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Badlands Media News Brief: Would-be Trump assassin palled around with neoNazi Azov Brigade in Ukraine
Perhaps the most interesting angle to attempted Trump assassin Ryan Routh’s recent history in his Ukraine connection. We documented that when he went to Ukraine to recruit for its International Legion in 2022 he was a Western mainstream media darling for a time, having been quoted on behalf of the cause to get more foreign fighters thrown into the battle against Russia by a who’s who of major media sources from FT to Newsweek to the NY Times.
But when he arrived in Ukraine, according to these media reports, the 58-year old Routh himself was considered too old to fight alongside the Ukrainian army. “So plan B,” Routh described to one outlet, “was to come to Kiev and promote the idea of many others coming to join the International Legion. We need thousands of people here to fight alongside Ukrainians.”
“There are about 190 countries on our planet, and if the governments are not officially sending soldiers here, then we civilians should pick up this torch and make it happen,” he described. He had told Newsweek in a video interview from Ukraine that the war with Russia was as simple as “good vs. evil” and essentially the same as good guys and bad guys in the Hollywood movies Americans grew up with. It was not a gray conflict, he described, but “black and white”.
In March of 2022, just a month into the Russian invasion, he tweeted that everyone around the globe should be willing to volunteer and “fight and die” in Ukraine. Still, much of his time was reportedly spent in a hotel room in the far western city of Lviv.
Among the more bizarre aspects to his campaigning on behalf of the Ukrainian military’s foreign legion were his efforts to recruit US-trained Afghan special soldiers to go to Ukraine’s front lines. The initiative appeared so large in scale (given Routh was seeking to transfer hundreds, or even thousands, of Afghan fighters – according to his words) – that one commentator questions in light of the attempted assassination of Donald Trump: “Who was he working with in the US government that was allowing him to do this?” — ZeroHedge
Our Take: So not only was this loser trying to recruit “freedom fighters” from Afghanistan to go fight the Russians in Ukraine, but he was also hanging out with literal Nazis? He even appeared in one of their propaganda videos? Hah!
Should we add that the New York Times interviewed him last year for doing this? Why would the New York Times do that? Interview (glorify) a guy who hangs out with actual Nazis?
Does that story have anything to do with this story from 2022?
You think this guy was the CIA’s contact on the ground to go meet up with their ISIS goons and get them to Ukraine?
Here’s a completely separate story from last week.
But wait, it gets better. In the ZeroHedge article, the author quotes a source, who asks, “Who was he working with in the US government that was allowing him to do this?”
Here’s one guy from the Biden administration that we can prove was on the ground in Ukraine with Routh: Chef Jose Andres.
Back in 2022, two months before the ISIS story was reported, Chef Andres was appointed Co-Chair of the President’s Council on Sports, Fitness, & Nutrition, the White House announced Wednesday.
So why the hell was Chef Andres taking a picture with Routh in Kiev?
As hilarious as that sentence may be, it is a very serious question, which demands an answer. And let’s not discount the fact that Routh was vocally calling for Iran to kill Trump, and when that didn’t materialize, he apparently took matters into his own hands. Amazing. — GhostofBasedPatrickHenry
