KAAAWA, HAWAII, and GREENSBORO, N.C.—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.”
A few hundred yards away from the spot where Trump was golfing on Sept. 15, a Secret Service agent spotted a rifle barrel jutting through a brush-covered fence. The agent fired, causing the hidden gunman to flee. Police later arrested the suspect, identified as Routh….