Trump Shooting Suspect Was Subject of Our June Story on Online Dating
Routh Told of Amusing Dating Experiences
Ryan Wesley Routh, the 58-year-old man arrested Sunday in connection with what the F.B.I. called an attempted assassination of former President Donald J. Trump, was featured in a June 18 article in Lewis Grosberger’s Raw Truth Bulletin under the headline, “Recently Divorced, He’s Giving Online Dating a Shot.”
The article quoted Routh as saying, “I think I’m a good catch for some nice, clean woman with long brown hair, green eyes and a slender, athletic build, as long as I can stay on my meds. I’ll be honest, that’s very tough for me. But she has to be really, really clean.”
Routh, a man with a somewhat mysterious past, has worked as a roofing contractor, a short-order cook, a car-wash attendant and governor of Utah.
He was arrested by Secret Service agents at the ex-President’s golf club in West Palm Beach Fla, where Trump was playing at the time. “There was something suspicious about the guy,” said Secret Service Agent Gerald Pushling. “Something was just off. I thought to myself, how could a guy like that have possibly been elected President of the United States? Then I noticed Routh behind a bush with a rifle.”
In the feature article, Routh said he had had romantic meetings with hundreds of women in the six days since he’d started computer dating. All were 30 or under, he said. “Some of them were put off by my hobbies of shooting pigeons and sending obscene letters to women who won’t go out on a second date with me, but plenty of gals came on real strong. Thirty or forty even proposed. I was tempted, but none of them was clean enough.”
FBI agents questioning the suspect were curious to learn how he found out Trump’s location, which had not been made public. “I just called the Mar a Lago switchboard,” Routh told them. “And I did my Melania impression. I said, ‘This is Mrs. Trump. I just flew into town and I can’t find that no-good husband of mine. Where the hell is the stupid son of a bitch?’”
Asked to comment, Trump said, “I had the best score of anyone out there today despite the thousands of bullets flying past me. Getting shot at doesn’t bother me at all. I hear the guy was Haitian. Is that right? Someone told me he was Haitian. Don’t get me wrong; I love the Haitian people. But too many of them are walking across the Haiti-Mexico border and then coming here and eating cats and taking jobs that should have gone to Mexicans. I’ll stop that. She won’t. You know who I mean.”
Fine work on deadline, Lew. Forget Deep Throat. You have best sources in journalism.
How can it be a "shooting suspect" when he didn't “shoot”?