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‘Ticking time bomb’: Those who raised suspicions about Trump suspect question if enough was done

The Canadian Press | Canada's Trusted News Leader
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At least four reports to the U.S. government raised suspicions about Ryan Routh in the years leading up to his arrest.

Routh , 58 , is accused of stalking Donald Trump at the former president's golf course in West Palm Beach , Florida , in an apparent assassination attempt.

The agencies involved either did not respond to queries from The Associated Press , have no record of such a report.

Routh was interviewed by The New York Times and appeared in videos from Kyiv making his pitch for foreign fighters.

He put out a self-published book last year on Amazon , “ Ukraine’s Unwinnable War ,” in which he describes the wisdom of a well-timed killing of a world leader to change history.

Routh 's criminal history in his native Greensboro , North Carolina , includes a 2002 arrest for eluding a traffic stop and barricading himself from officers with a machine gun.