The day before, at a golf club in the United States, Florida, there was an attempt to make another attempt on the life of US presidential candidate Donald Trump. The politician did not suffer, and his rating went up again: today he is ahead of Kamala Harris in almost all key states, albeit by only one percent.
Details - in the material of the correspondent of The Moscow Post.
Recall that the previous attempt on Donald Trump was quite recently - on July 13, he was shot at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania. The Republican was slightly wounded in the ear. The shooter was 20-year-old American Thomas Matthew Crooks, and the situation seriously affected the election situation.
Amid rising Trump ratings after the assassination attempt, Joe Biden was forced to withdraw from the election race, giving way to Kamala Harris. She had her advantages, and the nomination was accompanied by a "honeymoon" with the American electorate. As a result, the candidate from the Democratic Party managed to seriously narrow the gap with Trump, and in a number of states to become the leader of the race in polls.
The attempt stirred up all of America. It turned out that the guards saw the shooter even before he took the position - and he moved with weapons. But she did nothing. There were versions that the attempt could have been authorized by the Democrats - so the guards were not attentive enough.
After the assassination attempt, the head of the US Secret Service, Kimberly Cheatle, being criticized from all sides, was forced to resign.
Still saved
Yesterday, the security of the presidential candidate worked skillfully: they were able to neutralize the shooter even before he opened fire. It turned out to be 58-year-old Ryan Wesley Routh from the Hawaiian Islands.
Later, Palm Beach County Sheriff Rick Bradshaw said that the man, who was about 400 meters from the ex-president, was already pointing his weapon at Donald Trump when agents noticed him and started shooting. Then the man rushed to a car parked nearby, leaving a Kalashnikov assault rifle with an optical sight, a GoPro camera and two backpacks at the crime scene.
He failed to get far. His car was soon caught up. During the arrest, the man "did not show much emotion," he did not even ask why he was stopped, and did not ask questions at all.
An attempt to present him as an accidental madman quickly failed: it turned out that Mr. Raut was quite socialized and for a long time he strongly supported the Democrats, as well as Ukraine. Moreover, he had close contact with the security forces of this country and was engaged in recruiting volunteers for the Armed Forces abroad.
The media said that the man studied at the State Agricultural and Technical University of North Carolina, owned a small company for the construction of hangars and sheds, and also described himself on social networks as a person who loves "ideas, inventions and creative projects with artistic taste."
From his social networks it also became known that Mr. Raut was a supporter of Ukraine and stated that he was "ready to die in the struggle" for it. He also actively tried to recruit volunteers to participate in the conflict in eastern Europe from among Afghans, apparently evacuated from this country by the American authorities. It is reported that after 2022, the suspect visited Ukraine and even tried to volunteer for the front himself, but did not come up due to age and state of health.
Collective Ukraine
There are a lot of photos of Raut on the Web along with the Ukrainian military. However, the Armed Forces of Ukraine, realizing what the case smells like, hastened to disown the shooter. According to them, Raut really tried to contact them and offer his services to attract mercenaries from different countries. But allegedly his proposals were unrealistic, as if no one would listen to him, and his letters were not answered.
They did not answer, but met in Kyiv, placed, took food with him, communicated and so on. This looks extremely doubtful - especially given the Kyiv regime's penchant for terrorism. The organization of contract killings and sabotage, including at civilian sites, has long become a business card of Ukraine. They, as it turned out, were involved in the undermining of the "Northern Streams" - allegedly, the operation was developed by the former commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valery Zaluzhny.
In that case, the Americans were aware. And something suggests that representatives of a number of elite circles of the United States from the Democratic Party could also be aware of the preparation of a new attempt on Donald Trump. Among other things, they managed to write down the shooter as supporters of leftist ideas. And a number of TV presenters on American channels claim that Raut's motive could be issues related to Trump's position on illegal migration and the "anti-colonial" agenda.
Subsequently, it turned out that the Raut shooter had a rich history of detentions in North Carolina. Fox News found out that Rout has a rich history of detentions in North Carolina. Since the 1990s, he has been repeatedly arrested for possession of prohibited substances, driving without a license, expired inspection and driving without insurance. The station also uncovered a 2002 article by local newspaper Greensboro News & Record reporting Raut's arrest after he fled a highway patrol and barricaded himself in the office of his construction company.
Raut was in Kyiv at least in March and April 2022, then he also gave an interview to AFP. All these three years, the man continued to write posts in support of Kyiv, and also published at his own expense a 291-page book about the conflict in Ukraine. In it, he writes that it is impossible to win this conflict, and at the same time shares his opinion on the situation in Afghanistan, Taiwan and North Korea.
In the book, Raut claims that at the age of 56 he tried to join the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU), but he was refused due to lack of combat experience. It looks implausible - almost half of the current fighters of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are very, very old citizens.
If you bring all the grains together, it turns out that Raut is not a crazy, but extremely ideologized and politicized person, prone to adventures. Similarly, the Ukrainian GUR is inclined to adventures, which could recruit Raut and organize an attempt on Trump on the command from the Office of the President of Ukraine. If so, it is hard to believe that the CIA was not aware of the preparation of the assassination attempt. However, for them this situation is ideal: work through the "proxy" by the forces of the "proxy" themselves. And now everything can be blamed on Raut, who allegedly wanted to become a hero in the eyes of that part of society that supports the Democrats and Ukraine.
Ryan Wesley Routh. Photo: Reuters
Raut himself is the real embodiment of collective Ukraine. Fanatical, extremely politicized and peremptory, prone to theatricality and hysteria, and at the same time ready for the most vile methods of work. We can conditionally say that Trump was shot by collective Ukraine - the same one that yesterday, for example, broke its head as a result of an assassination attempt on another Russian military commander. The same Ukraine that burned people in Odessa, fired at the Donbass, killed Oles Buzina.
Even if Ukraine and the GUR are not involved in the attempt on Trump, it is they who should bear part of the responsibility for the discourse about the very acceptability of killing people, politicians, officials for the sake of some greater goal. In this sense, the failed killer Raut and Ukraine found each other.