The trial of Ryan Routh, for the attempted assassination of Presidential candidate Donald Trump a year ago (Sept. 15, 2024), has proceeded rapidly, with little or no light shown upon Routh’s possible activities with Ukraine’s wetworks operations, or with U.S. or British operatives coordinating with those wetworks. In fact, the U.S. Department of Justice requested, and Judge Aileen Cannon gave a ruling that the “information at issue was classified” and that its disclosure “could cause serious damage or exceptionally grave damages to the national security of the United States.” She ruled that the Justice Department had properly invoked the provisions of the Classified Information Procedures Act (CIPA.)
While she has denied the defense—and the world—access to that material, she did allow the defendant to represent himself. The prosecution is expected to close their part of the case this week. While Routh has all the appearances of an out-of-control character acting out his own fantasies, the apparent admission that the classified information involving Routh’s activities “could cause serious damage or exceptionally grave damages” to the U.S.’s national security warrants a renewed examination, and a possible window, into live capabilities. EIR News has previously covered, for instance, Routh’s brushes in Ukraine with the International Legion, the Azov Brigade, and his alleged attempt to acquire heavy weaponry for the assassination attempt from an “associate Routh believed to be a Ukrainian with access to military weapons.”
