Ryan Wesley Routh is seen in video footage from Ukraine

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

83% : However, in recent years, his posts suggest he soured on Trump, and he expressed support for President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris.
61% : Secret Service agents and officers in golf carts and on ATVs generally secure the area several holes ahead and behind Trump when he plays.
57% : That year, he also posted in support of the Democratic presidential campaign of then-U.S. Rep. Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii, who has since left the party and endorsed Trump.
52% : This photo provided by the Martin County Sheriff's Office shows Sheriff's vehicles surrounding an SUV on the northbound I-95 in Martin County on SundayPhotos that show an AK-47 rifle, a backpack and a Go-Pro camera on a fence outside Trump International Golf Club taken after an apparent assassination attempt of Donald TrumpRouth posted on X in the spring how 'Democracy in on the ballot' in this November's electionU.S. Secret Service agents stationed a few holes up from where Trump was playing noticed the muzzle of an AK-style rifle sticking through the shrubbery that lines the course, about 400 yards away.
50% : The Palm Beach County sheriff said the entire golf course would have been lined with law enforcement if Trump were the president, but because he is not, 'security is limited to the areas that the Secret Service deems possible.''I would imagine that the next time he comes to the golf course, there will probably be a little more people around the perimeter,' Bradshaw said. '
49% : Trump had been playing a round at his golf club in West Palm Beach, Florida, on Sunday afternoon, just nine weeks after the Republican presidential nominee survived another attempt on his life.
32% : Agents also usually bring an armored vehicle onto the course to shelter Trump quickly should a threat arise.
21% : He wrote a tweet to Trump in June 2020 saying: '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; are you retarded; I will be glad when you gone'.
18% : According to his oft-updated X feed, Routh went from voting for Trump in 2016 to supporting Tulsi Gabbard in 2020 to demanding Nikki Haley and Vivek Ramaswamy form a unity team in 2024.
9% : In July, following the assassination attempt on Trump in Pennsylvania, Routh urged Biden and Harris to visit those wounded in the shooting at the hospital and to attend the funeral of a former fire chief killed at the rally.
3% : He told DailyMail.com his father hates Trump as 'every reasonable person does.Ryan Wesley Routh, the man named as the suspect in a possible assassination attempt near Donald Trump 's Florida golf club, was calm and emotionless when he was arrested SundayRouth, 58 is in custody after the incident at Trump International Club almost exactly two months after a separate assassination attempt against Trump during a rally in PennsylvaniaLaw enforcement personnel investigate the area around Trump International Golf Club after an apparent assassination attemptThe Florida golf course was partially shut down for Trump as he played, but there are several areas around the perimeter of the property where golfers are visible from the fence line.

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