Mysteries enshroud Ryan Routh, the 58-year-old man charged with attempting to kill former President Donald Trump at his Florida golf course. But one thing about Routh is clear to humanitarian aid worker Chelsea Walsh, a travel nurse who met him overseas.
Walsh, who warned U.S. authorities that Routh was dangerous more than two years ago, now says this about the foiled assassination attempt: “The Ryan I know, he definitely would have pulled the trigger without a second thought; I think they got him just in time.” Our colleagues went door-to-door in Hawaii and North Carolina and scoured troves of public records to reconstruct Routh’s decline from model citizen to the erratic Ukraine activist now facing attempted assassination charges.