Suspect in Trump assassination attempt faces two federal gun charges
by Jim Dolan
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Sep 16, 2024 #nyc #news #breakingnews
Jim Dolan has the latest on the Trump assassination attempt ahead of Nassau County rally this week.
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>> BILL, I'M GOING TO TAKE THIS
ONE. RYAN. WESLEY ROUTH NEVER
GOT A SHOT OFF, NOT AT FORMER
PRESIDENT TRUMP AND NOT AT THE
SECRET SERVICE. JUST MOMENTS
AGO, LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS
SAID THEY ARE SEARCHING THROUGH
ROUTH'S SOCIAL MEDIA SITES AND
HIS ELECTRONIC DEVICES TO FIND
OUT WHERE HE'S BEEN AND EXACTLY
WHY. HE HAD A HIGH POWERED RIFLE
WITH AN OBSCURED SERIAL NUMBER
AND A SCOPE. WHILE HE WAS
WAITING FOR DONALD TRUMP TO BE
WALKING. POLICE WERE TAKING NO
CHANCES AS THEY ARRESTED 58 YEAR
OLD WESLEY RYAN ROUTH YESTERDAY,
THE MAN POLICE SAY WAS LAYING IN
WAIT WITH THE POSSIBLE INTENTION
OF TRYING TO ASSASSINATE FORMER
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP.
>> THE SECURITY LEVEL AT
MAR-A-LAGO IS THE HIGHEST IT CAN
POSSIBLY BE NOW.
>> OFFICIALS HELD A NEWS
CONFERENCE JUST MOMENTS AGO AND
TOLD THE STORY OF HOW ROUTH WAS
DISCOVERED BEHIND A TREE LINE
RIGHT OFF THE TRUMP GOLF COURSE.
>> THE AGENT, WHO WAS VISUALLY
SWEEPING THE AREA OF THE SIXTH
GREEN, SAW THE SUBJECT ARMED
WITH WHAT HE PERCEIVED TO BE A
RIFLE AND IMMEDIATELY DISCHARGED
HIS FIREARM. THE SUBJECT, WHO
DID NOT HAVE LINE OF SIGHT TO
THE FORMER PRESIDENT, FLED THE
SCENE. HE DID NOT FIRE OR GET
OFF ANY SHOTS AT OUR AGENT.
>> BUT ROUTH WAS APPARENTLY
DETERMINED HE HAD BEEN THERE
WAITING.
>> CELLULAR DATA SHOWS THAT THE
SUBJECT WAS IN THE VICINITY OF
THE GOLF COURSE. ROUGHLY 12
HOURS BEFORE THE ENGAGEMENT WITH
THE UNITED STATES SECRET
SERVICE.
>> ROUTH HAS AN EXTENSIVE
CRIMINAL HISTORY, AND SOME OF IT
IS FRIGHTENING.
>> THE SUBJECT WAS CHARGED AND
CONVICTED IN NORTH CAROLINA FOR
POSSESSION OF A WEAPON OF MASS
DESTRUCTION.
>> ROUTH APPARENTLY HAD NO
ACCOMPLICES. HE IS CHARGED SO
FAR WITH ONLY TWO COUNTS,
INCLUDING POSSESSION OF THAT
RIFLE AS A CONVICTED FELON, BUT
MORE CHARGES ARE LIKELY AS THE
INVESTIGATION CONTINUES.
PRESIDENT BIDEN SAID TODAY THAT
THERE IS NO PLACE FOR VIOLENCE
IN POLITICS OR ANYWHERE IN
AMERICA. HE ALSO CALLED FOR MORE
RESOURCES FOR THE SECRET
SERVICE, THE SECRET SERVICE SAYS
THEY NEED THEM. TRUMP HAS CALLED
SEVERAL LOCAL AND
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Apparent assassination attempt. Suspect never had Trump in sight, did not get off shot: Secret Service chief says protection was textbook.
by David Brennan and Bill Hutchinson
ABCNews
Monday, September 16, 2024 9:25PM
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Ryan Wesley Routh, the suspect in the apparent assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump, never had the Republican presidential nominee in his sights and did not get off a single shot at the West Palm Beach golf course where he was allegedly lying in wait for nearly 12 hours, authorities said Monday.
Secret Service Acting Director Ron Roe said at a news conference Tuesday afternoon that one of their agents was hundreds of yards ahead of Trump on Sunday when he spotted a gun barrel poking out from the tree line near the sixth green of Trump International Golf Club and opened fire on the suspect around 1:31 p.m ET.
"He did not fire or get off any shots at our agent," Roe said of the suspect.
Ryan Wesley Routh, the suspect in the apparent assassination attempt of Donald Trump, has had his first appearance in federal court.
Roe also said that at no time was the former president in the sight line of the suspect.
Asked by ABC News if the Secret Service was able to do a complete security sweep of the golf course before Trump played a round of golf there on Sunday, Roe said the former president's movement was considered "off the record," meaning it wasn't on his public calendar that he'd be at the Trump International Golf Club on Sunday.
"At this time, it was an off-the-record movement, meaning it was not on the former president's official schedule," Rowe told ABC's Rachel Scott.
However, Roe said all of the protections, which were enhanced after a July 13 assassination attempt on Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, were in place, including counter snipers and aerial surveillance.
According to the criminal complaint filed in the case, Routh's cellphone data tracked him near the tree line of the Trump International Golf Club as early as 1:59 a.m. ET on Sunday.
As Trump was playing a round of golf that afternoon, a Secret Service special agent walking the perimeter of the golf course spotted what appeared to be a rifle poking out of the tree line. The agent then fired in the direction of the rifle and saw Routh fleeing the area and entering his Nissan vehicle, according to the complaint.
Photo of Routh following his detention by authorities in Florida. Martin County Sheriff's Office
The latest details of the incident emerged as Routh appeared in West Palm Beach federal court on Monday morning. Prosecutors said he is charged with possession of a firearm as a convicted felon and possession of a firearm with an obliterated serial number.
Routh did not enter a plea to the charges, and was ordered to return to court on Sept. 23 for a pre-detention hearing. His arraignment has been scheduled for Sept. 30. Routh entered the courtroom wearing a T-shirt. He was seen smiling and nodding as he spoke to federal public defender Kristy R. Militello, who has been assigned to represent him.
When a judge asked Routh a series of questions to determine if he qualified for a public defender, Roth said he earns a monthly income of around $3,000, owns two trucks in Hawaii that are worth approximately $1,000 each, owns no real estate and has "zero" savings. He also informed the court that he has a 25-year-old son.
Trump thanks Secret Service
In the area of the tree line where the suspect was seen, agents found a digital camera, two bags, including a backpack, and a loaded SKS-style 7.62x39 caliber rifle with a scope, according to the complaint. The serial number on the rifle "was obliterated and unreadable to the naked eye," the complaint states.
Palm Beach County Sheriff Ric Bradshaw initially described the weapon found in the tree line as an AK-47-style rifle.
Agents also found a black bag in the tree line containing food, according to the complaint.
Trump was not harmed in the incident and was taken to a safe location by Secret Service agents.
It was unclear if the suspect fired a shot in the incident or was aiming his gun at Trump when he was spotted.
Officials said Routh could face up to 15 years in prison if convicted on the first charge, and a possible five-year sentence on the second charge.
Following the first assassination attempt on Trump on July 13, the Secret Service conducted security assessments of Trump's golf courses and implemented measures to bolster security, sources familiar with the matter told ABC News. At the time, the Secret Service deemed the former president's golf course in Jupiter, Florida, a residential course with houses around it, unsafe for him to play on.
The Secret Service deemed the Jupiter course much harder to manage from a security perspective than the Trump International course in West Palm Beach, the sources said.
As part of the assessment, the Secret Service implemented other security measures, including the use of bulletproof glass surrounding Trump at outdoor rallies, which ABC was first to report on.
Suspect appears in court
The latest details of the incident emerged as Routh appeared in West Palm Beach federal court on Monday morning. Prosecutors said he is charged with possession of a firearm as a convicted felon and possession of a firearm with an obliterated serial number.
Routh did not enter a plea to the charges, and was ordered to return to court on Sept. 23 for a pre-detention hearing. His arraignment has been scheduled for Sept. 30. Routh entered the courtroom wearing a T-shirt. He was seen smiling and nodding as he spoke to federal public defender Kristy R. Militello, who has been assigned to represent him.
When a judge asked Routh a series of questions to determine if he qualified for a public defender, Roth said he earns a monthly income of around $3,000, owns two trucks in Hawaii that are worth approximately $1,000 each, owns no real estate and has "zero" savings. He also informed the court that he has a 25-year-old son.
"The FBI is continuing to investigate what appears to be an assassination attempt of former President Trump that occurred yesterday in Florida. We are grateful that the former President is safe," Attorney General Merrick Garland said in a statement Monday. "The entire Justice Department -- including the FBI, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Florida, and the National Security Division -- is coordinating closely with our law enforcement partners on the ground. We will work tirelessly to ensure accountability, and we will bring every available resource to bear in this investigation."
Trump thanks Secret Service
"I would like to thank everyone for your concern and well wishes - It was certainly an interesting day!" Trump said in a post on Truth Social.
"Most importantly, I want to thank the U.S. Secret Service, Sheriff Ric Bradshaw and his Office of brave and dedicated Patriots, and, all of Law Enforcement, for the incredible job done today at Trump International in keeping me, as the 45th President of the United States, and the Republican Nominee in the upcoming Presidential Election, SAFE."
"THE JOB DONE WAS ABSOLUTELY OUTSTANDING. I AM VERY PROUD TO BE AN AMERICAN!" he wrote.
The former president is expected to meet Monday with the acting director of the Secret Service, Ronald Rowe Jr., sources familiar with the matter told ABC News.
Following the July 13 assassination attempt on Trump at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, Trump, who was shot in the ear, also met with the former director, Kimberly Cheatle, at the time for a briefing.
Trump playing golf when gunman spotted
On Sunday afternoon, Secret Service agents accompanying Trump fired at a man armed with an AK-47-style rifle on or near the Trump International golf course on Sunday.
The FBI is investigating Sunday's incident as an "attempted assassination." Palm Beach County Sheriff Ric Bradshaw said at a news conference Sunday afternoon that the gunman was within 300 to 500 yards of Trump when he was spotted.
Secret Service agents fired four to six rounds at him before he dropped his weapon and fled the scene in a vehicle. Witnesses reported the license plate number to authorities, and the suspect was stopped and detained.
It was not clear if the suspect was aiming his gun at the former president. Agents fired at the suspect after spotting his rifle through the fence line, multiple sources told ABC News.
Sources said three shell casings believed to be associated with the suspect's AK-47 were found on the scene, though investigators are still evaluating whether the suspect fired his weapon. The rifle and two backpacks containing a GoPro camera and ceramic tiles were recovered from the scene, Bradshaw said.
It was not clear if the suspect was aiming his gun at the former president. Agents fired at the suspect after spotting his rifle through the fence line, multiple sources told ABC News.
Sources said three shell casings believed to be associated with the suspect's AK-47 were found on the scene, though investigators are still evaluating whether the suspect fired his weapon. The rifle and two backpacks containing a GoPro camera and ceramic tiles were recovered from the scene, Bradshaw said.
It was not clear if the suspect was aiming his gun at the former president. Agents fired at the suspect after spotting his rifle through the fence line, multiple sources told ABC News.
Sources said three shell casings believed to be associated with the suspect's AK-47 were found on the scene, though investigators are still evaluating whether the suspect fired his weapon. The rifle and two backpacks containing a GoPro camera and ceramic tiles were recovered from the scene, Bradshaw said.
Authorities are now probing Routh's background. The detainee is believed to have ties to North Carolina and Hawaii, sources said. Sources told ABC News that the FBI is conducting an extensive investigation into Routh's social media activity, travel and any criminal record. Friends, family and associates are also being sought for interviews.
Suspect's family grilled
The suspect's family is telling investigators that while Routh had no diagnosed mental illness, he "fixated" on things, multiple sources briefed on the investigation told ABC News.
An avenue of investigation is whether Routh became fixated on Trump over the former president's stance on Ukraine. Routh appears to have made recent social media posts critical of Trump and used social media to document his travel to Ukraine.
According to the sources, Trump was getting ready to putt on the fifth hole when a Secret Service agent called out "gun!" Agents immediately surrounded Trump and took him to a predetermined secure location at the property. USSS often has these safe areas designated in advance.
Sources familiar with the investigation said authorities are looking into whether Routh had grievances related to Trump's position on Ukraine.
Authorities are expected to file more charges relating to the incident in the coming days, sources told ABC News.
Suspect's criminal history
Routh has an extensive rap sheet in North Carolina dating back to 1997, including an incident from 2002 during which he reportedly barricaded himself inside a business while armed with an assault weapon, according to police and court records.
According to the Greensboro News & Record, in December 2002, Routh fled a traffic stop and barricaded himself inside a local roofing business for three hours until police arrested him.
Routh pleaded guilty to a felony count of possessing a weapon of mass destruction and a misdemeanor count of carrying a concealed weapon, court records show. State incarceration records show he was sentenced to probation for this incident. Court records also indicate he still owes a $225 assessment related to the felony charge of possession of a weapon of mass destruction.
He also pleaded guilty in 2003 to stealing a state-issued identification card and, in 2010, pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor theft charge. Routh was also repeatedly sued by construction contractors for attempting to write checks with insufficient funds.
Routh has several traffic citations, including speeding, running red lights, failing to wear a seat belt, driving while his license was revoked and driving with a broken windshield, among others.
Biden and Harris condemn apparent assassination
President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris both condemned the apparent assassination effort.
While speaking at National Historically Black Colleges and Universities Week Conference in Philadelphia, Biden addressed the apparent assassination attempt on Trump.
"Let me just say, there is no -- and I mean this from the bottom of my heart, those of you how know me and many of you do - no place for political violence in America. Zero. Never," Biden said. "I've always condemned political violence and I always. In America, we resolve our differences peacefully at the ballot box not at the end of a gun."
Biden added, "America has suffered too many times the tragedy of an assassin's bullet. It solves nothing. It just tears apart. We must do everything we can to prevent it and never give it any oxygen."
President Joe Biden condemned the latest apparent assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump, while also commending the quick actions of the U.S. Secret Service.
Harris said in a statement that she was "thankful" that Trump was safe and "deeply disturbed by the possible assassination attempt."
"As we gather the facts, I will be clear: I condemn political violence. We all must do our part to ensure that this incident does not lead to more violence," Harris said.
On Monday morning, Biden said he believes the Secret Service needs more help and called on Congress to act following the second apparent attempted assassination attempt on Donald Trump in nine weeks.
"Thank God the president is OK," Biden said before boarding Marine One to depart the White House. "One thing I want to make clear: The service needs more help. And I think the Congress should respond to their needs if they, in fact, need more servicemen, and so that's what we're going to be talking about."
Asked what kind of help he thought the Secret Service needs, Biden said, "They're deciding whether they need more personnel or not."
ABC News' Lalee Ibassa, Katherine Faulders, Aaron Katersky, Soo Rin Kim, Michelle Stoddart, Pierre Thomas, Rachel Scott, Jack Date, Leah Sarnoff, Kelsey Walsh and Luke Barr contributed to this report.
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Investigators are combing through Ryan's lengthy criminal record and obsession and frustration with the war in Ukraine. Ukrainian officials say Routh tried to join the military, but was rejected after he failed a psychological check. ABC News spotted Routh at a protest in Kyiv in 2022. He also did several emotional interviews describing the war as a battle between good and evil.
Investigators are also interested in a series of posts that were critical of Trump, Routh writing on social media in 2020 that he supported Trump in 2016, but was disappointed with his years in office saying, "I will be glad when you are gone."
In even more caustic language, a self-published book that appears to be written by Routh, he makes a threat against Trump.
Routh was charged today with possession of an assault rifle with an obliterated serial number, and with illegal possession of a gun, because he's a convicted felon. Trump has blamed what unfolded yesterday on a polarized political environment, claiming again tonight that there's a lot of rhetoric from Democrats.
by David Brennan and Bill Hutchinson
ABCNews
Monday, September 16, 2024 9:25PM
Eyewitness News hosted New York City Schools Chancellor David Banks at a Back to School Town Hall.
Ryan Wesley Routh, the suspect in the apparent assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump, never had the Republican presidential nominee in his sights and did not get off a single shot at the West Palm Beach golf course where he was allegedly lying in wait for nearly 12 hours, authorities said Monday.
Secret Service Acting Director Ron Roe said at a news conference Tuesday afternoon that one of their agents was hundreds of yards ahead of Trump on Sunday when he spotted a gun barrel poking out from the tree line near the sixth green of Trump International Golf Club and opened fire on the suspect around 1:31 p.m ET.
"He did not fire or get off any shots at our agent," Roe said of the suspect.
Ryan Wesley Routh, the suspect in the apparent assassination attempt of Donald Trump, has had his first appearance in federal court.
Roe also said that at no time was the former president in the sight line of the suspect.
Asked by ABC News if the Secret Service was able to do a complete security sweep of the golf course before Trump played a round of golf there on Sunday, Roe said the former president's movement was considered "off the record," meaning it wasn't on his public calendar that he'd be at the Trump International Golf Club on Sunday.
"At this time, it was an off-the-record movement, meaning it was not on the former president's official schedule," Rowe told ABC's Rachel Scott.
However, Roe said all of the protections, which were enhanced after a July 13 assassination attempt on Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, were in place, including counter snipers and aerial surveillance.
According to the criminal complaint filed in the case, Routh's cellphone data tracked him near the tree line of the Trump International Golf Club as early as 1:59 a.m. ET on Sunday.
As Trump was playing a round of golf that afternoon, a Secret Service special agent walking the perimeter of the golf course spotted what appeared to be a rifle poking out of the tree line. The agent then fired in the direction of the rifle and saw Routh fleeing the area and entering his Nissan vehicle, according to the complaint.
Photo of Routh following his detention by authorities in Florida. Martin County Sheriff's Office
The latest details of the incident emerged as Routh appeared in West Palm Beach federal court on Monday morning. Prosecutors said he is charged with possession of a firearm as a convicted felon and possession of a firearm with an obliterated serial number.
Routh did not enter a plea to the charges, and was ordered to return to court on Sept. 23 for a pre-detention hearing. His arraignment has been scheduled for Sept. 30. Routh entered the courtroom wearing a T-shirt. He was seen smiling and nodding as he spoke to federal public defender Kristy R. Militello, who has been assigned to represent him.
When a judge asked Routh a series of questions to determine if he qualified for a public defender, Roth said he earns a monthly income of around $3,000, owns two trucks in Hawaii that are worth approximately $1,000 each, owns no real estate and has "zero" savings. He also informed the court that he has a 25-year-old son.
Trump thanks Secret Service
In the area of the tree line where the suspect was seen, agents found a digital camera, two bags, including a backpack, and a loaded SKS-style 7.62x39 caliber rifle with a scope, according to the complaint. The serial number on the rifle "was obliterated and unreadable to the naked eye," the complaint states.
Palm Beach County Sheriff Ric Bradshaw initially described the weapon found in the tree line as an AK-47-style rifle.
Agents also found a black bag in the tree line containing food, according to the complaint.
Trump was not harmed in the incident and was taken to a safe location by Secret Service agents.
It was unclear if the suspect fired a shot in the incident or was aiming his gun at Trump when he was spotted.
Officials said Routh could face up to 15 years in prison if convicted on the first charge, and a possible five-year sentence on the second charge.
Following the first assassination attempt on Trump on July 13, the Secret Service conducted security assessments of Trump's golf courses and implemented measures to bolster security, sources familiar with the matter told ABC News. At the time, the Secret Service deemed the former president's golf course in Jupiter, Florida, a residential course with houses around it, unsafe for him to play on.
The Secret Service deemed the Jupiter course much harder to manage from a security perspective than the Trump International course in West Palm Beach, the sources said.
As part of the assessment, the Secret Service implemented other security measures, including the use of bulletproof glass surrounding Trump at outdoor rallies, which ABC was first to report on.
Suspect appears in court
The latest details of the incident emerged as Routh appeared in West Palm Beach federal court on Monday morning. Prosecutors said he is charged with possession of a firearm as a convicted felon and possession of a firearm with an obliterated serial number.
Routh did not enter a plea to the charges, and was ordered to return to court on Sept. 23 for a pre-detention hearing. His arraignment has been scheduled for Sept. 30. Routh entered the courtroom wearing a T-shirt. He was seen smiling and nodding as he spoke to federal public defender Kristy R. Militello, who has been assigned to represent him.
When a judge asked Routh a series of questions to determine if he qualified for a public defender, Roth said he earns a monthly income of around $3,000, owns two trucks in Hawaii that are worth approximately $1,000 each, owns no real estate and has "zero" savings. He also informed the court that he has a 25-year-old son.
"The FBI is continuing to investigate what appears to be an assassination attempt of former President Trump that occurred yesterday in Florida. We are grateful that the former President is safe," Attorney General Merrick Garland said in a statement Monday. "The entire Justice Department -- including the FBI, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Florida, and the National Security Division -- is coordinating closely with our law enforcement partners on the ground. We will work tirelessly to ensure accountability, and we will bring every available resource to bear in this investigation."
Trump thanks Secret Service
"I would like to thank everyone for your concern and well wishes - It was certainly an interesting day!" Trump said in a post on Truth Social.
"Most importantly, I want to thank the U.S. Secret Service, Sheriff Ric Bradshaw and his Office of brave and dedicated Patriots, and, all of Law Enforcement, for the incredible job done today at Trump International in keeping me, as the 45th President of the United States, and the Republican Nominee in the upcoming Presidential Election, SAFE."
"THE JOB DONE WAS ABSOLUTELY OUTSTANDING. I AM VERY PROUD TO BE AN AMERICAN!" he wrote.
The former president is expected to meet Monday with the acting director of the Secret Service, Ronald Rowe Jr., sources familiar with the matter told ABC News.
Following the July 13 assassination attempt on Trump at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, Trump, who was shot in the ear, also met with the former director, Kimberly Cheatle, at the time for a briefing.
Trump playing golf when gunman spotted
On Sunday afternoon, Secret Service agents accompanying Trump fired at a man armed with an AK-47-style rifle on or near the Trump International golf course on Sunday.
The FBI is investigating Sunday's incident as an "attempted assassination." Palm Beach County Sheriff Ric Bradshaw said at a news conference Sunday afternoon that the gunman was within 300 to 500 yards of Trump when he was spotted.
Secret Service agents fired four to six rounds at him before he dropped his weapon and fled the scene in a vehicle. Witnesses reported the license plate number to authorities, and the suspect was stopped and detained.
It was not clear if the suspect was aiming his gun at the former president. Agents fired at the suspect after spotting his rifle through the fence line, multiple sources told ABC News.
Sources said three shell casings believed to be associated with the suspect's AK-47 were found on the scene, though investigators are still evaluating whether the suspect fired his weapon. The rifle and two backpacks containing a GoPro camera and ceramic tiles were recovered from the scene, Bradshaw said.
It was not clear if the suspect was aiming his gun at the former president. Agents fired at the suspect after spotting his rifle through the fence line, multiple sources told ABC News.
Sources said three shell casings believed to be associated with the suspect's AK-47 were found on the scene, though investigators are still evaluating whether the suspect fired his weapon. The rifle and two backpacks containing a GoPro camera and ceramic tiles were recovered from the scene, Bradshaw said.
It was not clear if the suspect was aiming his gun at the former president. Agents fired at the suspect after spotting his rifle through the fence line, multiple sources told ABC News.
Sources said three shell casings believed to be associated with the suspect's AK-47 were found on the scene, though investigators are still evaluating whether the suspect fired his weapon. The rifle and two backpacks containing a GoPro camera and ceramic tiles were recovered from the scene, Bradshaw said.
Authorities are now probing Routh's background. The detainee is believed to have ties to North Carolina and Hawaii, sources said. Sources told ABC News that the FBI is conducting an extensive investigation into Routh's social media activity, travel and any criminal record. Friends, family and associates are also being sought for interviews.
Suspect's family grilled
The suspect's family is telling investigators that while Routh had no diagnosed mental illness, he "fixated" on things, multiple sources briefed on the investigation told ABC News.
An avenue of investigation is whether Routh became fixated on Trump over the former president's stance on Ukraine. Routh appears to have made recent social media posts critical of Trump and used social media to document his travel to Ukraine.
According to the sources, Trump was getting ready to putt on the fifth hole when a Secret Service agent called out "gun!" Agents immediately surrounded Trump and took him to a predetermined secure location at the property. USSS often has these safe areas designated in advance.
Sources familiar with the investigation said authorities are looking into whether Routh had grievances related to Trump's position on Ukraine.
Authorities are expected to file more charges relating to the incident in the coming days, sources told ABC News.
Suspect's criminal history
Routh has an extensive rap sheet in North Carolina dating back to 1997, including an incident from 2002 during which he reportedly barricaded himself inside a business while armed with an assault weapon, according to police and court records.
According to the Greensboro News & Record, in December 2002, Routh fled a traffic stop and barricaded himself inside a local roofing business for three hours until police arrested him.
Routh pleaded guilty to a felony count of possessing a weapon of mass destruction and a misdemeanor count of carrying a concealed weapon, court records show. State incarceration records show he was sentenced to probation for this incident. Court records also indicate he still owes a $225 assessment related to the felony charge of possession of a weapon of mass destruction.
He also pleaded guilty in 2003 to stealing a state-issued identification card and, in 2010, pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor theft charge. Routh was also repeatedly sued by construction contractors for attempting to write checks with insufficient funds.
Routh has several traffic citations, including speeding, running red lights, failing to wear a seat belt, driving while his license was revoked and driving with a broken windshield, among others.
Biden and Harris condemn apparent assassination
President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris both condemned the apparent assassination effort.
While speaking at National Historically Black Colleges and Universities Week Conference in Philadelphia, Biden addressed the apparent assassination attempt on Trump.
"Let me just say, there is no -- and I mean this from the bottom of my heart, those of you how know me and many of you do - no place for political violence in America. Zero. Never," Biden said. "I've always condemned political violence and I always. In America, we resolve our differences peacefully at the ballot box not at the end of a gun."
Biden added, "America has suffered too many times the tragedy of an assassin's bullet. It solves nothing. It just tears apart. We must do everything we can to prevent it and never give it any oxygen."
President Joe Biden condemned the latest apparent assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump, while also commending the quick actions of the U.S. Secret Service.
Harris said in a statement that she was "thankful" that Trump was safe and "deeply disturbed by the possible assassination attempt."
"As we gather the facts, I will be clear: I condemn political violence. We all must do our part to ensure that this incident does not lead to more violence," Harris said.
On Monday morning, Biden said he believes the Secret Service needs more help and called on Congress to act following the second apparent attempted assassination attempt on Donald Trump in nine weeks.
"Thank God the president is OK," Biden said before boarding Marine One to depart the White House. "One thing I want to make clear: The service needs more help. And I think the Congress should respond to their needs if they, in fact, need more servicemen, and so that's what we're going to be talking about."
Asked what kind of help he thought the Secret Service needs, Biden said, "They're deciding whether they need more personnel or not."
ABC News' Lalee Ibassa, Katherine Faulders, Aaron Katersky, Soo Rin Kim, Michelle Stoddart, Pierre Thomas, Rachel Scott, Jack Date, Leah Sarnoff, Kelsey Walsh and Luke Barr contributed to this report.
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Investigators are combing through Ryan's lengthy criminal record and obsession and frustration with the war in Ukraine. Ukrainian officials say Routh tried to join the military, but was rejected after he failed a psychological check. ABC News spotted Routh at a protest in Kyiv in 2022. He also did several emotional interviews describing the war as a battle between good and evil.
[Routh] You know, when you talk to a 20-year old guy that sold everything he owns to come here to fight, that is heroism.
Investigators are also interested in a series of posts that were critical of Trump, Routh writing on social media in 2020 that he supported Trump in 2016, but was disappointed with his years in office saying, "I will be glad when you are gone."
In even more caustic language, a self-published book that appears to be written by Routh, he makes a threat against Trump.
Routh was charged today with possession of an assault rifle with an obliterated serial number, and with illegal possession of a gun, because he's a convicted felon. Trump has blamed what unfolded yesterday on a polarized political environment, claiming again tonight that there's a lot of rhetoric from Democrats.
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Ryan Routh Encouraged Assassination of Trump In Book on Ukraine
by Hugh Cameron
Newsweek
Published Sep 16, 2024 at 11:06 AM EDT
Updated Sep 16, 2024 at 11:07 AM EDT
Ryan Wesley Routh, the suspect in the attempted assassination of Donald Trump, previously appeared to encourage the killing of the former president, it has emerged.
In a book published in 2023 about the way in Ukraine, Routh claimed that readers were "free to assassinate Trump".
"No one here in the US seems to have the balls to put natural selection to work or even unnatural selection," he wrote.
Following the second attempted assassination of Trump in just 64 days, 58-year-old Routh is now in custody after a Secret Service agent from Trump's protective detail saw him holding a rifle behind a chain-link fence at the Trump International Golf Course in West Palm Beach, Florida, on Sunday.
Authorities and media outlets have since been working to determine Routh's motives for targeting the Republican nominee and former president.
In his book, titled "Ukraine's Unwinnable War," Routh outlined his experiences in Ukraine and gave his opinions on the conflict, America foreign policy, and the U.S. political leadership.
This screengrab taken from AFPTV on September 16, 2024 shows Ryan Wesley Routh speaking during an interview at a rally to urge foreign leaders and international organizations to help provide humanitarian corridors for the evacuation... More AFPTV/AFP via Getty Images
The book itself is filled with mentions of the former president, whom Routh calls "a fool" and "a buffoon."
In one section toward the end of the 291-page work, Routh discusses Iran, and lamented the end of the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, commonly known as the Iran deal. The deal, spearheaded by Secretary of State John Kerry, sought to restrict Iran's uranium enrichment capabilities in return for the easing of American, European, and United Nations sanctions.
"I would like to celebrate the amazing work of John Kerry that very humbly and humanly handled the Iran deal which elated me and the whole of the world."
In May 2018, however, the U.S. withdrew from the pact, which Trump had called "disastrous" and said could lead to a "nuclear holocaust."
Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump arrives at Harry Reid International Airport to board a plane after a campaign trip, Saturday, Sept.14, 2024, in Las Vegas. Ryan Wesley Routh has been arrested under suspicion... More Alex Brandon/AP Photo
"I must take part of the blame for the retarded child that we elected for our next president that ended up being brainless," Routh wrote. "But I am man enough to say that I misjudged and made a terrible mistake and Iran I apologize."
"You are free to assassinate Trump as well as me for that error in judgment and the dismantling of the deal. No one here in the US seems to have the balls to put natural selection to work or even unnatural selection."
The book was edited by Kathleen Shaffer, who, according to the Washington Post, lived with Routh and was reportedly his fiancée, as stated in a now-deleted 2022 GoFundMe post urging people to pledge money to support Routh's activities in Ukraine.
Ryan Wesley Routh's book, published in February 2023. The 291-page manifesto describes Routh's experiences as a volunteer in Ukraine, as well as his opinions on U.S. foreign policy.
Remus Cernea, a Romanian activist and war correspondent, interviewed Routh in June 2022, and told Newsweek that Routh was then working as a recruiter for The International Legion for the Defense of Ukraine, a unit of the Ukrainian Army composed of foreign volunteers.
Cernea told Newsweek that Routh had become more disappointed with the direction of the conflict when they last met in August 2023, and upset by what he saw as insufficient aid being sent to Ukraine.
Remarking on his potential motives, Cernea said: "Maybe he thought that Trump is not a friend of Ukraine. Maybe if Trump wins, [he thought] the aid for Ukraine would stop."
by Hugh Cameron
Newsweek
Published Sep 16, 2024 at 11:06 AM EDT
Updated Sep 16, 2024 at 11:07 AM EDT
Ryan Wesley Routh, the suspect in the attempted assassination of Donald Trump, previously appeared to encourage the killing of the former president, it has emerged.
In a book published in 2023 about the way in Ukraine, Routh claimed that readers were "free to assassinate Trump".
"No one here in the US seems to have the balls to put natural selection to work or even unnatural selection," he wrote.
Following the second attempted assassination of Trump in just 64 days, 58-year-old Routh is now in custody after a Secret Service agent from Trump's protective detail saw him holding a rifle behind a chain-link fence at the Trump International Golf Course in West Palm Beach, Florida, on Sunday.
Authorities and media outlets have since been working to determine Routh's motives for targeting the Republican nominee and former president.
In his book, titled "Ukraine's Unwinnable War," Routh outlined his experiences in Ukraine and gave his opinions on the conflict, America foreign policy, and the U.S. political leadership.
This screengrab taken from AFPTV on September 16, 2024 shows Ryan Wesley Routh speaking during an interview at a rally to urge foreign leaders and international organizations to help provide humanitarian corridors for the evacuation... More AFPTV/AFP via Getty Images
The book itself is filled with mentions of the former president, whom Routh calls "a fool" and "a buffoon."
In one section toward the end of the 291-page work, Routh discusses Iran, and lamented the end of the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, commonly known as the Iran deal. The deal, spearheaded by Secretary of State John Kerry, sought to restrict Iran's uranium enrichment capabilities in return for the easing of American, European, and United Nations sanctions.
"I would like to celebrate the amazing work of John Kerry that very humbly and humanly handled the Iran deal which elated me and the whole of the world."
In May 2018, however, the U.S. withdrew from the pact, which Trump had called "disastrous" and said could lead to a "nuclear holocaust."
Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump arrives at Harry Reid International Airport to board a plane after a campaign trip, Saturday, Sept.14, 2024, in Las Vegas. Ryan Wesley Routh has been arrested under suspicion... More Alex Brandon/AP Photo
"I must take part of the blame for the retarded child that we elected for our next president that ended up being brainless," Routh wrote. "But I am man enough to say that I misjudged and made a terrible mistake and Iran I apologize."
"You are free to assassinate Trump as well as me for that error in judgment and the dismantling of the deal. No one here in the US seems to have the balls to put natural selection to work or even unnatural selection."
The book was edited by Kathleen Shaffer, who, according to the Washington Post, lived with Routh and was reportedly his fiancée, as stated in a now-deleted 2022 GoFundMe post urging people to pledge money to support Routh's activities in Ukraine.
Ryan Wesley Routh's book, published in February 2023. The 291-page manifesto describes Routh's experiences as a volunteer in Ukraine, as well as his opinions on U.S. foreign policy.
Remus Cernea, a Romanian activist and war correspondent, interviewed Routh in June 2022, and told Newsweek that Routh was then working as a recruiter for The International Legion for the Defense of Ukraine, a unit of the Ukrainian Army composed of foreign volunteers.
Cernea told Newsweek that Routh had become more disappointed with the direction of the conflict when they last met in August 2023, and upset by what he saw as insufficient aid being sent to Ukraine.
Remarking on his potential motives, Cernea said: "Maybe he thought that Trump is not a friend of Ukraine. Maybe if Trump wins, [he thought] the aid for Ukraine would stop."
Some of Ukraine's best-known volunteer fighting units were quick to distance themselves from Routh, releasing statements denying any connection to him.
"Routh has never served in the International Legion of the Main Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine. He has no relation to the unit," the International Legion, an officially sanctioned unit made up of foreign volunteers, said in a Telegram post. "Rumors circulating in certain media are not true."
-- 'The Recruiter Guy With An American Flag Around His Neck': Who Is The Man Accused In Apparent Trump Assassination Attempt?
by Aleksander Palikot and Mike Eckel, RadioFreeEurope RadioLiberty
The International Legion Defence of Ukraine, or the Ukrainian Foreign Legion, is a military unit of the Ukrainian Ground Forces of composed of foreign volunteers. It was created on 27 February 2022 by the Ukrainian government at the request of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to fight against the Russian invasion of the country. It was originally part of the Territorial Defense Forces, under the name of International Legion of Territorial Defence of Ukraine, eventually transitioning to the command of the Ukrainian Ground Forces at some point in its existence.
On 27 February 2022 (three days after the invasion began), under the order by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the unit was created to join the defence against the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. Its formation was announced in a statement by the Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba. Kuleba promoted the unit on Twitter, inviting individuals to apply and stating that "together we defeated Hitler, and we will defeat Putin too." On 7 March, the Ukrainian Armed Forces released the first image of International Legion soldiers in trenches on the outskirts of Kyiv and announced that new groups were being deployed to the front each day.
Foreign volunteers had come to Ukraine much earlier, in 2014, to join the fight against the pro-Russian separatists as members of Ukrainian volunteer battalions that have been created after the start of the War in the Donbas. Most foreign fighters arrived throughout the summer of 2014, and on 6 October 2014 the Ukrainian parliament voted to allow foreigners to join the Ukrainian military.
While these units have officially been integrated into the Ukrainian Armed Forces, some units such as the Georgian Legion still exercise some autonomy. Prior to the formation of the International Legion, the Georgian Legion was used to train English-speaking foreign volunteers. Kacper Rękawek, a researcher on foreign fighters in Ukraine, believes the majority of Western fighters prior to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine passed through the Georgian Legion.
Other foreign volunteer battalions in the Ukrainian military included the Dzhokhar Dudayev Battalion and Sheikh Mansur Battalion—both formed by anti-Russian and anti-Ramzan Kadyrov Chechens, and the Tactical Group "Belarus" (formed by anti-Lukashenko Belarusians).
While Rękawek said that some foreign fighters that traveled to Ukraine in 2014 held extremist political beliefs and supported the Azov Battalion or the Russian separatist forces in Donbas, the foreign fighters travelling to Ukraine in early 2022 "don't appear to be motivated, as a group, by a certain set of ideological tropes". He also said the mobilization of foreign fighters in 2022 is much larger than the mobilization in 2014. According to Rękawek, the formation of the International Legion was "an attempt to internationalize the conflict via mobilization of Western individuals for the Ukrainian cause. This development would also assist in embarrassing the Western governments, who in the eyes of many Ukrainians are not doing enough to support Kyiv."
-- International Legion (Ukraine), by Wikipedia
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by Aleksander Palikot and Mike Eckel
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Ryan Wesley Routh takes part in a rally in Kyiv in April 2022.
KYIV -- In the early months after Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Ryan Wesley Routh was a frequent and visible presence in Kyiv, reaching out to pedestrians on the city's famed Khreschatyk Street, addressing people in English, exchanging phone numbers, and asking for help in supporting Ukraine's armed forces.
He was seen by volunteers coming to Kyiv as a kind of mascot for Ukraine's military, said Christian Lutz, a German man who runs an aid organization called Phoenix and met Routh several times in 2022.
"‘The recruiter guy with an American flag around his neck'-- It's how everybody referred to him," Lutz told RFE/RL. "He seemed to be a lone wolf. He didn't have colleagues or friends with him."
Fast forward two years: Routh, 58, is now a suspect in an alleged assassination attempt against former U.S. President Donald Trump. Routh was detained by police in Florida on September 15 after Secret Service agents spotted him allegedly pointing a rifle at Trump as the Republican presidential candidate golfed at a West Palm Beach club.
Routh was arrested after fleeing the scene, and agents recovered an "AK-47-style" rifle with a scope, along with two backpacks and a GoPro camera from the scene, Palm Beach County Sheriff Ric Bradshaw told reporters.
While no evidence has yet to appear linking Routh's efforts in Ukraine to the incident in Florida, his arrest has stunned people who crossed paths with him in Ukraine and encountered his sometimes shambolic but apparently sincere efforts to help Ukraine in its defense against Russia's invasion.
"What the f*** is going on? This cannot be true," Lutz said when he heard the news about Routh's arrest.
Some of Ukraine's best-known volunteer fighting units were quick to distance themselves from Routh, releasing statements denying any connection to him.
"Routh has never served in the International Legion of the Main Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine. He has no relation to the unit," the International Legion, an officially sanctioned unit made up of foreign volunteers, said in a Telegram post. "Rumors circulating in certain media are not true."
In April 2022, Routh appeared at a rally in Kyiv in support of the Azov Battalion -- a controversial military unit revered by many in Ukraine for its fighting prowess.
In the preceding months, after weeks of holding out in the port city of Mariupol against a withering Russian siege, battalion members had finally surrendered, and many had been taken prisoner by Russia. Family members waged a public relations campaign, and staged rallies, to try and press for their relatives' release.
According to an Associated Press video of the event, Routh was seen wearing a blue vest with a U.S. flag on its back and holding a placard that read: "We cannot tolerate corruption and evil for another 50+ years. End Russia for our kids."
Routh also appeared in a video published in May 2022 by a Twitter account run by the relatives of Azov members.
"We would like to officially state that Ryan Wesley Routh has no connection to Azov and has never had any connection to Azov," the group said in a post to X on September 16. "The peaceful demonstration he attended was open and anyone could join it. He was caught on the video filmed by the protesters by accident."
Speaking by phone from Germany, Lutz told RFE/RL he met Routh on his first trip to Kyiv in June 2022.
"He seemed very communicative, extroverted, and hyper-focused on his task of getting foreigners into the Ukrainian Army," Lutz said.
"Once I was driving him around Kyiv when he had an idea of looking for a factory to build drones, a drone-manufacturing plant," he said. "We were traveling with a soldier. Some low-rank soldier. I don't remember the name. The soldier was helping him casually."
Lutz said he later became wary of Routh's efforts, and he ultimately blocked Routh on social media because, he said, Routh was bombarding him with messages.
Routh's persistence, and his public presence, brought him attention from some journalists, including Newsweek, which published a brief interview with him in the magazine's Romanian edition.
"This conflict is definitely black and white," he was quoted as saying. "This is about good versus evil."
Prior to his travels to Ukraine, and his efforts to help its military, Routh led what appeared to be an itinerant life, working for a time as a roofing contractor in Greensboro, North Carolina. He did not serve in the U.S. military.
According to the Greensboro News & Record newspaper, a man the paper identified as Routh and who had the same age was arrested by police in 2002 after barricading himself inside a building with an automatic weapon.
He later moved to Hawaii, according to U.S. news reports.
Routh's social media accounts -- on X and on Facebook – have been closed down as of September 16. But archived posts showed a mix of interests and rants about U.S. politics, as well as the Ukraine war.
In a series of posts on X in 2023, Routh claimed he was recruiting Afghan soldiers who were willing to serve in Taiwan or Haiti.
On the job-networking site LinkedIn, a profile listed under Routh's name matched many of his biographical details and said he was self-employed at a Hawaii company called Camp Box Honolulu.
A March 2023 post on the same LinkedIn profile showed two undated photos of what appeared to be Routh in front of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, and at Kyiv's famed Maidan, or Independence Square. The photos were captioned: "In DC and Kyiv to provide soldiers for the war effort."
Routh also appeared to have self-published a book on Amazon called "Ukraine's Unwinnable War," a finding first reported by the Associated Press.
In an introduction published on the Amazon website, where the book remains on sale, Routh gave a lengthy, vehement, and sometimes rambling defense of why he thought defending Ukraine was important:
"I presume that I must be clear, that while on the current path Ukraine will not win, it is imperative for the world that they do win, and that is why this book is so important, for us all to recognize that losing is not an option and what we must do to win," the excerpt said.
Mike Eckel contributed to this report from Prague.
Aleksander Palikot is a Kyiv-based journalist reporting on war and its impact on society, culture, and politics.
by Aleksander Palikot and Mike Eckel
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September 16, 2024 16:06 GMT
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Ryan Wesley Routh takes part in a rally in Kyiv in April 2022.
KYIV -- In the early months after Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Ryan Wesley Routh was a frequent and visible presence in Kyiv, reaching out to pedestrians on the city's famed Khreschatyk Street, addressing people in English, exchanging phone numbers, and asking for help in supporting Ukraine's armed forces.
He was seen by volunteers coming to Kyiv as a kind of mascot for Ukraine's military, said Christian Lutz, a German man who runs an aid organization called Phoenix and met Routh several times in 2022.
"‘The recruiter guy with an American flag around his neck'-- It's how everybody referred to him," Lutz told RFE/RL. "He seemed to be a lone wolf. He didn't have colleagues or friends with him."
mascot: a person, animal, or object adopted by a group as a symbolic figure especially to bring them good luck: "the team had a mountain lion as their mascot."
-- Mascot, by Merriam Webster Dictionary
Fast forward two years: Routh, 58, is now a suspect in an alleged assassination attempt against former U.S. President Donald Trump. Routh was detained by police in Florida on September 15 after Secret Service agents spotted him allegedly pointing a rifle at Trump as the Republican presidential candidate golfed at a West Palm Beach club.
Routh was arrested after fleeing the scene, and agents recovered an "AK-47-style" rifle with a scope, along with two backpacks and a GoPro camera from the scene, Palm Beach County Sheriff Ric Bradshaw told reporters.
While no evidence has yet to appear linking Routh's efforts in Ukraine to the incident in Florida, his arrest has stunned people who crossed paths with him in Ukraine and encountered his sometimes shambolic but apparently sincere efforts to help Ukraine in its defense against Russia's invasion.
"What the f*** is going on? This cannot be true," Lutz said when he heard the news about Routh's arrest.
Some of Ukraine's best-known volunteer fighting units were quick to distance themselves from Routh, releasing statements denying any connection to him.
"Routh has never served in the International Legion of the Main Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine. He has no relation to the unit," the International Legion, an officially sanctioned unit made up of foreign volunteers, said in a Telegram post. "Rumors circulating in certain media are not true."
In April 2022, Routh appeared at a rally in Kyiv in support of the Azov Battalion -- a controversial military unit revered by many in Ukraine for its fighting prowess.
The 12th Special Operations Brigade "Azov" (Ukrainian: 12-та бригада спеціального призначення «Азов», romanized: 12-ta bryhada spetsialnoho pryznachennya "Azov")[8] is a formation of the National Guard of Ukraine formerly based in Mariupol, in the coastal region of the Sea of Azov, from which it derives its name It was founded in May 2014 as the Azov Battalion (Ukrainian: батальйон «Азов», romanized: Batalion "Azov"), a self-funded volunteer militia under the command of Andriy Biletsky, to fight Russian-backed forces in the Donbas War. It was formally incorporated into the National Guard on 11 November 2014, and redesignated Special Operations Detachment "Azov", also known as the Azov Regiment. In February 2023, the Ukrainian Ministry of Internal Affairs announced that Azov was to be expanded as a brigade of the new Offensive Guard.
Biletsky in 2017
Andriy Yevheniyovych Biletsky (Ukrainian: Андрій Євгенійович Білецький, romanized: Andrii Yevheniiovych Biletskyi, IPA: [ɐnˈd⁽ʲ⁾r⁽ʲ⁾ij jeu̯ˈɦɛn⁽ʲ⁾ijowɪdʒ biˈlɛtsʲkɪj]; born 5 August 1979) is a Ukrainian far-right politician. He is the leader of political party National Corps. He was the first commander of the volunteer militia Azov Battalion, which he founded in 2014, and a co-founder of the nationalist movement Social-National Assembly. From 2014 until 2019, Biletsky was a People's Deputy of Ukraine.
Andriy Biletsky was born in 1979 in Kharkiv, Soviet Union. Biletsky's father Yevheniy Mykhailovych Biletsky hailed from an old Cossack family that founded the village of Krasnopavlivka in Kharkiv Oblast, while Biletsky's mother Olena Anatoliyivna Biletsky (née Lukashevych) descended from a noble family from Zhytomyr region, to which belong the Decembrist Vasiliy Lukashevich (Vasyl Lukashevych) who founded the "Little-Russian Secret Society".
In his youth, Biletsky practiced several types of martial arts and boxing. Unlike many Ukrainians, he declined to join the Vladimir Lenin All-Union Pioneer Organization. Biletsky, along with senior schoolmates, raised the Ukrainian flag over his school. His major patriotic influence in his youth was his father's gift of a book prohibited in the Soviet Union, History of Ukraine for Children by Anton Lototsky. During the Kosovo War, Biletsky and a group of other Ukrainians attempted to join the Yugoslav Army as volunteers to fight against the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), but the war ended before they arrived at the front. In 2001, Biletsky graduated with honors from the History faculty of the University of Kharkiv. His thesis was about the Ukrainian Insurgent Army. The same year Biletsky participated in the Ukraine without Kuchma (UBK) protests, for which he was placed under administrative arrest. The Security Service of Ukraine pressured the university administration to expel Biletsky from the institution.
In 2002 Biletsky became a leader of the Kharkiv branch of the political organization Tryzub, and was a member of the Kharkiv section of the Social-National Party of Ukraine (SNPU), but opposed the idea of its transformation into Svoboda.
After the transformation of SNPU into Svoboda and liquidation of the original Patriot of Ukraine, in 2005 Biletsky initiated a revival of the Patriot of Ukraine, independent from any political factions. The new Patriot of Ukraine initially consisted of the Kharkiv branches of UNA-UNSO, Tryzub, and former SNPU. Since 2005, Biletsky also cooperated with the newly established Ukrainian Conservative Party.
In the 2006 Ukrainian parliamentary election, Biletsky unsuccessfully ran for Ukrainian parliament.
During the Euromaidan events, members of the Biletsky's Patriot of Ukraine were among the founders of Right Sector on 28 November 2013. On 24 February 2014, the Ukrainian parliament adopted a decision on the freedom of political prisoners. The next day, Biletsky and other prisoners were completely acquitted of all charges and freed from custody.
On 12 March 2014, Biletsky became a party leader in special operations for the "Right Sector - East," which included such regions as Poltava, Kharkiv, Donetsk, and Luhansk oblasts. On 5 May 2014, in Berdyansk Biletsky became a founder of the Azov Battalion (as a territorial battalion of patrol service), and its first commander. The battalion was initially composed of members of the Patriot of Ukraine, SNA, football fans (notably Dynamo Kyiv supporters) and the AutoMaidan movement. The paramilitary unit became known as the Little black men as an opposition to the Russian special operations "Little green men". It would be transformed from a militia into a regular regiment of the National Guard of Ukraine on 20 November 2014.
In heraldry, the vertical form of the Ƶ-symbol is associated with the Donnerkeil (or "thunderbolt"), and the horizontal form of the Ƶ-symbol is associated with the Werwolf (or "Werewolf"). The Ƶ-symbol was later adopted by the Nazi Party, and was used by various German Wehrmacht and SS units such as the Waffen-SS Division Das Reich and the Waffen-SS Division Landstorm Nederland. The Anti-Defamation League, and others, list the Ƶ-symbol as a hate and a neo-Nazi symbol.
The Patriot of Ukraine (Ukrainian: Патріо́т Украї́ни, romanized: Patriót Ukrayíny) was an ultranationalist organization in Ukraine founded in 1999, disbanded in 2004, revived in 2005 and defunct since December 2014.
In its original form, it was launched in 1999 and became paramilitary wing of the Social-National Party of Ukraine (SNPU), and dissolved in 2004 when the latter rebranded in a less extremist form as Svoboda. Some members of the original group formed one of the constituent elements Svoboda. Some members of the Patriot of Ukraine refused to disband, and in 2005 Andriy Biletsky relaunched the group and it expanded into a political movement with national reach.
In its 2005 incarnation, it was affiliated to the Social-National Assembly of Ukraine (S.N.A.), an assemblage of far right organizations and groups founded in 2008 that share the social-national ideology and agree upon building a social-national state in Ukraine. Both the Patriot of Ukraine and the S.N.A. engaged in political violence against minorities and their political opponents.
In an interview to the Left Bank on 10 December 2014, Biletsky announced that the Patriot of Ukraine as political organization suspended its activities due to the war situation in the country and dissolved primarily within the Azov Battalion.
In 2016, former members of the Azov Battalions and the Patriot of Ukraine founded a new party named National Corps.
-- Patriot of Ukraine, by Wikipedia
On 13 June 2014, Biletsky led his detachment in the successful First Battle of Mariupol. According to British military reporter Askold Krushelnycky, "Biletsky was cool in the evaluation of actions and giving orders calmly and, in my opinion, logically". On 2 August 2014, Biletsky, holding a rank of Major of Militsiya, was awarded the Order For Courage (III degree) and promoted to lieutenant colonel of police on 15 August 2014.
On 10 September 2014, Biletsky was admitted to the military council of the People's Front, yet did not become a member of the party. On 27 September 2014, he ran as an independent candidate in the 217th electoral district (Kyiv) for the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election and won by receiving 31,445 votes (33.75%). In parliament, he joined the inter-factional group UKROP [Ukrainian Association of Patriots]. In October 2014, Ihor Mykhailenko replaced Biletsky as commander of Azov Battalion.
In an interview to LB.ua (Left Bank) given on 10 December 2014, Biletsky announced that the Patriot of Ukraine suspended its activities as a political organization due to the war, and would be absorbed primarily into the Azov Battalion. In the same interview Biletsky said that the logo of the battalion is different from the German Wolfsangel and symbolizes Ukrainian national idea....
Stylized horizontal form of the Wolfsangel (or crampon). In heraldry, the vertical form of the Ƶ-symbol is associated with the Donnerkeil (or "thunderbolt"), and the horizontal form of the Ƶ-symbol is associated with the Werwolf (or "Werewolf").
In the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election he was placed 2nd on the joined list of Svoboda with the far-right National Corps, the Governmental Initiative of Yarosh and Right Sector. His party did not win enough votes to clear the 5% election threshold and thus did not gain any parliamentary seats.
In 2023 he and Azov veterans organized the 3rd Assault Brigade, Biletsky was the commander of the "Azov Tactical Group" at first, which is part of the brigade, and soon after a full commander of brigade itself. The brigade constantly appears in news due to impressively successful combat results, most successful recruiting and training system, along with military operations of highest quality, which are often presented on brigade's widely renowned YouTube channel.
In 2010, Biletsky reportedly said that the Ukrainian nation's mission is to "lead the white races of the world in a final crusade...against Semite-led Untermenschen". Biletsky denied ever making such remarks.
In a 2007 article, Biletsky stated that "Ukrainian racial social-nationalism" was the ideology of Patriot of Ukraine. During his speech at a 2009 general meeting of the party he said: "How then can we describe our enemy? The general regime in power are oligarchs. Is there anything they have in common? Yes, one thing in common – they are Jews, or their true bosses – Jews – are behind them. Out of one hundred published richest people in Ukraine 92 are Jews, and some others of Tatar origin".
Until 2011 Biletsky was in favour of forming a confederation between Russia and Ukraine, with Kyiv as its capital, according to BBC News Ukrainian.
In 2013 he wrote a brochure called The Word of the White Leader («Слово білого вождя»). The BBC in 2014 and The Moscow Times in 2015 described Biletsky as a white supremacist. In 2014, he was accused of being an "actual neo-Nazi" by sociologist Volodymyr Ishchenko because of his involvement in Patriot of Ukraine and Azov.
In 2018, The Guardian reported that Biletsky "has toned down his rhetoric in recent years". Freedom House initiative Reporting Radicalism reported as of 2022 that he has not publicly made racist remarks since 2014, but he does "invoke anti-LGBT+ rhetoric frequently". Umland and Fedorenko wrote in 2021 that he still publicly objects to multiculturalism, but has stated "to be a Ukrainian nationalist today is to believe in values, not racial prejudice", and announced that his party does not use ethnicity to define who can, or cannot, be part of the nation Ukraine.Freedom House is a non-profit organization based in Washington, D.C. It is best known for political advocacy surrounding issues of democracy, political freedom, and human rights. Freedom House was founded in October 1941, with Wendell Willkie and Eleanor Roosevelt serving as its first honorary chairpersons. Most of the organization's funding comes from the U.S. State Department and other government grants. It also receives funds from various semi-public and private foundations, as well as individual contributions....
The U.S. representative stated that alleged links between Freedom House and the CIA were "simply not true". The representative said he agreed that the NGO receives funds from the United States Government, but said this is disclosed in its reports. The representative said the funds were from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), which was not a branch of the CIA.
The representative said his country had a law prohibiting the government from engaging in the activities of organizations seeking to change public policy, such as Freedom House.
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In 2022, however, The Independent still described him as a white supremacist, while The Daily Telegraph reported that he was known as the White Leader. According to a 2021 paper by political scientists Umland and Fedorenko, he had been known as white leader before 2014, but subsequently claimed that "if someone called me white leader face-to-face, [that person] would have been beaten".
-- Andriy Biletsky, by Wikipedia
The unit has drawn controversy over its early and allegedly continuing association with far-right groups and neo-Nazi ideology, its use of controversial symbols linked to Nazism, and early allegations that members of the unit participated in human rights violations. Some experts have been critical of the regiment's role within the larger Azov Movement, a political umbrella group made up of veterans and organizations linked to Azov, and its possible far-right political ambitions, despite claims of the regiment's depoliticization. Others argue that the regiment has changed, tempering its far-right underpinnings as it became part of the National Guard. The Azov Regiment has been a recurring theme of Russian propaganda. The unit has been designated a terrorist group by Russia since August 2022.
The regiment's size was estimated to be around 2,500 combatants in 2017, and around 900 in 2022. Most of the unit's members are Russian speakers from Russian-speaking regions of Ukraine. It also includes members from other countries. The regiment gained renewed attention during the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Russian president Vladimir Putin alleged that Ukraine was controlled by far-right forces, such as Azov, and gave "denazification" as a reason for the invasion. The Azov regiment played a prominent role in the siege of Mariupol and made its final stand at the Azovstal steel plant. The siege ended when a significant number of the regiment's fighters, including its commander, Denys Prokopenko, surrendered to Russian forces on orders from the Ukrainian high command.
-- Azov Brigade, by Wikipedia
In the preceding months, after weeks of holding out in the port city of Mariupol against a withering Russian siege, battalion members had finally surrendered, and many had been taken prisoner by Russia. Family members waged a public relations campaign, and staged rallies, to try and press for their relatives' release.
According to an Associated Press video of the event, Routh was seen wearing a blue vest with a U.S. flag on its back and holding a placard that read: "We cannot tolerate corruption and evil for another 50+ years. End Russia for our kids."
Routh also appeared in a video published in May 2022 by a Twitter account run by the relatives of Azov members.
https://x.com/save_mrpl/status/1520721566077698049
"We would like to officially state that Ryan Wesley Routh has no connection to Azov and has never had any connection to Azov," the group said in a post to X on September 16. "The peaceful demonstration he attended was open and anyone could join it. He was caught on the video filmed by the protesters by accident."
Remus Cernea, a Romanian activist and war correspondent, interviewed Routh in June 2022, and told Newsweek that Routh was then working as a recruiter for The International Legion for the Defense of Ukraine, a unit of the Ukrainian Army composed of foreign volunteers.
Cernea told Newsweek that Routh had become more disappointed with the direction of the conflict when they last met in August 2023, and upset by what he saw as insufficient aid being sent to Ukraine.
Remarking on his potential motives, Cernea said: "Maybe he thought that Trump is not a friend of Ukraine. Maybe if Trump wins, [he thought] the aid for Ukraine would stop."
-- Ryan Routh Encouraged Assassination of Trump In Book on Ukraine, by Hugh Cameron, Newsweek
In the early months after Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Ryan Wesley Routh was a frequent and visible presence in Kyiv, reaching out to pedestrians on the city's famed Khreschatyk Street, addressing people in English, exchanging phone numbers, and asking for help in supporting Ukraine's armed forces.
He was seen by volunteers coming to Kyiv as a kind of mascot for Ukraine's military, said Christian Lutz, a German man who runs an aid organization called Phoenix and met Routh several times in 2022.
"‘The recruiter guy with an American flag around his neck'-- It's how everybody referred to him," Lutz told RFE/RL. "He seemed to be a lone wolf. He didn't have colleagues or friends with him."...
"What the f*** is going on? This cannot be true," Lutz said when he heard the news about Routh's arrest....
Speaking by phone from Germany, Lutz told RFE/RL he met Routh on his first trip to Kyiv in June 2022.
"He seemed very communicative, extroverted, and hyper-focused on his task of getting foreigners into the Ukrainian Army," Lutz said.
"Once I was driving him around Kyiv when he had an idea of looking for a factory to build drones, a drone-manufacturing plant," he said. "We were traveling with a soldier. Some low-rank soldier. I don't remember the name. The soldier was helping him casually."
-- 'The Recruiter Guy With An American Flag Around His Neck': Who Is The Man Accused In Apparent Trump Assassination Attempt?, by Aleksander Palikot and Mike Eckel, RadioFreeEurope RadioLiberty
About PHOENIX – Aid Work Project
https://phoenix-awp.org/mission-no-2/
Who are we?
The PHOENIX–Aid Work Project initiative was formed by individuals who got to know each other before and during their individual aid missions in Ukraine and on the Internet. What we all have in common was, and still is, sharing in the fate of those who have been struck by war and violence in ways that even the mainstream media no longer reports on.
That’s why we’ve made it our mission to take the help of those who need it most into our own hands and help where help is really needed:
The civilians in the war-torn areas.
In contested regions and on front lines…
Who do we help?
Victims of acts of war who can no longer help themselves.
People living in the most remote and inaccessible corners of war-torn territories.
All the victims of the war who were forgotten and ignored.
We are willing to put ourselves in the greatest danger for this!
What is our mission?
In one word: help!
Aid of all kinds, from food and water to blankets, clothing, medicines, cuddly toys and soap bubbles for the smallest of the victims, are to be procured near the critical areas and then, with the help of local emergency services and soldiers, distributed to those who are unable to get those goods themselves or even escape to secured areas.
Our first mission, which took place between June and December 2022, showed the need for our help in these areas. Many of the people we brought food and water to had been completely cut off from the outside world for weeks and months. Some people have not seen a soul from outside their destroyed village since the beginning of the war. In many cases, we were also the first responders to venture into these areas since the invasion began.
Not only adults are affected, children are also left with nothing and urgently need our help. They often do not understand the situation they are in. They don’t understand why the mothers keep taking them down to the basement when it’s „storming“ outside again. All they understand or sense is the constant tension and anxiety of mothers, which leaves a deep imprint on those children.
Become a volunteer
Join us for a better life and future of Ukrainian civilians along the front lines.
Apply for a volunteer position with us on the ground, or join our social media and fundraising crew.
About PHOENIX – Aid Work Project
PHOENIX – Aid Work Project is an initiative founded by volunteers who came together on the Internet and on various aid missions in Ukraine in the summer of 2022 after Russia broke out the war of aggression in violation of international law. We have made it our task to help those who are either not reachable by the „big“ aid organizations or who have been forgotten and ignored: The civilians on the front lines, in embattled and recently liberated areas.
-- Phoenix-awp.org
Rękawek said that some foreign fighters that traveled to Ukraine in 2014 held extremist political beliefs and supported the Azov Battalion or the Russian separatist forces in Donba...
-- International Legion (Ukraine), by Wikipedia
Speaking by phone from Germany, Lutz told RFE/RL he met Routh on his first trip to Kyiv in June 2022.
"He seemed very communicative, extroverted, and hyper-focused on his task of getting foreigners into the Ukrainian Army," Lutz said.
"Once I was driving him around Kyiv when he had an idea of looking for a factory to build drones, a drone-manufacturing plant," he said. "We were traveling with a soldier. Some low-rank soldier. I don't remember the name. The soldier was helping him casually."
Lutz said he later became wary of Routh's efforts, and he ultimately blocked Routh on social media because, he said, Routh was bombarding him with messages.
Routh's persistence, and his public presence, brought him attention from some journalists, including Newsweek, which published a brief interview with him in the magazine's Romanian edition.
"This conflict is definitely black and white," he was quoted as saying. "This is about good versus evil."
Prior to his travels to Ukraine, and his efforts to help its military, Routh led what appeared to be an itinerant life, working for a time as a roofing contractor in Greensboro, North Carolina. He did not serve in the U.S. military.
According to the Greensboro News & Record newspaper, a man the paper identified as Routh and who had the same age was arrested by police in 2002 after barricading himself inside a building with an automatic weapon.
He later moved to Hawaii, according to U.S. news reports.
Routh's social media accounts -- on X and on Facebook – have been closed down as of September 16. But archived posts showed a mix of interests and rants about U.S. politics, as well as the Ukraine war.
In a series of posts on X in 2023, Routh claimed he was recruiting Afghan soldiers who were willing to serve in Taiwan or Haiti.
On the job-networking site LinkedIn, a profile listed under Routh's name matched many of his biographical details and said he was self-employed at a Hawaii company called Camp Box Honolulu.
A March 2023 post on the same LinkedIn profile showed two undated photos of what appeared to be Routh in front of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, and at Kyiv's famed Maidan, or Independence Square. The photos were captioned: "In DC and Kyiv to provide soldiers for the war effort."
Ryan Routh
Owner at Camp Box Honolulu
1 yr.
In DC and Kyiv to provide soldiers for the war effort.
Routh also appeared to have self-published a book on Amazon called "Ukraine's Unwinnable War," a finding first reported by the Associated Press.
In an introduction published on the Amazon website, where the book remains on sale, Routh gave a lengthy, vehement, and sometimes rambling defense of why he thought defending Ukraine was important:
"I presume that I must be clear, that while on the current path Ukraine will not win, it is imperative for the world that they do win, and that is why this book is so important, for us all to recognize that losing is not an option and what we must do to win," the excerpt said.
Mike Eckel contributed to this report from Prague.
Aleksander Palikot is a Kyiv-based journalist reporting on war and its impact on society, culture, and politics.
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International Legion (Ukraine)
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International Legion
Інтернаціональний легіон
Emblem of the International Legion for the Defence of Ukraine
Founded: 27 February 2022; 2 years ago
Allegiance : Ukraine
Branch: Ukrainian Ground Forces[1][2]; Main Directorate of Intelligence[2]
Type: Infantry and special operations; Role Anti-tank warfare; Clandestine operations; Cold-weather warfare; Counterintelligence; Direct action; Force protection; HUMINT; Internal security; Irregular warfare; Long-range penetration; Military intelligence; Patrolling; Raiding; Reconnaissance; Special operations; Urban warfare
Size: 1,500–30,000 (2022–2023)[3][4]
Anniversaries: 7 March[5]
Engagements: Russo-Ukrainian War;Russian invasion of Ukraine;Battle of Kharkiv; Battle of Kyiv; Battle of Sievierodonetsk[6]; Battle of Bakhmut[7]; 2023 Ukrainian counteroffensive[8]; March 2024 western Russia incursion
Website: ildu.com.ua
Commanders
Current: commander Unknown
The International Legion Defence of Ukraine,[note 1] or the Ukrainian Foreign Legion,[9] is a military unit of the Ukrainian Ground Forces of composed of foreign volunteers. It was created on 27 February 2022 by the Ukrainian government at the request of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to fight against the Russian invasion of the country.[10] It was originally part of the Territorial Defense Forces, under the name of International Legion of Territorial Defence of Ukraine, eventually transitioning to the command of the Ukrainian Ground Forces at some point in its existence.[2][1]
History
Formation of the unit
On 27 February 2022 (three days after the invasion began), under the order by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the unit was created to join the defence against the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. Its formation was announced in a statement by the Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba.[11][12] Kuleba promoted the unit on Twitter, inviting individuals to apply and stating that "together we defeated Hitler, and we will defeat Putin too."[13] On 7 March, the Ukrainian Armed Forces released the first image of International Legion soldiers in trenches on the outskirts of Kyiv and announced that new groups were being deployed to the front each day.
International Legion of Territorial Defence Forces of Ukraine
Foreign volunteers had come to Ukraine much earlier, in 2014, to join the fight against the pro-Russian separatists as members of Ukrainian volunteer battalions that have been created after the start of the War in the Donbas.[14] Most foreign fighters arrived throughout the summer of 2014,[15] and on 6 October 2014 the Ukrainian parliament voted to allow foreigners to join the Ukrainian military.[16]
While these units have officially been integrated into the Ukrainian Armed Forces, some units such as the Georgian Legion still exercise some autonomy.[17] Prior to the formation of the International Legion, the Georgian Legion was used to train English-speaking foreign volunteers. Kacper Rękawek, a researcher on foreign fighters in Ukraine, believes the majority of Western fighters prior to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine passed through the Georgian Legion.[14]
Other foreign volunteer battalions in the Ukrainian military included the Dzhokhar Dudayev Battalion and Sheikh Mansur Battalion—both formed by anti-Russian and anti-Ramzan Kadyrov Chechens,[18] and the Tactical Group "Belarus" (formed by anti-Lukashenko Belarusians).[19][20]
While Rękawek said that some foreign fighters that traveled to Ukraine in 2014 held extremist political beliefs and supported the Azov Battalion or the Russian separatist forces in Donbas,, the foreign fighters travelling to Ukraine in early 2022 "don't appear to be motivated, as a group, by a certain set of ideological tropes".[21] He also said the mobilization of foreign fighters in 2022 is much larger than the mobilization in 2014.[22] According to Rękawek, the formation of the International Legion was "an attempt to internationalize the conflict via mobilization of Western individuals for the Ukrainian cause. This development would also assist in embarrassing the Western governments, who in the eyes of many Ukrainians are not doing enough to support Kyiv."[22]
Subsequent developments
On 11 April 2023, defense minister Oleksiy Reznikov invited foreign F-16 pilots to join the international legion and fly combat missions for Ukraine, as well as those who know how to maintain Western-made artillery and tanks.[23]
Historical comparisons
See also: International Brigades
Many commentators have compared the International Legion to the International Brigades of the Spanish Civil War,[24][25][26] which comprised foreign volunteers who supported the Second Spanish Republic against the Nationalist faction led by fascist general Francisco Franco that sought to overthrow the Republic.[27]
Other commentators have criticized this comparison. Sebastiaan Faber of Oberlin College in the U.S. argued that depicting the Legion as part of a war between fascism and anti-fascism risks playing "into the Kremlin's narrative, which seeks to portray the "special military operation" as an effort to "denazify" its western neighbor." Critics have also highlighted differences in the makeup of the two international units: volunteers to Spain generally lacked military experience, while those to Ukraine tend to have prior military experience.[28] Moreover, the Brigades were organised by the Communist International, and thus mostly comprised communists with backgrounds in labour movements, whereas the Ukrainian Legion is composed of volunteers from a broader spectrum of ideologies.[28][29]
Elizabeth Grasmeder of Duke University has compared Ukraine's foreign legion to Finland's efforts to recruit legionnaires and other foreign volunteers during the Winter War (1939–1940). Grasmeder argues states are likely to recruit foreign volunteers when fighting wars of "national survival" against another state attempting to annex their territory. Ukraine's conflict with Russia is an interstate conflict of "national survival" against annexation, as was Finland's with the Soviet Union.[10]
In establishing the force, Ukraine joined more than 90 other nations that have recruited legionnaires and raised foreign legions over the previous two centuries.[30]
A modern-day organization that holds the same name and has a similar structure is the Interbrigades, a pro-Russian militia operating in Donbas since 2014.
Recruitment and selection
Legionnaires of the Ukrainian International Legion undergoing training, July 2024
Early recruitment efforts prioritized former soldiers, especially those with experience in combat.[31] However, regardless of their experience, most of the volunteers who reached Lviv and applied in the early days of the war were accepted.[32]
The First Deputy Interior Minister of Ukraine, Yevhen Yenin, announced in March 2022 that volunteers to the International Legion would be eligible for Ukrainian citizenship, if desired.[33] The necessary probation period is the duration of the war.[34]
As of February 2024, the standard contract length was three years,[citation needed] however soldiers could terminate their contracts at any time. Starting May 2024, Ukraine began prohibiting soldiers from terminating their contracts before completing six months of service.[35] Monthly pay matches enlisted soldier pay in regular Ukrainian units, ranging from approximately $600 per month for rear-line troops to $3300 per month while on a combat deployment.[36]
Selection criteria have broadened since 2022, and now the International Legion accepts those without any experience in military organizations, so long as they demonstrate a willingness to serve. Priority is still given to combat veterans, former military personnel, and other people experienced in relevant fields such as firefighting, medical aid, and law enforcement. Additionally, applicants must be fluent in either English, Spanish, or the Ukrainian language. Applicants must have no criminal record. Candidates receive a physical health assessment before being admitted, which includes an assessment of physical fitness.[36]
Almost all International Legion soldiers receive some amount of training before joining their unit in the Ukrainian military. For those who recently left military service and are thus expected to have a strong foundation of combat skills and drills, only 1–2 weeks of training is required to familiarize them with Ukrainian communications and command structure. For those with less experience, they are put through an expedited form of basic combat training that often lasts up to 6 weeks.[36]
In May 2024, a spokesman for the legion said that people from more than 100 nations had joined the unit.[37]
Controversies
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said that by 6 March 2022 more than 20,000 volunteers from 52 countries had enlisted to fight for Ukraine; several thousand more reportedly joined after the announcement. Kuleba withheld further demographic details, citing that several nations forbid their citizens from fighting for foreign governments. However, a New York Times investigation in March 2023 found that there may be only 1,500 members in the organization, including many who have engaged in fraud and stolen valor.[4][38] Marco Bocchese, an assistant professor of international relations at Webster Vienna Private University, called the claim of 20,000 volunteers "pure propaganda".[39]
Leadership and criminality
According to The Kyiv Independent, which has received information from sources inside the Legion, the leadership of the intelligence-run wing of the International Legion or GUR is allegedly implicated in various violations, including abuse, theft, and sending soldiers unprepared on reckless missions. The paper also claims that one of the unit's commanders is an alleged former member of a criminal organization from Poland, wanted at home for fraud: the Legion's fighters accuse him of abusing power by ordering soldiers to loot shops, threatening soldiers with a gun, and sexually harassing the legion's female medics.[40]
Members of the Legion, according to The Kyiv Independent, repeatedly reported this to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Ministry of Defence, the Verkhovna Rada (Ukraine's national parliament) and the Office of the President of Ukraine, but received no proper answer.[40]
Notable criminals who joined the legion
Prior to the bill allowing for the voluntary mobilization of convicts into the Ukrainian Armed Forces, the International Legion was the only unit that allowed criminals to join its ranks.[41][42][43]
• Craig Lang, an American military veteran and double-murder suspect. He was later extradited back to the United States.[44][45]
• Steven Keith Munroe, an American who joined the legion after he was refused entry into the United States army due to his criminal record. He was later killed in action during the 2022 Kharkiv counteroffensive.[46][47]
• Tristan Nettles, a 34 year old US Marine Corps veteran who used his girlfriend to unwittingly transport drugs in Thailand.[48]
• Harusan, a 50 year old Japanese man and former Yakuza member who has been in-and-out jails and involved in numerous crimes. Harusan was sentenced to nine years in jail for violating Japan's explosive substances control law after he had detonated a homemade bomb at the entrance of an organisation that promoted friendly relations between China and Japan. An extra year was added onto his sentence after he beat up a fellow inmate.[49]
Extremism
There have been several reported cases of extremists, fugitives, and criminals from other countries joining the Ukrainian military.[50] A notable case is Craig Lang, an American military veteran and double-murder suspect who served in far-right militias and the legion.[51][52][53] In 2022, an image emerged of two Croatian volunteers holding the flag of the Independent State of Croatia.[54] In February 2023, Japanese volunteers posted an image of 4 volunteers posing with the Imperial Japanese rising sun flag. In modern times, the rising sun flag has become a symbol of Japanese Imperialism and has been used by the Japanese far-right. However, the status of the rising sun flag as an indicator of extremism is debatable, particularly since it is still used by some branches of Japanese military such as the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force who uses a naval ensign that looks similar to the World War II era rising sun flag.[55][better source needed] The Belarusian Volunteer Corps double cross insignia was noted for being similar to the 30th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS's insignia. In December 2023, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Belarus designated the unit as an extremist group.[56] The Karelian National Battalion's first insignia which the unit adopted on 19 January 2023, was a Viking ship with a Wolfsangel on the ship's sail.[57] It was later changed to an arm holding a sword with the word "Karelia" above in Karelian. The German Volunteer Corps which was formed in February 2023 was noted by Junge Welt to have connections and similar ideological perspectives to the Neo-Nazi Third Way party.[58] The Russian Volunteer Corps (RVC) was founded in August 2022[59] The founder and leader of the group is Denis Nikitin, who has been described as a neo-Nazi.[60][61][62][63] The Ukrainian government claims that the RVC is not a part of the Ukrainian armed forces. However, the unit is attached to Military Unit A3449 which is a collection of units of the International Legion that are subordinate to the Main Directorate of Intelligence (HUR).[64]
Recruitment and desertion
Tensions between several countries and the Ukrainian government have been reported because of Ukraine's recruitment of foreign volunteers, due to breaking local laws and several cases of military personnel deserting their units to travel to Ukraine. Citizens of countries with local laws banning service in foreign militaries may face criminal charges upon return to their home country.[65] Countries with military personnel that have deserted and traveled to Ukraine include: Belgium,[66] Britain,[65] France (including legionnaires from Ukraine),[67] and South Korea.[68] The French Foreign Legion has released individual Ukrainian legionnaires from their contract with the beginning of the 2022 Russian invasion.
The legion has experienced desertion. Contracts for foreign volunteers reportedly have indefinite time frames, meaning that volunteers who leave before the end of the war are deserting. It has been reported that the Ukrainian government offers minimal resistance to foreign volunteers who decide to leave.[9][69][70]
A legion member from the Faroe Islands named Bjørn told Euronews that of the recruits that end up at the front, 20% leave after 2-5 missions because they realise that "war is hell".[71]
Defection
It was reported in March 2023 that an ex-Legion volunteer named John McIntyre defected to Russia after he was discharged from the legion for bad behavior.[4] He claimed that he wanted to do his part in fighting Nazism.[72]
Strength and organization
Kacper Rękawek, a researcher on foreign fighters in Ukraine, stressed the large number of volunteers announced by Ukraine were "people who applied, who got in touch with the Ukrainian Embassy" and not necessarily the number of foreign fighters in Ukraine.[21]
On 3 March 2022, Zelenskyy announced 16,000 foreign volunteers had attempted to join the International Legion.[73]
On 7 March 2022, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba stated that more than 20,000 volunteers from 52 countries have volunteered to fight for Ukraine. He did not mention the home countries of the volunteers, saying that some of the countries forbid their citizens from fighting for other countries. He also did not specify how many of the foreign volunteers have arrived in Ukraine.[74]
However, investigations in early 2023 by the New York Times and VICE have placed the number of foreign fighters far lower, stating that there were actually only 1,500-2,000 foreign fighters supporting Kyiv.[4][75] Marco Bocchese, an assistant professor of international relations at Webster Vienna Private University, called the claim of 20,000 volunteers "pure propaganda".[39]
Recruits with past military experience have described the legion as insufficiently officered, leading to unnecessary casualties.[9]
Government acknowledgment of nationals serving in the International Legion[relevant?]
In early March 2022, a French government adviser confirmed a dozen French nationals were in Ukraine and had likely joined the International Legion.[76]
The first photo distributed by the Ukrainian armed forces of the International Legion included members from the United Kingdom,[77][failed verification] Mexico,[78] the United States, India, Sweden, and Lithuania.[79]
On 9 March 2022, the National Post reported that an anonymous representative of the International Legion of Territorial Defence of Ukraine had confirmed 550 Canadians were in the Canadian Ukrainian Brigade fighting in Ukraine.[80] Belgian Minister of Defence Ludivine Dedonder confirmed on 15 March 2022 that one Belgian soldier had resigned to join the International Legion and another Belgian soldier had deserted to enlist in the International Legion.[66]
Former New Zealand defense minister Ron Mark said that around 20 New Zealanders are fighting for the legion.[81][82]
Structure and units
List of standalone units
For a list of foreign battalions of the war in Donbas, see Ukrainian volunteer battalions.
The units and their respective nationalities have been reported as being part of the wider International Legion proper:
Other well-known military units composed by foreign nationals are the Chechen Sheikh Mansur Battalion and 34th Assault Battalion "Mad Pack" [ru], the Muslim Caucasian Muslim Corps "Caucasus" [fr; ru], the Canadian Black Maple Company, and the diverse Norman Brigade. However, these are not part of the International Legion proper, but are a part of the Ukrainian Ground Forces. These thus serve as affiliated units to the Legion.
Military Unit A3449
Several units of the International legion are subordinate to the Main Directorate of Intelligence (HUR) as part of "A3449", an unnamed military unit. This unit largely consist of the larger, better trained, and equipped members of the legion.
Summary of official international government responses
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International Legion (Ukraine)
by Wikipedia
Accessed: 9/17/24
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internati ... n_(Ukraine)
International Legion
Інтернаціональний легіон
Emblem of the International Legion for the Defence of Ukraine
Founded: 27 February 2022; 2 years ago
Allegiance : Ukraine
Branch: Ukrainian Ground Forces[1][2]; Main Directorate of Intelligence[2]
Type: Infantry and special operations; Role Anti-tank warfare; Clandestine operations; Cold-weather warfare; Counterintelligence; Direct action; Force protection; HUMINT; Internal security; Irregular warfare; Long-range penetration; Military intelligence; Patrolling; Raiding; Reconnaissance; Special operations; Urban warfare
Size: 1,500–30,000 (2022–2023)[3][4]
Anniversaries: 7 March[5]
Engagements: Russo-Ukrainian War;Russian invasion of Ukraine;Battle of Kharkiv; Battle of Kyiv; Battle of Sievierodonetsk[6]; Battle of Bakhmut[7]; 2023 Ukrainian counteroffensive[8]; March 2024 western Russia incursion
Website: ildu.com.ua
Commanders
Current: commander Unknown
The International Legion Defence of Ukraine,[note 1] or the Ukrainian Foreign Legion,[9] is a military unit of the Ukrainian Ground Forces of composed of foreign volunteers. It was created on 27 February 2022 by the Ukrainian government at the request of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to fight against the Russian invasion of the country.[10] It was originally part of the Territorial Defense Forces, under the name of International Legion of Territorial Defence of Ukraine, eventually transitioning to the command of the Ukrainian Ground Forces at some point in its existence.[2][1]
History
Formation of the unit
On 27 February 2022 (three days after the invasion began), under the order by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the unit was created to join the defence against the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. Its formation was announced in a statement by the Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba.[11][12] Kuleba promoted the unit on Twitter, inviting individuals to apply and stating that "together we defeated Hitler, and we will defeat Putin too."[13] On 7 March, the Ukrainian Armed Forces released the first image of International Legion soldiers in trenches on the outskirts of Kyiv and announced that new groups were being deployed to the front each day.
International Legion of Territorial Defence Forces of Ukraine
Foreign volunteers had come to Ukraine much earlier, in 2014, to join the fight against the pro-Russian separatists as members of Ukrainian volunteer battalions that have been created after the start of the War in the Donbas.[14] Most foreign fighters arrived throughout the summer of 2014,[15] and on 6 October 2014 the Ukrainian parliament voted to allow foreigners to join the Ukrainian military.[16]
While these units have officially been integrated into the Ukrainian Armed Forces, some units such as the Georgian Legion still exercise some autonomy.[17] Prior to the formation of the International Legion, the Georgian Legion was used to train English-speaking foreign volunteers. Kacper Rękawek, a researcher on foreign fighters in Ukraine, believes the majority of Western fighters prior to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine passed through the Georgian Legion.[14]
Other foreign volunteer battalions in the Ukrainian military included the Dzhokhar Dudayev Battalion and Sheikh Mansur Battalion—both formed by anti-Russian and anti-Ramzan Kadyrov Chechens,[18] and the Tactical Group "Belarus" (formed by anti-Lukashenko Belarusians).[19][20]
While Rękawek said that some foreign fighters that traveled to Ukraine in 2014 held extremist political beliefs and supported the Azov Battalion or the Russian separatist forces in Donbas,, the foreign fighters travelling to Ukraine in early 2022 "don't appear to be motivated, as a group, by a certain set of ideological tropes".[21] He also said the mobilization of foreign fighters in 2022 is much larger than the mobilization in 2014.[22] According to Rękawek, the formation of the International Legion was "an attempt to internationalize the conflict via mobilization of Western individuals for the Ukrainian cause. This development would also assist in embarrassing the Western governments, who in the eyes of many Ukrainians are not doing enough to support Kyiv."[22]
Subsequent developments
On 11 April 2023, defense minister Oleksiy Reznikov invited foreign F-16 pilots to join the international legion and fly combat missions for Ukraine, as well as those who know how to maintain Western-made artillery and tanks.[23]
Historical comparisons
See also: International Brigades
Many commentators have compared the International Legion to the International Brigades of the Spanish Civil War,[24][25][26] which comprised foreign volunteers who supported the Second Spanish Republic against the Nationalist faction led by fascist general Francisco Franco that sought to overthrow the Republic.[27]
Other commentators have criticized this comparison. Sebastiaan Faber of Oberlin College in the U.S. argued that depicting the Legion as part of a war between fascism and anti-fascism risks playing "into the Kremlin's narrative, which seeks to portray the "special military operation" as an effort to "denazify" its western neighbor." Critics have also highlighted differences in the makeup of the two international units: volunteers to Spain generally lacked military experience, while those to Ukraine tend to have prior military experience.[28] Moreover, the Brigades were organised by the Communist International, and thus mostly comprised communists with backgrounds in labour movements, whereas the Ukrainian Legion is composed of volunteers from a broader spectrum of ideologies.[28][29]
Elizabeth Grasmeder of Duke University has compared Ukraine's foreign legion to Finland's efforts to recruit legionnaires and other foreign volunteers during the Winter War (1939–1940). Grasmeder argues states are likely to recruit foreign volunteers when fighting wars of "national survival" against another state attempting to annex their territory. Ukraine's conflict with Russia is an interstate conflict of "national survival" against annexation, as was Finland's with the Soviet Union.[10]
In establishing the force, Ukraine joined more than 90 other nations that have recruited legionnaires and raised foreign legions over the previous two centuries.[30]
A modern-day organization that holds the same name and has a similar structure is the Interbrigades, a pro-Russian militia operating in Donbas since 2014.
Recruitment and selection
Legionnaires of the Ukrainian International Legion undergoing training, July 2024
Early recruitment efforts prioritized former soldiers, especially those with experience in combat.[31] However, regardless of their experience, most of the volunteers who reached Lviv and applied in the early days of the war were accepted.[32]
The First Deputy Interior Minister of Ukraine, Yevhen Yenin, announced in March 2022 that volunteers to the International Legion would be eligible for Ukrainian citizenship, if desired.[33] The necessary probation period is the duration of the war.[34]
As of February 2024, the standard contract length was three years,[citation needed] however soldiers could terminate their contracts at any time. Starting May 2024, Ukraine began prohibiting soldiers from terminating their contracts before completing six months of service.[35] Monthly pay matches enlisted soldier pay in regular Ukrainian units, ranging from approximately $600 per month for rear-line troops to $3300 per month while on a combat deployment.[36]
Selection criteria have broadened since 2022, and now the International Legion accepts those without any experience in military organizations, so long as they demonstrate a willingness to serve. Priority is still given to combat veterans, former military personnel, and other people experienced in relevant fields such as firefighting, medical aid, and law enforcement. Additionally, applicants must be fluent in either English, Spanish, or the Ukrainian language. Applicants must have no criminal record. Candidates receive a physical health assessment before being admitted, which includes an assessment of physical fitness.[36]
Almost all International Legion soldiers receive some amount of training before joining their unit in the Ukrainian military. For those who recently left military service and are thus expected to have a strong foundation of combat skills and drills, only 1–2 weeks of training is required to familiarize them with Ukrainian communications and command structure. For those with less experience, they are put through an expedited form of basic combat training that often lasts up to 6 weeks.[36]
In May 2024, a spokesman for the legion said that people from more than 100 nations had joined the unit.[37]
Controversies
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said that by 6 March 2022 more than 20,000 volunteers from 52 countries had enlisted to fight for Ukraine; several thousand more reportedly joined after the announcement. Kuleba withheld further demographic details, citing that several nations forbid their citizens from fighting for foreign governments. However, a New York Times investigation in March 2023 found that there may be only 1,500 members in the organization, including many who have engaged in fraud and stolen valor.[4][38] Marco Bocchese, an assistant professor of international relations at Webster Vienna Private University, called the claim of 20,000 volunteers "pure propaganda".[39]
Leadership and criminality
According to The Kyiv Independent, which has received information from sources inside the Legion, the leadership of the intelligence-run wing of the International Legion or GUR is allegedly implicated in various violations, including abuse, theft, and sending soldiers unprepared on reckless missions. The paper also claims that one of the unit's commanders is an alleged former member of a criminal organization from Poland, wanted at home for fraud: the Legion's fighters accuse him of abusing power by ordering soldiers to loot shops, threatening soldiers with a gun, and sexually harassing the legion's female medics.[40]
Members of the Legion, according to The Kyiv Independent, repeatedly reported this to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Ministry of Defence, the Verkhovna Rada (Ukraine's national parliament) and the Office of the President of Ukraine, but received no proper answer.[40]
Notable criminals who joined the legion
Prior to the bill allowing for the voluntary mobilization of convicts into the Ukrainian Armed Forces, the International Legion was the only unit that allowed criminals to join its ranks.[41][42][43]
• Craig Lang, an American military veteran and double-murder suspect. He was later extradited back to the United States.[44][45]
• Steven Keith Munroe, an American who joined the legion after he was refused entry into the United States army due to his criminal record. He was later killed in action during the 2022 Kharkiv counteroffensive.[46][47]
• Tristan Nettles, a 34 year old US Marine Corps veteran who used his girlfriend to unwittingly transport drugs in Thailand.[48]
• Harusan, a 50 year old Japanese man and former Yakuza member who has been in-and-out jails and involved in numerous crimes. Harusan was sentenced to nine years in jail for violating Japan's explosive substances control law after he had detonated a homemade bomb at the entrance of an organisation that promoted friendly relations between China and Japan. An extra year was added onto his sentence after he beat up a fellow inmate.[49]
Extremism
There have been several reported cases of extremists, fugitives, and criminals from other countries joining the Ukrainian military.[50] A notable case is Craig Lang, an American military veteran and double-murder suspect who served in far-right militias and the legion.[51][52][53] In 2022, an image emerged of two Croatian volunteers holding the flag of the Independent State of Croatia.[54] In February 2023, Japanese volunteers posted an image of 4 volunteers posing with the Imperial Japanese rising sun flag. In modern times, the rising sun flag has become a symbol of Japanese Imperialism and has been used by the Japanese far-right. However, the status of the rising sun flag as an indicator of extremism is debatable, particularly since it is still used by some branches of Japanese military such as the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force who uses a naval ensign that looks similar to the World War II era rising sun flag.[55][better source needed] The Belarusian Volunteer Corps double cross insignia was noted for being similar to the 30th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS's insignia. In December 2023, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Belarus designated the unit as an extremist group.[56] The Karelian National Battalion's first insignia which the unit adopted on 19 January 2023, was a Viking ship with a Wolfsangel on the ship's sail.[57] It was later changed to an arm holding a sword with the word "Karelia" above in Karelian. The German Volunteer Corps which was formed in February 2023 was noted by Junge Welt to have connections and similar ideological perspectives to the Neo-Nazi Third Way party.[58] The Russian Volunteer Corps (RVC) was founded in August 2022[59] The founder and leader of the group is Denis Nikitin, who has been described as a neo-Nazi.[60][61][62][63] The Ukrainian government claims that the RVC is not a part of the Ukrainian armed forces. However, the unit is attached to Military Unit A3449 which is a collection of units of the International Legion that are subordinate to the Main Directorate of Intelligence (HUR).[64]
Recruitment and desertion
Tensions between several countries and the Ukrainian government have been reported because of Ukraine's recruitment of foreign volunteers, due to breaking local laws and several cases of military personnel deserting their units to travel to Ukraine. Citizens of countries with local laws banning service in foreign militaries may face criminal charges upon return to their home country.[65] Countries with military personnel that have deserted and traveled to Ukraine include: Belgium,[66] Britain,[65] France (including legionnaires from Ukraine),[67] and South Korea.[68] The French Foreign Legion has released individual Ukrainian legionnaires from their contract with the beginning of the 2022 Russian invasion.
The legion has experienced desertion. Contracts for foreign volunteers reportedly have indefinite time frames, meaning that volunteers who leave before the end of the war are deserting. It has been reported that the Ukrainian government offers minimal resistance to foreign volunteers who decide to leave.[9][69][70]
A legion member from the Faroe Islands named Bjørn told Euronews that of the recruits that end up at the front, 20% leave after 2-5 missions because they realise that "war is hell".[71]
Defection
It was reported in March 2023 that an ex-Legion volunteer named John McIntyre defected to Russia after he was discharged from the legion for bad behavior.[4] He claimed that he wanted to do his part in fighting Nazism.[72]
Strength and organization
Kacper Rękawek, a researcher on foreign fighters in Ukraine, stressed the large number of volunteers announced by Ukraine were "people who applied, who got in touch with the Ukrainian Embassy" and not necessarily the number of foreign fighters in Ukraine.[21]
On 3 March 2022, Zelenskyy announced 16,000 foreign volunteers had attempted to join the International Legion.[73]
On 7 March 2022, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba stated that more than 20,000 volunteers from 52 countries have volunteered to fight for Ukraine. He did not mention the home countries of the volunteers, saying that some of the countries forbid their citizens from fighting for other countries. He also did not specify how many of the foreign volunteers have arrived in Ukraine.[74]
However, investigations in early 2023 by the New York Times and VICE have placed the number of foreign fighters far lower, stating that there were actually only 1,500-2,000 foreign fighters supporting Kyiv.[4][75] Marco Bocchese, an assistant professor of international relations at Webster Vienna Private University, called the claim of 20,000 volunteers "pure propaganda".[39]
Recruits with past military experience have described the legion as insufficiently officered, leading to unnecessary casualties.[9]
Government acknowledgment of nationals serving in the International Legion[relevant?]
In early March 2022, a French government adviser confirmed a dozen French nationals were in Ukraine and had likely joined the International Legion.[76]
The first photo distributed by the Ukrainian armed forces of the International Legion included members from the United Kingdom,[77][failed verification] Mexico,[78] the United States, India, Sweden, and Lithuania.[79]
On 9 March 2022, the National Post reported that an anonymous representative of the International Legion of Territorial Defence of Ukraine had confirmed 550 Canadians were in the Canadian Ukrainian Brigade fighting in Ukraine.[80] Belgian Minister of Defence Ludivine Dedonder confirmed on 15 March 2022 that one Belgian soldier had resigned to join the International Legion and another Belgian soldier had deserted to enlist in the International Legion.[66]
Former New Zealand defense minister Ron Mark said that around 20 New Zealanders are fighting for the legion.[81][82]
Structure and units
List of standalone units
For a list of foreign battalions of the war in Donbas, see Ukrainian volunteer battalions.
The units and their respective nationalities have been reported as being part of the wider International Legion proper:
Patch / Name / Description
[x] / 1st Infantry Battalion / The first battalion of the Legion formed on 27 February 2022. It is a light infantry battalion made up of international volunteers from several nations. It has participated in some of the most critical battles in the war.
[x] / 2nd Battalion / Formed in October 2022. It is a battalion made up of international volunteers from several countries, notably from Latin America.
[x] / 3rd Special Purpose Battalion / Formed on 27 February 2022. It is a special forces battalion made up of international volunteers.
[x] / 4th Training Battalion / Newly established light infantry battalion responsible for the training of international volunteers. People accepted into the 4th Battalion are trained to US and NATO standards.[83]
[x] / Canadian-Ukrainian Brigade / Formed in March 2022. Made up of ex-Canadian servicemen and fresh volunteers.[84]
[x] / Dzhokhar Dudayev Battalion / One of several Chechen volunteer armed formations fighting on the side of Ukraine. The battalion is named after the first President of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, Dzhokhar Dudayev. Their commander is Adam Osmayev.[85]
[x] / Khamzat Gelayev Detachment [ru; uk] / One of several Chechen volunteer armed formations. The battalion was created in honor of one of the most respected Chechen commanders of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, Khamzat Gelayev. Many of its members are veterans from Gelayev's special forces.
[x] / Ichkerian Special Purpose Battalion / One of several Chechen volunteer armed formations. The battalion is subordinate to the Ministry of Defence of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria. Consists of Chechen veterans of the Chechen wars as well as the Syrian civil-war.
[x] / Imam Shamil Dagestan Battalion [ru; uk] Consists of members of the several ethnic groups of Dagestan
[x] / Pahonia Regiment / Consists of Belarusians. Disbanded on 1 July 2023.[86]
[x] / Bashkir Company [uk] / Consists of ethnic Bashkirs affiliated with the Committee of Bashkir Resistance[87]
[x] / Black Bridge / Military wing of the Russian opposition and partisan group Black Bridge
[x] / Bolívar Battalion / Consists of volunteers from South American countries such as Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador and Argentina.[88] There are also Ukrainians, Americans and Australians.
[x] / Romanian Battlegroup Getica / Consists of citizens of Romania and Moldova.[89]
Other well-known military units composed by foreign nationals are the Chechen Sheikh Mansur Battalion and 34th Assault Battalion "Mad Pack" [ru], the Muslim Caucasian Muslim Corps "Caucasus" [fr; ru], the Canadian Black Maple Company, and the diverse Norman Brigade. However, these are not part of the International Legion proper, but are a part of the Ukrainian Ground Forces. These thus serve as affiliated units to the Legion.
Military Unit A3449
Several units of the International legion are subordinate to the Main Directorate of Intelligence (HUR) as part of "A3449", an unnamed military unit. This unit largely consist of the larger, better trained, and equipped members of the legion.
Patch / Name / Description
[x] / A3449 The HUR unit which oversees and aids the operations of the following units.
[x] / Freedom of Russia Legion Volunteers are former servicemen of the Russian Armed Forces, as well as other Russians and Belarusians volunteers living in Ukraine.[90]
[x] / Russian Volunteer Corps Volunteers from the Russian diaspora, more radical, ideological, and further right politically than the FRL. Led by Denis Kapustin.
[x] / Karelian National Battalion / Formed in 2023, consists of Karelians.[91] The Battalion is a part of the Karelian National Movement.[92]
[x] / Sibir Battalion / Consists largely of indigenous Russian volunteers, whose end goal is their peoples' independence from the Russian Federation.[93]
[x] / Belarusian Volunteer Corps / Consists of Belarusians. Includes the Terror Battalion.
[x] / Polish Volunteer Corps / Polish volunteers affiliated to the RVC.
[x] / German Volunteer Corps / German volunteers affiliated to the RVC.
[x] / Kastuś Kalinoŭski Regiment / Unit of Belarusian volunteers formed during the 2014 War in Donbas, maintains close ties with Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya and the Belarusian opposition
[x] / Georgian Legion / Unit of Georgian volunteers formed during the 2014 War in Donbas, led by Mamuka Mamulashvili.
Summary of official international government responses
Country / Legality of citizens enlisting / Official Stance on International Legion / Ref
Algeria / Illegal / Algeria discourages its citizens from enlisting. [94]
Australia / Unclear / While legal for an Australian to fight for a foreign government, it may be unlawful to make preparations to do so due to a lack of legal precedent in the area. [95]
Austria / Illegal / It is illegal for Austrian citizens to enlist in the International Legion under Austrian law. [96]
Belarus / Illegal / It is illegal for Belarusian citizens to enlist in the International Legion. However, the Belarusian opposition leader, in exile in Poland, Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya has endorsed Belarusians enlisting in the International Legion. [97]
Belgium / Legal / Belgium discourages its citizens from enlisting. However, it is legal for Belgian citizens to enlist under Belgian law. [98][99]
Cambodia / Unclear / Cambodia discourages its citizens from enlisting. [100]
Canada / Legal under certain circumstances / Canada allows its citizens to enlist in the International Legion, however Canadian law may technically bar joining a military at war with a "friendly state". [101][102][103]
Croatia / Legal under certain circumstances / Croatia allows participation in the war on the condition that the constitutional order of that country is not violated, its territorial integrity is undermined and mercenary is not involved. [104][105]
Czech Republic / Legal under certain circumstances / The Czech Republic allows its citizens to enlist in the International Legion after receiving permission from the Czech president. [106][107]
Denmark / Legal under certain circumstances / There is no law in Denmark that prohibits Danish citizens from enlisting the International Legion. Danish citizens however, are not allowed to fight in an armed conflict where Denmark is a party, and one fights on the side of the enemy. [108]
Estonia / Legal under certain circumstances / Prompted by Russia's attack against Ukraine Penal Codes have been amended to ensure an appropriate punishment for any person who takes part in aggression. Pursuant to the new laws, joining the armed forces of a foreign state committing an act of aggression or any other armed unit participating in an act of aggression committed by a foreign state, participation in the commission of or preparing an act of aggression by a foreign state as well as knowingly and directly, including financially supporting an act of aggression by a foreign state is punishable as a criminal offence. Under the Act, such an activity is punishable by imprisonment of up to five years. If such an act is committed by a legal person, it is punishable by a pecuniary punishment. [109]
Finland / Unclear / Finland discourages its citizens from enlisting. [110]
France / Legal / France allows its citizens to enlist in the International Legion. [76]
Georgia / Unclear / Georgia discourages its citizens from enlisting. [111]
Germany / Legal / German law does not forbid its citizens to enlist in the International Legion. However, attempting to recruit a German citizen into foreign military service is illegal.[112] [113]
India / Illegal / It is illegal for Indian citizens to enlist in the International Legion under Indian law. [114]
Indonesia / Legal under certain circumstances / Indonesian citizens who enlist in a foreign military without permission from the president will lose their citizenship. [115]
Israel / Legal under certain circumstances / Israeli law has a provision forbidding citizens from joining a foreign military, with a potential punishment of up to three years in prison. This is not applicable if the State of Israel has an agreement with the foreign country in question. It is publicly unknown if there is an agreement with Ukraine, Israel's Foreign Ministry would not comment further. It is not illegal for a foreign country to recruit people in Israel. [116]
Italy / Unclear / Organizations who enlist for foreign armies are illegal, but there are no provisions for citizens who take part. [117][original research?]
Japan / Unclear / Japan discourages its citizens from enlisting and the legality of Japanese citizens enlisting is unclear under Japanese law. [118]
Kosovo / Illegal / It is illegal for Kosovo citizens to enlist in the International Legion under Kosovo law. [119]
Latvia / Legal under certain circumstances / Latvia allows its citizens to enlist in the International Legion, if the person is not serving to national guard or national army. [101]
Moldova / Unclear / Moldova discourages its citizens from enlisting into the legion. [120]
Montenegro / Illegal / It is illegal for Montenegrin citizens to enlist in the International Legion under Montenegrin law. [121]
Netherlands / Legal under certain circumstances / The Netherlands discourages its citizens from enlisting and it is illegal for active-duty Dutch soldiers to enlist in the International Legion under Dutch law. [122]
New Zealand / Legal / New Zealand discourages its citizens from enlisting. However, it is legal for New Zealanders to enlist in the International Legion under New Zealand law. [123]
Nigeria / Illegal / Nigeria bars its citizens from enlisting in the International Legion. [94]
North Macedonia / Illegal / It is illegal for Macedonian citizens to enlist in the International Legion under Macedonian law. [119]
Norway / Legal / Norwegian citizens can legally enlist in the International Legion under Norwegian law. The Norwegian government reminds about dangers, rules and responsibilities. [124]
Pakistan / Unclear / Pakistan discourages its citizens from enlisting in the International Legion. [125]
Poland / Legal under certain circumstances / Polish citizens who want to enlist in the International Legion, or any other foreign army, must receive the approval of the Polish Minister of National Defense. [126]
Portugal / Legal / Although no law prohibits the Portuguese citizens from fighting for the International Legion, the Portuguese government does not encourage any citizen to do it. [127]
Romania / Legal / No law prohibits the Romanian citizens from fighting for the International Legion. The Romanian government does not encourage any citizen to do it, but does not discourage either. Local media glorifies those who went to fight. [128]
Russia / Illegal / Russia has stated foreign fighters (i.e. Russians fighting for Ukraine) are unlawful combatants entitled to no protection under the Geneva Conventions, captured foreign fighters will not be given prisoner of war status, and captured foreign fighters will be prosecuted as mercenaries. [129]
Senegal / Illegal / It is illegal for Senegalese citizens to enlist in the International Legion under Senegalese law. [130]
Serbia / Illegal / It is illegal for Serbian citizens to enlist in the International Legion under Serbian law. [131]
Singapore / Illegal / It is illegal for Singaporean citizens to enlist in the International Legion under Singaporean law. [132]
Slovakia / Legal under certain circumstances / Slovakian citizens who want to join the International Legion must obtain a permit from the Slovak Republic before joining. [133]
South Africa / Unclear / The legality of enlisting in the International Legion is unclear under South African law. [134]
South Korea / Illegal / It is illegal for South Korean citizens to enlist in the International Legion under South Korean law. [135]
Spain / Legal under certain circumstances / Any Spaniard who is neither a soldier nor a member of the Security Corps and Forces may legally enlist in the International Legion. [136]
Sweden / Legal / There are no legal barriers to Swedish citizens volunteering in another country's military. However, members of the Swedish Armed Forces who do so risk losing their jobs, as they are deemed to be better needed at home. [137][138]
Switzerland / Illegal / It is illegal for Swiss citizens to enlist in the International Legion under Swiss law. [139]
Taiwan / Unclear / The government of the Republic of China discourages its citizens from enlisting. [140]
Thailand / Legal / Thailand discourages its citizens from enlisting. However, it is legal for Thai citizens to enlist under Thai law. [118][141]
Turkey / Unclear / Turkey has refused to comment on its citizens enlisting in the International Legion. [119]
United Kingdom / Illegal but unenforced / It is illegal for citizens of the United Kingdom to enlist in the International Legion under the Foreign Enlistment Act 1870. However, the last prosecution for violating the law was in 1896 and the government has not threatened its enforcement since the Spanish Civil War. Then Foreign Secretary Liz Truss made a public announcement in 2022 that the UK would support British citizens who choose to enlist, although the comment was later retracted and it was clarified that the government would only support those who have combat experience and are not serving members of the British Armed Forces. [101][103]
United States / Unclear / The United States discourages its citizens from enlisting in the International Legion. American law prohibits "a group organized as a military expedition from departing from the United States to take action as a military force against a nation with whom the United States is at peace", but does not "prevent individuals from leaving the United States to fight for a cause in which they believed." [142]
Uzbekistan / Illegal / It is illegal for Uzbek citizens to enlist in the International Legion. [125]
Vietnam / Illegal / It is illegal for Vietnamese citizens to enlist in the International Legion. Anyone who do will face a prison sentence of 5–15 years, according to Article 425 of the 2015 Vietnamese Penal Code.[143] [100]
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See also
• Foreign fighters in the Russo-Ukrainian War
• International Brigades
• International Freedom Battalion
• Ukrainian volunteer battalions
Notes
1. Ukrainian: Інтернаціональний легіон територіальної оборони України, romanized: Internatsionalnyi lehion terytorialnoi oborony Ukrainy
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See also
• Foreign fighters in the Russo-Ukrainian War
• International Brigades
• International Freedom Battalion
• Ukrainian volunteer battalions
Notes
1. Ukrainian: Інтернаціональний легіон територіальної оборони України, romanized: Internatsionalnyi lehion terytorialnoi oborony Ukrainy
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Son of suspect speaks after apparent Trump assassination attempt in Florida: Oran Routh says dad, accused of targeting ex-president for unknown motivations, was passionate about Ukraine cause
by Ramon Antonio Vargas
The Guardian
Mon 16 Sep 2024 07.52 EDT
The son of the man accused of trying to assassinate Donald Trump at his Florida golf course on Sunday said his father had traveled to Ukraine and volunteered to provide what the son described as “humanitarian” aid to troops defending the country from Russian forces that invaded in 2022.
A source with direct knowledge of the investigation confirmed to the Guardian that the suspect in Sunday’s case is 58-year-old Ryan Wesley Routh – though law enforcement had not officially named him and there was no immediate indication of a motive.
His son, Oran Routh, repeatedly said he had not been able to immediately speak to his father or get information about the accusations against him, so he did not want to talk on his behalf.
But he also described his father as passionate about the Ukraine cause.
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Ryan Wesley Routh speaking during an interview at a rally to call for more international help for Ukraine. Photograph: AFPTV/AFP/Getty Images
“My dad went over there and saw people fucking fighting and dying,” the younger Routh said during a brief telephone call when asked about his father. “He … tried to make sure shit was cool, and shit was not cool.”
Referring to the former president, who days earlier at the presidential debate would not answer whether he wanted Ukraine to win its war against Russia, Oran Routh said: “Meanwhile, this guy’s sitting behind his fucking desk, not doing a goddamn thing.”
A review of posts on Twitter/X associated with an account under Ryan Routh’s name also show Ukraine was an important cause to him. Two posts on that account from August 2023 addressed Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy. One said Routh was in Kyiv and wanted to create a tent city for foreigners in a local park in hopes that it would prompt more people from abroad to “raise great support and equipment”.
The other suggested that Zelenskiy ask Congress to put all members of the US military on paid leave “so they can fight as civilians in Ukraine”.
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Ryan Wesley Routh talks about 'standing up' for Ukraine in 2022 interview – video
A third post from December also expressed concern for Haiti, which has been dealing with violent civil unrest.
Trump mentioned both Ukraine and Haiti in his recent debate with Kamala Harris, the Democratic nominee for the 5 November White House race.
With respect to the former country, the Republican nominee would only say he wanted Ukraine’s war with Russia “to stop”. But he made it a point to avoid saying he wanted Ukraine to triumph, fueling concerns that a second Trump presidency could suspend US military support to those defending the country.
Asked what he would tell his father if he could speak to him, Oran Routh said: “I know the discourse isn’t working, but we still need to stick to the discourse.”
He then politely excused himself from the conversation to try to find out more information about his father’s arrest on Sunday.
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Bodycam footage shows arrest of suspected Trump shooter – video
In a separate interview with CNN on Sunday, Oran Routh also called Ryan “a loving and caring father” and an “honest hardworking man”.
“I don’t know what has happened in Florida, and I hope things have just been blown out of proportion,” he said.
Online voter registration records show a man with the same name and age as Ryan Routh cast his ballot as a Democrat in North Carolina for the state’s presidential primaries in March.
However, many on X noted how the political views espoused by the account under Routh’s name were not exclusively pro-Democrat. The account described voting for Trump when he won the presidency in 2016 and expressed support for a White House ticket combining the unsuccessful Republican presidential primary contenders Vivek Ramaswamy and Nikki Haley.
The account’s most recent post was addressed to Harris, timed in between Trump’s failed 13 July assassination at a political rally in Pennsylvania and when she replaced Joe Biden at the top of the Democratic ticket after the president opted to halt his re-election campaign. The post said the vice-president and Biden should visit two spectators wounded and attend the funeral of a rally-goer slain at the shooting before the attacker was shot dead by a Secret Service sniper.
“Show the world what compassion and humanity is all about,” said the post, while adding that “Trump will never do anything for them.”
Sunday’s suspect was reported to have put the muzzle of a rifle through a fence in a wooded area at Trump International golf club in West Palm Beach, Florida, on Sunday afternoon.
Trump was golfing there at the time. An agent spotted the rifle and fired, prompting the suspect to flee before he was arrested in a neighboring county.
Hugo Lowell contributed reporting
by Ramon Antonio Vargas
The Guardian
Mon 16 Sep 2024 07.52 EDT
Online voter registration records show a man with the same name and age as Ryan Routh cast his ballot as a Democrat in North Carolina for the state’s presidential primaries in March.
However, many on X noted how the political views espoused by the account under Routh’s name were not exclusively pro-Democrat. The account described voting for Trump when he won the presidency in 2016 and expressed support for a White House ticket combining the unsuccessful Republican presidential primary contenders Vivek Ramaswamy and Nikki Haley.
The son of the man accused of trying to assassinate Donald Trump at his Florida golf course on Sunday said his father had traveled to Ukraine and volunteered to provide what the son described as “humanitarian” aid to troops defending the country from Russian forces that invaded in 2022.
A source with direct knowledge of the investigation confirmed to the Guardian that the suspect in Sunday’s case is 58-year-old Ryan Wesley Routh – though law enforcement had not officially named him and there was no immediate indication of a motive.
His son, Oran Routh, repeatedly said he had not been able to immediately speak to his father or get information about the accusations against him, so he did not want to talk on his behalf.
But he also described his father as passionate about the Ukraine cause.
[x]
Ryan Wesley Routh speaking during an interview at a rally to call for more international help for Ukraine. Photograph: AFPTV/AFP/Getty Images
“My dad went over there and saw people fucking fighting and dying,” the younger Routh said during a brief telephone call when asked about his father. “He … tried to make sure shit was cool, and shit was not cool.”
Referring to the former president, who days earlier at the presidential debate would not answer whether he wanted Ukraine to win its war against Russia, Oran Routh said: “Meanwhile, this guy’s sitting behind his fucking desk, not doing a goddamn thing.”
A review of posts on Twitter/X associated with an account under Ryan Routh’s name also show Ukraine was an important cause to him. Two posts on that account from August 2023 addressed Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy. One said Routh was in Kyiv and wanted to create a tent city for foreigners in a local park in hopes that it would prompt more people from abroad to “raise great support and equipment”.
The other suggested that Zelenskiy ask Congress to put all members of the US military on paid leave “so they can fight as civilians in Ukraine”.
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Ryan Wesley Routh talks about 'standing up' for Ukraine in 2022 interview – video
A third post from December also expressed concern for Haiti, which has been dealing with violent civil unrest.
Trump mentioned both Ukraine and Haiti in his recent debate with Kamala Harris, the Democratic nominee for the 5 November White House race.
With respect to the former country, the Republican nominee would only say he wanted Ukraine’s war with Russia “to stop”. But he made it a point to avoid saying he wanted Ukraine to triumph, fueling concerns that a second Trump presidency could suspend US military support to those defending the country.
Asked what he would tell his father if he could speak to him, Oran Routh said: “I know the discourse isn’t working, but we still need to stick to the discourse.”
He then politely excused himself from the conversation to try to find out more information about his father’s arrest on Sunday.
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Bodycam footage shows arrest of suspected Trump shooter – video
In a separate interview with CNN on Sunday, Oran Routh also called Ryan “a loving and caring father” and an “honest hardworking man”.
“I don’t know what has happened in Florida, and I hope things have just been blown out of proportion,” he said.
Online voter registration records show a man with the same name and age as Ryan Routh cast his ballot as a Democrat in North Carolina for the state’s presidential primaries in March.
However, many on X noted how the political views espoused by the account under Routh’s name were not exclusively pro-Democrat. The account described voting for Trump when he won the presidency in 2016 and expressed support for a White House ticket combining the unsuccessful Republican presidential primary contenders Vivek Ramaswamy and Nikki Haley.
The account’s most recent post was addressed to Harris, timed in between Trump’s failed 13 July assassination at a political rally in Pennsylvania and when she replaced Joe Biden at the top of the Democratic ticket after the president opted to halt his re-election campaign. The post said the vice-president and Biden should visit two spectators wounded and attend the funeral of a rally-goer slain at the shooting before the attacker was shot dead by a Secret Service sniper.
“Show the world what compassion and humanity is all about,” said the post, while adding that “Trump will never do anything for them.”
Sunday’s suspect was reported to have put the muzzle of a rifle through a fence in a wooded area at Trump International golf club in West Palm Beach, Florida, on Sunday afternoon.
Trump was golfing there at the time. An agent spotted the rifle and fired, prompting the suspect to flee before he was arrested in a neighboring county.
Hugo Lowell contributed reporting
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What to Know About Ryan Routh, Charged With Attempting to Assassinate Trump
by Chad de Guzman and Nik Popli
Time Magazine
Updated: September 25, 2024 1:55 AM EDT | Originally published: September 16, 2024 3:00 AM EDT
A photo posted last year by Ryan Routh on LinkedIn with a caption that said he was in Kyiv “to provide soldiers for the war effort.”
Ryan Wesley Routh was charged by a grand jury on Sept. 24 with attempting to assassinate former President Donald Trump, adding to gun-related charges already leveled against him for his alleged involvement in a Sept. 15 incident at Trump’s golf course in West Palm Beach, Fla.
Although the investigation is still underway, social media posts and past interviews paint the 58-year-old alleged gunman as a vocal Trump supporter-turned-critic who was particularly passionate about defending Ukraine in its war against Russia and sought to recruit volunteers to fight in Ukraine. Public records show he also has a history of criminal convictions, some of which would have barred him from owning a gun.
Routh was taken into police custody on Sept. 15 after a Secret Service agent saw a man allegedly crouched outside Trump’s golf course with a rifle while the Republican presidential nominee was playing about 400 yards away. After Secret Service personnel fired shots, the suspect fled and Routh was later arrested.
The latest indictment adds three new counts—attempting to assassinate a major presidential candidate, possessing a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence, and assaulting a federal officer—to the charges outlined in an earlier federal criminal complaint: possessing a firearm despite being a felon and possessing a firearm with a wiped-out serial number. The maximum prison sentences, if convicted, on each charge, respectively, are: up to life, at least seven years, up to 20 years, up to 15 years, and up to five years. Routh, who is represented by a public defender, remains in custody without bail.
Here’s what is known so far about Routh.
Hawaii-based construction worker
Routh, according to a LinkedIn profile, has since 2018 been the owner of Camp Box Honolulu, which according to the company’s website specializes in constructing mobile and towable units, storage sheds, off-grid bathrooms, and other small structures across the island of Oahu. According to the LinkedIn profile, Routh focused on “simple economical structures to help address the highest homelessness rate in the United States,” and a 2019 report in the Honolulu Star-Advertiser said he donated a tiny house for the homeless.
Routh previously lived in North Carolina and was a 1998 graduate of North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, according to LinkedIn.
A criminal record
Routh has had several run-ins with the law over the years.
In 2002, Routh was charged and convicted in North Carolina for possession of a weapon of mass destruction, Special Agent in Charge Jeffrey Veltri of the FBI Miami Field Office said in a press conference on Sept. 16. Veltri also said Routh was the subject of a closed investigation over a 2019 tip to the FBI alleging that he was a felon in possession of a firearm. (The FBI was unable to verify the complaint and passed the info to local law enforcement in Hawaii.)
Veltri also confirmed that Routh “had numerous felony charges for stolen goods” from 1997 to 2010. According to the North Carolina Department of Adult Correction, a man with his name and date of birth was convicted several times for a number of offenses including multiple counts of possessing stolen goods in 2010. There is no record of time spent incarcerated, according to the state records, which indicated Routh was sentenced to probation for each conviction.
In 2003, he was convicted of consolidated charges including hit and run, carrying a concealed weapon, resisting an officer, and possessing a weapon of mass destruction in 2002. Local newspaper Greensboro News & Record reported at the time that Routh, then 36 and whose drivers’ license had previously been revoked, was pulled over during a traffic stop but put his hand on a firearm and drove away to a store, where he barricaded himself for three hours. The “weapon of mass destruction” charge, the paper reported, referred to a fully automatic machine gun.
According to the Honolulu Star-Advertiser, Hawaii police have records of four interactions with Routh, including being removed from a property in 2019 for alleged squatting and reporting that he was an assault victim in 2021, when he claimed that a resident of a property that he was working at as a handyman punched him in the nose (no arrests were made).
He once supported Trump
Routh’s politics do not appear consistently aligned with one party or the other.
According to public voter records at the North Carolina State Board of Elections, Routh was registered as an unaffiliated voter without a party in Guilford County in 2012. In March 2024, he voted in the state’s Democratic primary.
Federal Election Commission filings show that Routh donated more than $140 to Act Blue, the Democratic fundraising platform, between September 2019 and March 2020.
Routh said he voted for Trump in 2016, according to a June 2020 post on his X (formerly Twitter) account, which has since been suspended: “@realDonaldTrump While you were my choice in 2106 [sic], I and the world hoped that president Trump would be different and better than the candidate, but we all were greatly disappointment and it seems you are getting worse and devolving,” he wrote. “I will be glad when you gone.”
Another X post on Jan. 8, 2024, shows that Routh called on then Republican primary candidate Nikki Haley to team up with other Republican primary candidate Vivek Ramaswamy to “create a winning ticket now that we all can get behind.” Other previous posts showed support for former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, a Democrat turned Trump supporter.
When Trump was shot during a previous assassination attempt at a rally in Pennsylvania in July, Routh posted on X tagging President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris urging them to visit the rally-goer victims: “You and Biden should visit the injured people in the hospital from the Trump rally and attend the funeral of the murdered fireman. Trump will never do anything for them.”
Routh had previously thought about the idea of a Trump assassination in what appears to be a self-published e-book in 2023. In a section about Iran, Routh apologized to the Middle East nation for having previously voted for Trump, whom Routh described as a “retarded child” and said “ended up being brainless” for dismantling the U.S.-Iran nuclear deal. “I am man enough to say that I misjudged and made a terrible mistake,” Routh wrote. “You are free to assassinate Trump as well as me for that error in judgment.”
“No one here in the U.S. seems to have the balls to put natural selection to work,” he added, “or even unnatural selection.”
A website—voteryanrouth.com—appears to have been set up in early July with a series of blog posts outlining a potential run for Honolulu mayor, in which the admin (whose phone number and self-descriptions match those of Routh) shared his musings on more than 60 topics from homelessness (“When I visit the dog quarantine facility I think to myself that I could live in one of those kennels, as they are nice. We provide better facilities for our dogs than we do for our homeless. We cannot be afraid to provide minimalist shelter for those that cannot afford a place”) to “global issues” (“Our presidents must befriend leaders of Iran, North Korea, China, Russia and any rogue countries such as Myanmar to create partnerships to slowly influence their policies towards making their citizens lives better”).
Appears to have planned the attack
Prosecutors wrote in a detention memo that a witness received a box several months ago from Routh but did not open it until after hearing of the attempt on Trump’s life. Upon opening, the unidentified witness found ammunition, a metal pipe, building materials, tools, four phones, and various letters.
One letter, which the witness photographed and was included in the memo, was addressed “Dear World,” and read: “This was an assassination attempt on Donald Trump but I am so sorry I failed you. I tried my best and gave it all the gumption I could muster. It is up to you now to finish the job; and I will offer $150,000 to whomever can complete the job.”
Prosecutors also pointed to cell-phone records that showed Routh traveled from Greensboro, N.C., to West Palm Beach on Aug. 14, and that between Aug. 18 and the date of the assassination attempt, Routh’s phone was detected near the golf course and near Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence.
Prosecutors said that in Routh’s vehicle, authorities found a handwritten list of dates and places that Trump was present or was expected to appear, as well as a passport and six phones, one of which contained “a Google search of how to travel from Palm Beach County to Mexico.”
Got involved in the war in Ukraine
Posts on Routh’s Facebook and X accounts—both of which have been taken down—displayed strong support for Ukraine in its war against Russia, and he even appears to have traveled across the world to support the effort, for which he once posted that he was willing to “fight and die.”
“We need to burn the Kremlin to the ground and put an end to Putin and Russia,” he wrote on X, referring to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
A since-taken down 2022 GoFundMe page by Hawaii-based Kathleen Shaffer—identified on the fundraising request as Routh’s fiancée (and reported to share an address with Routh in Kaaawa, Hawaii, according to the Honolulu Star-Advertiser)—said Routh had gone to Kyiv in April of that year and that he planned “on staying for at least 90 days.”
In an interview from Ukraine with Newsweek Romania in June 2022, Routh explained why he had gone to the embattled country himself. “To me, a lot of the other conflicts are gray, but this conflict is definitely black and white,” Routh said. “This is about good versus evil. This is a storybook, you know, any movie we’ve ever watched, this is definitely evil against good.”
Routh spoke with Semafor in March 2023, when he identified himself as the self-appointed head of the International Volunteer Center, a group he set up in Ukraine to connect foreigners with military units and aid groups, and he complained of Ukraine’s reluctance to admit foreign soldiers. Routh also spoke to the New York Times in 2023 about potentially using illegal means to recruit Afghan soldiers who left the Taliban to join the fight in Ukraine. The Times reporter has since recounted that Routh said he never fought himself in the conflict because he felt he was too old and has no military experience. Ukraine’s International Legion, a military unit commonly known as the foreign legion, said in a statement on Sept. 16 that Routh had “no relation to” and “has never served” in the unit. “Rumors disseminated in certain media are not true.”
Authorities were warned about him
According to a report on Sept. 16 in the Wall Street Journal, authorities had been flagged about Routh’s erratic behavior in the past.
Chelsea Walsh, a nurse from West Palm Beach who met Routh several times in Kyiv in 2022, said that among foreign volunteers he originally came off as an eccentric but that his threats of violence against world leaders like Putin and general “antisocial traits” worried her so much that when she returned to the U.S. in June of that year, she spoke to a Customs and Border Protection officer for an hour at Washington’s Dulles airport to convey her concerns. She identified Routh as the most dangerous American she’d encountered during her month-and-a-half in Ukraine, according to the Journal. Walsh said she filed an online report with the FBI and Interpol after she heard in 2023 that Routh was attempting to recruit Syrian refugees to fight in Ukraine, but she never heard back from either agency.
The Journal also reported that Sarah Adams, a former CIA officer who helped coordinate aid groups in Ukraine, warned aid groups to “Beware of American Ryan Routh,” who she said had developed a reputation as a “fraudster” and “kind of a whack job.” Aid groups banned Routh from their Signal (private messaging) groups, according to Adams, and notified the U.S. State Department amid concerns that he might be engaging in human trafficking or immigration fraud.
‘Doesn’t sound like the man I know’
Relatives and acquaintances of Routh have spoken out to say that they were surprised by the news of his alleged involvement in the shooting at Trump’s golf course on Sept. 15.
In a text message to CNN, Routh’s son Oran described his father as “loving and caring” and an “honest hardworking man.” The younger Routh added: “I don’t know what’s happened in Florida, and I hope things have just been blown out of proportion, because from the little I’ve heard it doesn’t sound like the man I know to do anything crazy, much less violent.”
Speaking to the Guardian, Oran Routh described his father’s passion for Ukraine: “My dad went over there and saw people f---ing fighting and dying.” Ryan Routh, Oran said, “tried to make sure shit was cool, and shit was not cool.” Meanwhile, he added of Trump, “this guy’s sitting behind his f---ing desk, not doing a goddamn thing.” Asked what he would say to his father now, the younger Routh responded: “I know the discourse isn’t working, but we still need to stick to the discourse.”
A woman who lived next door to Routh in Greensboro, N.C., and said she’s known him for nearly two decades told Fox8 WGHP that he was an unusual character but that she did not expect him to be involved in an attempted assassination of Trump.
The woman, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said Routh owned many guns and that “a lot of people were afraid of him back in the day,” but she added: “Him, I mean, trying to shoot Trump. That’s a lot. I would have never guessed, and I would have swore up and down, no, that’s not him. … I just can’t believe it. I mean, if I didn’t see it with my own eyes, I mean the pictures and stuff and all, then I wouldn’t be able to believe that.”
Routh’s neighbor in Hawaii, David Stant, told the Honolulu Star-Advertiser upon hearing about the incident that it was “crazy, super crazy” and that Routh was “real mellow, low-key … quiet.”
Decades ago, Routh had been profiled for his good deeds: the Greensboro News & Record in 1991 published a story that called then-25-year-old Ryan Routh “a super citizen if not a super hero,” who had been awarded a Law Enforcement Oscar by the Greensboro chapter of the International Union of Police Association for helping to confront a rapist and assist in his arrest.
by Chad de Guzman and Nik Popli
Time Magazine
Updated: September 25, 2024 1:55 AM EDT | Originally published: September 16, 2024 3:00 AM EDT
A photo posted last year by Ryan Routh on LinkedIn with a caption that said he was in Kyiv “to provide soldiers for the war effort.”
Ryan Wesley Routh was charged by a grand jury on Sept. 24 with attempting to assassinate former President Donald Trump, adding to gun-related charges already leveled against him for his alleged involvement in a Sept. 15 incident at Trump’s golf course in West Palm Beach, Fla.
Although the investigation is still underway, social media posts and past interviews paint the 58-year-old alleged gunman as a vocal Trump supporter-turned-critic who was particularly passionate about defending Ukraine in its war against Russia and sought to recruit volunteers to fight in Ukraine. Public records show he also has a history of criminal convictions, some of which would have barred him from owning a gun.
Routh was taken into police custody on Sept. 15 after a Secret Service agent saw a man allegedly crouched outside Trump’s golf course with a rifle while the Republican presidential nominee was playing about 400 yards away. After Secret Service personnel fired shots, the suspect fled and Routh was later arrested.
The latest indictment adds three new counts—attempting to assassinate a major presidential candidate, possessing a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence, and assaulting a federal officer—to the charges outlined in an earlier federal criminal complaint: possessing a firearm despite being a felon and possessing a firearm with a wiped-out serial number. The maximum prison sentences, if convicted, on each charge, respectively, are: up to life, at least seven years, up to 20 years, up to 15 years, and up to five years. Routh, who is represented by a public defender, remains in custody without bail.
Here’s what is known so far about Routh.
Hawaii-based construction worker
Routh, according to a LinkedIn profile, has since 2018 been the owner of Camp Box Honolulu, which according to the company’s website specializes in constructing mobile and towable units, storage sheds, off-grid bathrooms, and other small structures across the island of Oahu. According to the LinkedIn profile, Routh focused on “simple economical structures to help address the highest homelessness rate in the United States,” and a 2019 report in the Honolulu Star-Advertiser said he donated a tiny house for the homeless.
Routh previously lived in North Carolina and was a 1998 graduate of North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, according to LinkedIn.
A criminal record
Routh has had several run-ins with the law over the years.
In 2002, Routh was charged and convicted in North Carolina for possession of a weapon of mass destruction, Special Agent in Charge Jeffrey Veltri of the FBI Miami Field Office said in a press conference on Sept. 16. Veltri also said Routh was the subject of a closed investigation over a 2019 tip to the FBI alleging that he was a felon in possession of a firearm. (The FBI was unable to verify the complaint and passed the info to local law enforcement in Hawaii.)
Veltri also confirmed that Routh “had numerous felony charges for stolen goods” from 1997 to 2010. According to the North Carolina Department of Adult Correction, a man with his name and date of birth was convicted several times for a number of offenses including multiple counts of possessing stolen goods in 2010. There is no record of time spent incarcerated, according to the state records, which indicated Routh was sentenced to probation for each conviction.
In 2003, he was convicted of consolidated charges including hit and run, carrying a concealed weapon, resisting an officer, and possessing a weapon of mass destruction in 2002. Local newspaper Greensboro News & Record reported at the time that Routh, then 36 and whose drivers’ license had previously been revoked, was pulled over during a traffic stop but put his hand on a firearm and drove away to a store, where he barricaded himself for three hours. The “weapon of mass destruction” charge, the paper reported, referred to a fully automatic machine gun.
According to the Honolulu Star-Advertiser, Hawaii police have records of four interactions with Routh, including being removed from a property in 2019 for alleged squatting and reporting that he was an assault victim in 2021, when he claimed that a resident of a property that he was working at as a handyman punched him in the nose (no arrests were made).
He once supported Trump
Routh’s politics do not appear consistently aligned with one party or the other.
According to public voter records at the North Carolina State Board of Elections, Routh was registered as an unaffiliated voter without a party in Guilford County in 2012. In March 2024, he voted in the state’s Democratic primary.
Federal Election Commission filings show that Routh donated more than $140 to Act Blue, the Democratic fundraising platform, between September 2019 and March 2020.
Routh said he voted for Trump in 2016, according to a June 2020 post on his X (formerly Twitter) account, which has since been suspended: “@realDonaldTrump While you were my choice in 2106 [sic], I and the world hoped that president Trump would be different and better than the candidate, but we all were greatly disappointment and it seems you are getting worse and devolving,” he wrote. “I will be glad when you gone.”
Another X post on Jan. 8, 2024, shows that Routh called on then Republican primary candidate Nikki Haley to team up with other Republican primary candidate Vivek Ramaswamy to “create a winning ticket now that we all can get behind.” Other previous posts showed support for former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, a Democrat turned Trump supporter.
When Trump was shot during a previous assassination attempt at a rally in Pennsylvania in July, Routh posted on X tagging President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris urging them to visit the rally-goer victims: “You and Biden should visit the injured people in the hospital from the Trump rally and attend the funeral of the murdered fireman. Trump will never do anything for them.”
Routh had previously thought about the idea of a Trump assassination in what appears to be a self-published e-book in 2023. In a section about Iran, Routh apologized to the Middle East nation for having previously voted for Trump, whom Routh described as a “retarded child” and said “ended up being brainless” for dismantling the U.S.-Iran nuclear deal. “I am man enough to say that I misjudged and made a terrible mistake,” Routh wrote. “You are free to assassinate Trump as well as me for that error in judgment.”
“No one here in the U.S. seems to have the balls to put natural selection to work,” he added, “or even unnatural selection.”
A website—voteryanrouth.com—appears to have been set up in early July with a series of blog posts outlining a potential run for Honolulu mayor, in which the admin (whose phone number and self-descriptions match those of Routh) shared his musings on more than 60 topics from homelessness (“When I visit the dog quarantine facility I think to myself that I could live in one of those kennels, as they are nice. We provide better facilities for our dogs than we do for our homeless. We cannot be afraid to provide minimalist shelter for those that cannot afford a place”) to “global issues” (“Our presidents must befriend leaders of Iran, North Korea, China, Russia and any rogue countries such as Myanmar to create partnerships to slowly influence their policies towards making their citizens lives better”).
Appears to have planned the attack
Prosecutors wrote in a detention memo that a witness received a box several months ago from Routh but did not open it until after hearing of the attempt on Trump’s life. Upon opening, the unidentified witness found ammunition, a metal pipe, building materials, tools, four phones, and various letters.
One letter, which the witness photographed and was included in the memo, was addressed “Dear World,” and read: “This was an assassination attempt on Donald Trump but I am so sorry I failed you. I tried my best and gave it all the gumption I could muster. It is up to you now to finish the job; and I will offer $150,000 to whomever can complete the job.”
Prosecutors also pointed to cell-phone records that showed Routh traveled from Greensboro, N.C., to West Palm Beach on Aug. 14, and that between Aug. 18 and the date of the assassination attempt, Routh’s phone was detected near the golf course and near Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence.
Prosecutors said that in Routh’s vehicle, authorities found a handwritten list of dates and places that Trump was present or was expected to appear, as well as a passport and six phones, one of which contained “a Google search of how to travel from Palm Beach County to Mexico.”
Got involved in the war in Ukraine
Posts on Routh’s Facebook and X accounts—both of which have been taken down—displayed strong support for Ukraine in its war against Russia, and he even appears to have traveled across the world to support the effort, for which he once posted that he was willing to “fight and die.”
“We need to burn the Kremlin to the ground and put an end to Putin and Russia,” he wrote on X, referring to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
A since-taken down 2022 GoFundMe page by Hawaii-based Kathleen Shaffer—identified on the fundraising request as Routh’s fiancée (and reported to share an address with Routh in Kaaawa, Hawaii, according to the Honolulu Star-Advertiser)—said Routh had gone to Kyiv in April of that year and that he planned “on staying for at least 90 days.”
In an interview from Ukraine with Newsweek Romania in June 2022, Routh explained why he had gone to the embattled country himself. “To me, a lot of the other conflicts are gray, but this conflict is definitely black and white,” Routh said. “This is about good versus evil. This is a storybook, you know, any movie we’ve ever watched, this is definitely evil against good.”
Routh spoke with Semafor in March 2023, when he identified himself as the self-appointed head of the International Volunteer Center, a group he set up in Ukraine to connect foreigners with military units and aid groups, and he complained of Ukraine’s reluctance to admit foreign soldiers. Routh also spoke to the New York Times in 2023 about potentially using illegal means to recruit Afghan soldiers who left the Taliban to join the fight in Ukraine. The Times reporter has since recounted that Routh said he never fought himself in the conflict because he felt he was too old and has no military experience. Ukraine’s International Legion, a military unit commonly known as the foreign legion, said in a statement on Sept. 16 that Routh had “no relation to” and “has never served” in the unit. “Rumors disseminated in certain media are not true.”
Authorities were warned about him
According to a report on Sept. 16 in the Wall Street Journal, authorities had been flagged about Routh’s erratic behavior in the past.
Chelsea Walsh, a nurse from West Palm Beach who met Routh several times in Kyiv in 2022, said that among foreign volunteers he originally came off as an eccentric but that his threats of violence against world leaders like Putin and general “antisocial traits” worried her so much that when she returned to the U.S. in June of that year, she spoke to a Customs and Border Protection officer for an hour at Washington’s Dulles airport to convey her concerns. She identified Routh as the most dangerous American she’d encountered during her month-and-a-half in Ukraine, according to the Journal. Walsh said she filed an online report with the FBI and Interpol after she heard in 2023 that Routh was attempting to recruit Syrian refugees to fight in Ukraine, but she never heard back from either agency.
The Journal also reported that Sarah Adams, a former CIA officer who helped coordinate aid groups in Ukraine, warned aid groups to “Beware of American Ryan Routh,” who she said had developed a reputation as a “fraudster” and “kind of a whack job.” Aid groups banned Routh from their Signal (private messaging) groups, according to Adams, and notified the U.S. State Department amid concerns that he might be engaging in human trafficking or immigration fraud.
‘Doesn’t sound like the man I know’
Relatives and acquaintances of Routh have spoken out to say that they were surprised by the news of his alleged involvement in the shooting at Trump’s golf course on Sept. 15.
In a text message to CNN, Routh’s son Oran described his father as “loving and caring” and an “honest hardworking man.” The younger Routh added: “I don’t know what’s happened in Florida, and I hope things have just been blown out of proportion, because from the little I’ve heard it doesn’t sound like the man I know to do anything crazy, much less violent.”
Speaking to the Guardian, Oran Routh described his father’s passion for Ukraine: “My dad went over there and saw people f---ing fighting and dying.” Ryan Routh, Oran said, “tried to make sure shit was cool, and shit was not cool.” Meanwhile, he added of Trump, “this guy’s sitting behind his f---ing desk, not doing a goddamn thing.” Asked what he would say to his father now, the younger Routh responded: “I know the discourse isn’t working, but we still need to stick to the discourse.”
A woman who lived next door to Routh in Greensboro, N.C., and said she’s known him for nearly two decades told Fox8 WGHP that he was an unusual character but that she did not expect him to be involved in an attempted assassination of Trump.
The woman, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said Routh owned many guns and that “a lot of people were afraid of him back in the day,” but she added: “Him, I mean, trying to shoot Trump. That’s a lot. I would have never guessed, and I would have swore up and down, no, that’s not him. … I just can’t believe it. I mean, if I didn’t see it with my own eyes, I mean the pictures and stuff and all, then I wouldn’t be able to believe that.”
Routh’s neighbor in Hawaii, David Stant, told the Honolulu Star-Advertiser upon hearing about the incident that it was “crazy, super crazy” and that Routh was “real mellow, low-key … quiet.”
Decades ago, Routh had been profiled for his good deeds: the Greensboro News & Record in 1991 published a story that called then-25-year-old Ryan Routh “a super citizen if not a super hero,” who had been awarded a Law Enforcement Oscar by the Greensboro chapter of the International Union of Police Association for helping to confront a rapist and assist in his arrest.
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Rudy Giuliani’s Daughter: Trump Took My Dad From Me. Please Don’t Let Him Take Our Country Too. “Nothing I have experienced prepared me for the very public and relentless implosion of my father’s life,” writes Caroline Giuliani, announcing her support for Kamala Harris.
by Caroline Rose Giuliani
Vanity Fair
September 30, 2024
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New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani with his daughter Caroline Giuliani. By Rick Maiman/Sygma/Getty Images.
I am constantly asking myself how America is back here, even considering the possibility of electing Donald Trump again, after all of the damage he has caused, both in office and since. While Kamala Harris has gained extraordinary momentum by infusing this election with vitality and hope, I worry that too many Americans remain disconnected from the visceral, psychologically draining memory of Trump’s deeply destabilizing presidency. If enough people truly remembered what that chaos felt like, another Trump term wouldn’t even be on the table. But for those open to seeing the bare and unvarnished truth, there are unmistakable reminders of Trump’s destructive trail all around us, and it has broken my heart to watch my dad become one of them.
As Rudy Giuliani’s daughter, I’m unfortunately well-suited to remind Americans of just how calamitous being associated with Trump can be, even for those who are convinced he’s on their side. Watching my dad’s life crumble since he joined forces with Trump has been extraordinarily painful, both on a personal level and because his demise feels linked to a dark force that threatens to once again consume America. Not to disregard individual accountability in the slightest, but it would be naive for us to ignore the fact that many of those closest to Trump have descended into catastrophic downward spirals. If we let Trump back into the driver’s seat this fall, our country will be no exception.
My dad and I have a cartoonishly complicated relationship. But he is still my father, and despite his faults, I love him. I’ve seen him experience surreal heights, and, now, unfathomable lows. The last thing I want to do is hurt him, especially when he’s already down. Plus we never know how much time we have left with our parents. The totality of that makes this the most difficult piece I’ve ever written. Yet this moment and this election are so much bigger than any of us.
From reproductive rights and the economy, to foreign and environmental policy, we need experienced, sane, and fundamentally decent leaders who will fight for us instead of against us—who will safeguard our democracy rather than dismantle it. And as a recently engaged-to-be-married, 35-year-old who hopes to feel more joyous than fearful about the potential of becoming a parent myself, I need to advocate for a future worth bringing children into, which is why I am voicing my adamant support for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz.
I’ll never forget the night my dad told me he was considering becoming Trump’s lawyer. I was with him at the Grand Havana Room, a cigar bar at the top of 666 Fifth Avenue, an address too fitting given the unholy alliance my father was about to enter into.
Surrounded by thick smoke and powerful men, I ugly-cried for a few minutes, then spent the next three hours making my vehement case to my father that he not go down this morally perilous path.
It was extremely rare for my dad to tell me he was going to do anything before actually doing it, so this moment of connection with him also felt like a cosmic opportunity to do my part to limit the spread of Trump’s sinister shadow. I held nothing back. I voiced all of my concerns about Trump’s open racism, rampant misogyny, and total lack of empathy. I even told my dad that I already felt ashamed of my last name whenever I saw headlines connecting him with Trump, and that this escalation would only deepen that feeling. For the rest of that night, I held onto hope that a daughter’s emotional entreaty might actually sway a father.
That fantasy was dispelled the next morning when a news story popped onto my feed: Rudy Giuliani was going to work for Donald Trump. The pit I felt in my stomach then was a warning, but I had no idea how much destruction my father would come to face due to his one-sided fealty to a con-man. Growing up in Gracie Mansion, I always knew I had a privileged life. But a particular set of challenges came along with being Rudy Giuliani’s daughter, and by that point in my life, I had mostly learned how to navigate them.
But nothing I have experienced prepared me for the very public and relentless implosion of my father’s life.
As someone who overcame a deeply ingrained eating disorder and has worked through various other manifestations of anxiety and depression, I’m no stranger to processing complicated feelings. But this new albatross left me floored by a potent mix of fear, anger, confusion, and sadness that often had me crying over my dad, and for him, at the same time. I always saw flaws in my dad that people blinded by his celebrity couldn’t see, but on some level, the absurd scale of his success and notoriety also made it hard to believe that anything could actually take him down. I spent a lot of my life wishing my father had less power. But I never wanted it to happen like this. And selfishly, the deeper my dad gets stuck in the quicksand of his problems, the more fleeting our opportunities to connect as father and daughter become. After months of feeling the type of sorrow that comes from the death of a loved one, it dawned on me that I’ve been grieving the loss of my dad to Trump. I cannot bear to lose our country to him too.
I know that some people may question whether I truly care about my father, since another Trump presidency could theoretically mitigate some of the problems he’s facing. It distresses me to think that my dad might even wonder this. But if you zoom out, Trump being the president was the worst thing that ever happened to my dad, to my family, and to our nation’s modern history. The consequences will only be more severe—and irreversible— a second time around. Thanks to the extremist Supreme Court he stacked, Trump would take office with full immunity: no checks on his power whatsoever. If the president isn’t going to be subject to the law like every other citizen, which remains incomprehensible to me, then our president had better have a moral compass. A 34-time convicted felon who’s been found liable for sexual abuse, tries to steal elections, and demeans people based on their race, sexuality, disability status, and gender falls remarkably short of the bar we must set for ourselves as a country. Fortunately, we have another choice in this election: a life-long public servant who has spent her career upholding justice and fighting for those who cannot fight for themselves.
The Supreme Court’s immunity ruling was a huge blow to the structure of our democracy, and Trump has made it clear that he intends to continue ravaging our noble experiment until there is nothing left of it. The aspiring autocrat has told his supporters that this is the last time they’ll ever have to vote because “it’ll be fixed after that.” There’s no good way to spin that. Whether he means that elections will be fixed, elections will be eradicated, or that the country will be permanently “fixed” due to the demolition of institutions and policies that ensure checks and balances on power, it’s clear that he’s a narcissist in pursuit of authoritarian rule. A democracy by definition cannot be fixed or calcified. It must have the flexibility to change according to the wishes of its people, not the despotic dreams of one. Listening to those wishes, even when it seemed inconceivably late for President Joe Biden to pull out, is exactly what led to Kamala Harris being on the top of the ticket. Her rapid rise is a literal manifestation of citizens’ voices being heard, which is exactly the type of consideration and respect all Americans will get if she is elected.
Beyond the existential importance of this election, I am also voting for Harris because she is the only candidate who cares about my rights as a woman. The reversal of Roe v Wade was a shocking and horrifying “accomplishment” of Trump’s that has already resulted in the unforgivable and unnecessary deaths of innocent women like Amber Nicole Thurman. Seeing Republican state officials enact draconian abortion bans and threaten fertility care is incredibly personal for me. As a woman in my 30s struggling with long-covid-related health issues, there’s a possibility that my soon-to-be husband and I will need to rely on surrogacy or fertility treatments if we want to have children of our own. Having the means to even consider surrogacy is a tremendous privilege that I do not take lightly, but it also stirs up many complex and challenging emotions. So I’ve spent the last couple of years talking to countless women about their fertility journeys. Witnessing their strength has been inspiring, and it has also made it clear that fertility struggles necessitate tremendous courage and grace. So the fact the Roe reversal has given states the leeway to make the IVF process even more uncertain is a disgrace. And hearing Trump flip-flop on the issues of abortion and IVF only makes me trust him less – if that’s even possible – because his lies are so clearly politically motivated. He’s already caused irreparable damage, and I don’t believe for a second that he won’t cause more.
Trump has tried to distance himself from Project 2025, which would “explicitly reject the notion that abortion is health care” and require the Department of Health and Human Services Department to preclude doctors and nurses from being trained to perform abortions, but his insincere denial so clearly stems from his growing political insecurity. Project 2025’s contributors include several high-ranking officials from Trump’s first administration, and one of Project 2025’s authors, Russell Vought, was secretly recorded acknowledging that Trump is in fact “very supportive” of what they do. I believe it, because everything in Project 2025, from eradicating the Department of Education and FEMA, to decimating unions and reinstating schedule F so that the administration can hire and fire government employees for political reasons, is woefully in line with the malfeasance and backsliding that Trump has already proven he stands for. It is a dictator’s playbook—one he didn’t have before. Trump will be much more effective a second time around, and I don’t see how our world can survive it.
We live at a crossroads in history, where the future of not only our democracy but our planet is at stake. Trump’s first-term position on the Climate Crisis was to call it a hoax while stripping away climate regulations and giving the fossil fuel industry everything they wanted and more. His second-term agenda, which we can foresee through his grotesque Project 2025 playbook, will only accelerate the damage he’s already done. My dream of becoming a mom, coupled with the difficult health journey I’ve been on over the last few years, has me constantly grappling with our increasingly toxic and dangerous environment. But I do feel hope. Because Kamala Harris understands the grave danger of climate change. As only the second presidential candidate in history to be endorsed by Scientific American, she’ll be a champion for our children’s futures by reinstating the United States as a member of the Paris Agreement and continuing to fight for renewable energy policy. We’ve seen remarkable progress on this issue under the Biden/Harris Inflation Reduction Act. Trump would roll it all back. Kamala Harris is our only chance for a better future.
Even though the last few years have been some of the most difficult of my life on a personal level, I’m grateful to live in a country that came together once before to fire a burgeoning tyrant. Watching Harris reignite the torch that Biden selflessly passed to her has filled me with optimism and pride. She has the experience, intelligence, and fortitude to lead us to a brighter future, and seeing her hold Trump accountable in the debate only further confirms her ability to defend us from our most dangerous enemies, domestic and foreign. But even with all the incredible momentum the Harris/Walz ticket has generated, we still have to work hard to ensure a victory for our future. We live in a two-party system, and no candidate will appeal to every voter on every issue.
If for whatever reason you choose to sit this election out or lodge a protest-vote for a third-party candidate, make no mistake: you are voting for Donald Trump.
Take it from me, Trump destroys everything he touches. I saw it happen to my family. Don’t let it happen to yours, or to our country. Kamala Harris will guide us into a brighter future, but only if we unite behind her. On November 5th, I’ll be voting for that future. For justice, stability, and democracy. And I sincerely hope you’ll cast your ballot for Kamala Harris, too.
Caroline Rose Giuliani, contributor. Caroline is a Los Angeles-based writer and filmmaker. She seeks to shine a light on stigmatized subjects, such as mental health and sexuality. Her print writing ranges from think pieces to satire, and can be found in Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, McSweeney’s, and more.
by Caroline Rose Giuliani
Vanity Fair
September 30, 2024
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New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani with his daughter Caroline Giuliani. By Rick Maiman/Sygma/Getty Images.
I am constantly asking myself how America is back here, even considering the possibility of electing Donald Trump again, after all of the damage he has caused, both in office and since. While Kamala Harris has gained extraordinary momentum by infusing this election with vitality and hope, I worry that too many Americans remain disconnected from the visceral, psychologically draining memory of Trump’s deeply destabilizing presidency. If enough people truly remembered what that chaos felt like, another Trump term wouldn’t even be on the table. But for those open to seeing the bare and unvarnished truth, there are unmistakable reminders of Trump’s destructive trail all around us, and it has broken my heart to watch my dad become one of them.
As Rudy Giuliani’s daughter, I’m unfortunately well-suited to remind Americans of just how calamitous being associated with Trump can be, even for those who are convinced he’s on their side. Watching my dad’s life crumble since he joined forces with Trump has been extraordinarily painful, both on a personal level and because his demise feels linked to a dark force that threatens to once again consume America. Not to disregard individual accountability in the slightest, but it would be naive for us to ignore the fact that many of those closest to Trump have descended into catastrophic downward spirals. If we let Trump back into the driver’s seat this fall, our country will be no exception.
My dad and I have a cartoonishly complicated relationship. But he is still my father, and despite his faults, I love him. I’ve seen him experience surreal heights, and, now, unfathomable lows. The last thing I want to do is hurt him, especially when he’s already down. Plus we never know how much time we have left with our parents. The totality of that makes this the most difficult piece I’ve ever written. Yet this moment and this election are so much bigger than any of us.
From reproductive rights and the economy, to foreign and environmental policy, we need experienced, sane, and fundamentally decent leaders who will fight for us instead of against us—who will safeguard our democracy rather than dismantle it. And as a recently engaged-to-be-married, 35-year-old who hopes to feel more joyous than fearful about the potential of becoming a parent myself, I need to advocate for a future worth bringing children into, which is why I am voicing my adamant support for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz.
I’ll never forget the night my dad told me he was considering becoming Trump’s lawyer. I was with him at the Grand Havana Room, a cigar bar at the top of 666 Fifth Avenue, an address too fitting given the unholy alliance my father was about to enter into.
Surrounded by thick smoke and powerful men, I ugly-cried for a few minutes, then spent the next three hours making my vehement case to my father that he not go down this morally perilous path.
It was extremely rare for my dad to tell me he was going to do anything before actually doing it, so this moment of connection with him also felt like a cosmic opportunity to do my part to limit the spread of Trump’s sinister shadow. I held nothing back. I voiced all of my concerns about Trump’s open racism, rampant misogyny, and total lack of empathy. I even told my dad that I already felt ashamed of my last name whenever I saw headlines connecting him with Trump, and that this escalation would only deepen that feeling. For the rest of that night, I held onto hope that a daughter’s emotional entreaty might actually sway a father.
That fantasy was dispelled the next morning when a news story popped onto my feed: Rudy Giuliani was going to work for Donald Trump. The pit I felt in my stomach then was a warning, but I had no idea how much destruction my father would come to face due to his one-sided fealty to a con-man. Growing up in Gracie Mansion, I always knew I had a privileged life. But a particular set of challenges came along with being Rudy Giuliani’s daughter, and by that point in my life, I had mostly learned how to navigate them.
But nothing I have experienced prepared me for the very public and relentless implosion of my father’s life.
As someone who overcame a deeply ingrained eating disorder and has worked through various other manifestations of anxiety and depression, I’m no stranger to processing complicated feelings. But this new albatross left me floored by a potent mix of fear, anger, confusion, and sadness that often had me crying over my dad, and for him, at the same time. I always saw flaws in my dad that people blinded by his celebrity couldn’t see, but on some level, the absurd scale of his success and notoriety also made it hard to believe that anything could actually take him down. I spent a lot of my life wishing my father had less power. But I never wanted it to happen like this. And selfishly, the deeper my dad gets stuck in the quicksand of his problems, the more fleeting our opportunities to connect as father and daughter become. After months of feeling the type of sorrow that comes from the death of a loved one, it dawned on me that I’ve been grieving the loss of my dad to Trump. I cannot bear to lose our country to him too.
I know that some people may question whether I truly care about my father, since another Trump presidency could theoretically mitigate some of the problems he’s facing. It distresses me to think that my dad might even wonder this. But if you zoom out, Trump being the president was the worst thing that ever happened to my dad, to my family, and to our nation’s modern history. The consequences will only be more severe—and irreversible— a second time around. Thanks to the extremist Supreme Court he stacked, Trump would take office with full immunity: no checks on his power whatsoever. If the president isn’t going to be subject to the law like every other citizen, which remains incomprehensible to me, then our president had better have a moral compass. A 34-time convicted felon who’s been found liable for sexual abuse, tries to steal elections, and demeans people based on their race, sexuality, disability status, and gender falls remarkably short of the bar we must set for ourselves as a country. Fortunately, we have another choice in this election: a life-long public servant who has spent her career upholding justice and fighting for those who cannot fight for themselves.
The Supreme Court’s immunity ruling was a huge blow to the structure of our democracy, and Trump has made it clear that he intends to continue ravaging our noble experiment until there is nothing left of it. The aspiring autocrat has told his supporters that this is the last time they’ll ever have to vote because “it’ll be fixed after that.” There’s no good way to spin that. Whether he means that elections will be fixed, elections will be eradicated, or that the country will be permanently “fixed” due to the demolition of institutions and policies that ensure checks and balances on power, it’s clear that he’s a narcissist in pursuit of authoritarian rule. A democracy by definition cannot be fixed or calcified. It must have the flexibility to change according to the wishes of its people, not the despotic dreams of one. Listening to those wishes, even when it seemed inconceivably late for President Joe Biden to pull out, is exactly what led to Kamala Harris being on the top of the ticket. Her rapid rise is a literal manifestation of citizens’ voices being heard, which is exactly the type of consideration and respect all Americans will get if she is elected.
Beyond the existential importance of this election, I am also voting for Harris because she is the only candidate who cares about my rights as a woman. The reversal of Roe v Wade was a shocking and horrifying “accomplishment” of Trump’s that has already resulted in the unforgivable and unnecessary deaths of innocent women like Amber Nicole Thurman. Seeing Republican state officials enact draconian abortion bans and threaten fertility care is incredibly personal for me. As a woman in my 30s struggling with long-covid-related health issues, there’s a possibility that my soon-to-be husband and I will need to rely on surrogacy or fertility treatments if we want to have children of our own. Having the means to even consider surrogacy is a tremendous privilege that I do not take lightly, but it also stirs up many complex and challenging emotions. So I’ve spent the last couple of years talking to countless women about their fertility journeys. Witnessing their strength has been inspiring, and it has also made it clear that fertility struggles necessitate tremendous courage and grace. So the fact the Roe reversal has given states the leeway to make the IVF process even more uncertain is a disgrace. And hearing Trump flip-flop on the issues of abortion and IVF only makes me trust him less – if that’s even possible – because his lies are so clearly politically motivated. He’s already caused irreparable damage, and I don’t believe for a second that he won’t cause more.
Trump has tried to distance himself from Project 2025, which would “explicitly reject the notion that abortion is health care” and require the Department of Health and Human Services Department to preclude doctors and nurses from being trained to perform abortions, but his insincere denial so clearly stems from his growing political insecurity. Project 2025’s contributors include several high-ranking officials from Trump’s first administration, and one of Project 2025’s authors, Russell Vought, was secretly recorded acknowledging that Trump is in fact “very supportive” of what they do. I believe it, because everything in Project 2025, from eradicating the Department of Education and FEMA, to decimating unions and reinstating schedule F so that the administration can hire and fire government employees for political reasons, is woefully in line with the malfeasance and backsliding that Trump has already proven he stands for. It is a dictator’s playbook—one he didn’t have before. Trump will be much more effective a second time around, and I don’t see how our world can survive it.
We live at a crossroads in history, where the future of not only our democracy but our planet is at stake. Trump’s first-term position on the Climate Crisis was to call it a hoax while stripping away climate regulations and giving the fossil fuel industry everything they wanted and more. His second-term agenda, which we can foresee through his grotesque Project 2025 playbook, will only accelerate the damage he’s already done. My dream of becoming a mom, coupled with the difficult health journey I’ve been on over the last few years, has me constantly grappling with our increasingly toxic and dangerous environment. But I do feel hope. Because Kamala Harris understands the grave danger of climate change. As only the second presidential candidate in history to be endorsed by Scientific American, she’ll be a champion for our children’s futures by reinstating the United States as a member of the Paris Agreement and continuing to fight for renewable energy policy. We’ve seen remarkable progress on this issue under the Biden/Harris Inflation Reduction Act. Trump would roll it all back. Kamala Harris is our only chance for a better future.
Even though the last few years have been some of the most difficult of my life on a personal level, I’m grateful to live in a country that came together once before to fire a burgeoning tyrant. Watching Harris reignite the torch that Biden selflessly passed to her has filled me with optimism and pride. She has the experience, intelligence, and fortitude to lead us to a brighter future, and seeing her hold Trump accountable in the debate only further confirms her ability to defend us from our most dangerous enemies, domestic and foreign. But even with all the incredible momentum the Harris/Walz ticket has generated, we still have to work hard to ensure a victory for our future. We live in a two-party system, and no candidate will appeal to every voter on every issue.
If for whatever reason you choose to sit this election out or lodge a protest-vote for a third-party candidate, make no mistake: you are voting for Donald Trump.
Take it from me, Trump destroys everything he touches. I saw it happen to my family. Don’t let it happen to yours, or to our country. Kamala Harris will guide us into a brighter future, but only if we unite behind her. On November 5th, I’ll be voting for that future. For justice, stability, and democracy. And I sincerely hope you’ll cast your ballot for Kamala Harris, too.
Caroline Rose Giuliani, contributor. Caroline is a Los Angeles-based writer and filmmaker. She seeks to shine a light on stigmatized subjects, such as mental health and sexuality. Her print writing ranges from think pieces to satire, and can be found in Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, McSweeney’s, and more.
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