In commentary to Sputnik on Sept. 16, former CIA analyst Larry Johnson pointed out that the Ukraine connection of Ryan Routh, would-be assassin of former President Donald Trump on Sept. 15, must not be hidden. Without naming it explicitly, he references as a “death list” the hit list put together by Ukraine’s Center for Countering Disinformation (CCD), established in the Kyiv Presidency and funded by the U.S. State Department, which list includes the names of many Americans. Johnson mentions Scott Ritter and Col. Douglas Macgregor (ret.) as likely targets.
So, he points out, “it’s not out of line for them to have done this,” in trying to assassinate Trump. It’s very strange, he said, that Routh had access to President Trump’s whereabouts, since the former President’s schedule isn’t made public. “Who leaked that to him? ... Was there somebody in the Trump team that told him? Was there somebody inside the Secret Service who told him? Was it a foreign intelligence service? Was it the Ukrainian intelligence that alerted? That has to be investigated.”