Man in custody after Trump golf club incident was once convicted of possessing a machine gun

The man was identified as Ryan Wesley Routh, 58. Property and court records indicate a long criminal past in North Carolina and that he lived most recently in Hawaii.

The man was identified as Ryan Wesley Routh, 58. Property and court records indicate a long criminal past in North Carolina and that he lived most recently in Hawaii.

Sept. 15, 2024, 8:56 PM EDT

The man in custody in connection with what is being described as a second assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump has a long criminal and civil court history, including a conviction for possessing a machine gun.

Ryan Wesley Routh, 58, was taken into custody after shots were fired at Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Florida, on Sunday, three senior law enforcement sources said. In 2002, court records show, he was convicted of possessing a weapon of mass destruction — the machine gun.

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In that case, a man named Ryan Routh, 36 at the time, allegedly led authorities on a vehicle chase before he holed up at a roofing company in Greensboro, North Carolina, according to an account at the time by the Greensboro News & Record.

A person named Ryan Routh resided for decades in North Carolina, property records show. Most recently, a Ryan Routh lived in the small coastal community of Kaaawa on Oahu’s eastern shore in Hawaii. Authorities there did not immediately respond to an inquiry about any possible contacts with Routh.

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After the 2002 arrest, authorities allegedly found the suspect in possession of a fully automatic machine gun, according to the Greensboro News & Record report. The arrest coincides with North Carolina criminal court records that include Routh's conviction for possession of a weapon of mass destruction.

Records also show convictions for carrying a concealed weapon, possession of stolen property and hit-and-run. In those cases, which included misdemeanor convictions for violations such as resisting an officer and driving on a suspended license, the defendant received a suspended sentence and parole or probation.

There’s no record of time spent in state prison related to those cases in the early 2000s.

Court records show more than 100 criminal counts have been filed against Ryan Routh in North Carolina, most in Guilford County, which underlies Greensboro. The exact outcome of each case was not immediately clear Sunday.

Photos show a weapon, a backpack and a GoPro camera on a fence outside Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Fla., taken after an apparent attempt to assassinate former President Donald Trump on Sunday.

Photos show a weapon, a backpack and a GoPro camera on a fence outside Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Fla., taken after an apparent attempt to assassinate former President Donald Trump on Sunday.

The court records for a person named Ryan Routh also show a 2003 divorce, as well as multiple civil judgments after contractors and individuals sued a roofing company he helped run.

On Sunday, Palm Beach County State’s Attorney Dave Aronberg said on MSNBC’s “Ayman,” with Ayman Mohyeldin and Ali Velshi, that the federal government is taking over prosecution in the West Palm Beach case, with the U.S. Justice Department expected to file any charges.

He argued that a defendant wouldn’t have to open fire for the case to include a charge of attempted assassination.

Aronberg said it was his understanding that Routh was “lying in wait” for Trump before U.S. Secret Service agents spotted him. Routh had aimed at the agent who fired at him, Aronberg said; the exact chronology of what took place is still unclear.

Routh was “pretty quiet” and “pretty compliant” after a Martin County sheriff’s traffic unit took him into custody on Interstate 95 one county to the north of Palm Beach, Aronberg said.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ryan-routh-custody-trump-golf-club-incident-rcna171225

When Trump walks away alive from the Presidency in 2029, the news will have nothing to report

So strange Hannity says he was invited out to play golf, he says,"No thank you I'm not going to go out on the golf course and get killed out there"

Who talks like that about golfing?

Was that a slip?

Doesn't he wear a CIA pin?

Just something pretty strange with the language, see him looking down just before he says that?Check out his body language

If he was invited, he was at Mar A Lago reporting this, right?

https://x.com/CollinRugg/status/1835404860105343191

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I know that, but doesn't he have presence of mind not to use it today?

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Kekkity, the best

Trump plans to visit Springfield, Ohio, the site of his baseless claims about Haitian immigrants

The former president hasn't nailed down a date, but his campaign is actively planning a trip there.

(Man NBC hates him because they know its true)

The former president hasn't nailed down a date, but his campaign is actively planning a trip there.

Sept. 15, 2024, 2:23 PM EDT

Former President Donald Trump plans to visit Springfield, Ohio, "soon," a source familiar with the planning said.

The town has become the center of a national political fight on immigration, with Trump and his running mate, Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, spreading baseless conspiracy theories that Haitian immigrants in Springfield are eating dogs and other pets. (Wait, wait, wait, NBC repeated baseless conspiracy theories on Russia, Russia, Russia and still do this day!)

Though the unfounded claims have circulated online in right-wing circles for weeks, they went mainstream last week when Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris met for a debate in Philadelphia.

“In Springfield, they’re eating the dogs. The people that came in. They’re eating the cats. They’re eating — they’re eating the pets of the people that live there. And this is what’s happening in our country. And it’s a shame,” Trump said on the debate stage.

Trump ally Vivek Ramaswamy also announced on X that he will visit the town Thursday.

Officials in Springfield and elsewhere in Ohio have resoundingly condemned all allegations that immigrants in the city have been eating pets.

In a statement to NBC News on Monday ahead of the debate, the Springfield Police Division said that "there have been no credible reports or specific claims of pets being harmed, injured or abused by individuals within the immigrant community."

GOP Gov. Mike DeWine told ABC News on Sunday that there is no evidence that immigrants in Springfield have been eating pets and that the conspiracy theories were "garbage."

"The Haitians who are in Springfield are legal. They came to Springfield to work. Ohio is on the move, and Springfield has really made a great resurgence," DeWine said.

Since the debate, municipal buildings in the city have been the targets of bomb threats and immigrants in Springfield have reported feeling unsafe.

"We're in pain right now," Mayor Rob Rue said Friday on NBC News' "Meet the Press NOW," adding that if Trump decided to visit, "that could be difficult, a very difficult visit."

Asked what he'd say to Trump if he had the opportunity, Rue said: "We need help and not hate. And we need calm voices."

On Sunday, Vance disputed that his claims about the Haitian immigrants were unfounded, telling NBC News' "Meet the Press," “I hear you saying that they’re baseless, but I’m not repeating them because I invented them out of thin air.

“I’m repeating them because my constituents are saying these things are happening,"he said. "Clearly, these rumors are out there because constituents are seeing it with their own eyes.”

Later, in an interview with CNN, Vance echoed his remarks andblasted the "American media" for not paying attention to what he alleged was happening in Springfield.

"If I have to create stories so that the American media actually pays attention to the suffering of the American people, then that’s what I’m going to do,” Vance said.I doubt seriously he said that

Questioned about what he meant by "creat[ing] stories," Vance said, “I say that we’re creating a story, meaning we’re creating the American media focusing on it.” (?)

Asked whether she accepts that Trump and Vance's claims are untrue, Republican National Committee co-chairLara Trump, who is Trump's daughter-in-law, told Fox News: "It is not up to me to decide that. This information came directly from the people of Springfield. No one at our campaign — Donald Trump did not make this up himself."

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/trump-plans-visit-springfield-ohio-haitian-migrants-conspiracy-theory-rcna171190

Why is NBC not even curious if its true, did they go there and interview peopleThis is when you know they will never tell the truth to the people. How many years have NBC been lying to America?

Here we go again, Trump is responsible for almost being killed again. I hate these vampire lying creatures

https://www.mediaite.com/tv/msnbc-anchor-wonders-if-therell-be-calls-from-within-trump-camp-to-tone-down-his-rhetoric-after-second-assassination-attempt/