Ryan Routh Called for Iran to Assassinate Trump in Bizarre Self-Published Book

Ryan Wesley Routh, the man federal investigators believe tried to assassinate Donald Trump on Sunday, self-published a book where he wrote about the war in Ukraine and at one point called on Iran to assassinate the former president.

Routh, 58, was charged by federal prosecutors with multiple firearm violations on Monday for the incident outside Trump’s golf club in West Palm Beach, Florida. Investigators have not revealed a motive for what they are calling an attempted assassination of the former president. However, his vocal presence on social media and his self-published book provide some insight into the topics he was seemingly fixated on—most of them international conflicts.

In February 2023, Routh self-published Ukraine’s Unwinnable War on Amazon. The book comes with a hefty, pessimistic subtitle: “The Fatal Flaw of Democracy, World Abandonment and the Global Citizen-Taiwan, Afghanistan, North Korea and the end of Humanity.”

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