond with an individual “believed to be a Ukrainian with access to military weapons” a month before being spotted with a rifle at the Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Florida.
Routh and the individual spoke about the July assassination attempt on Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, where the then-presidential candidate was shot and wounded. Corey Comperatore, a retired volunteer fire chief, was killed in the assassination…
