A nurse shared on Tuesday insights into the violent tendencies of Ryan Wesley Routh, who is accused of plotting to assassinate former President Donald Trump at the Trump National Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Florida.
Chelsea Walsh met Routh while engaged in humanitarian efforts in Ukraine, according to Fox 29. During her appearance on Jesse Watters’ “Primetime,” Walsh expressed that she noticed Routh’s volatile behavior and felt a professional duty to report him, as she is a trained mandated reporter skilled in threat identification.
“I determined after knowing Ryan for a while that he was a threat to others. So I felt that it was necessary that he be reported to the proper authorities,” Walsh told Watters. “I haven’t heard anything, I have had no correspondence. Nobody had tried to connect with me until today… A agency has connected with me. I don’t want to say which one, but someone has connected with me.”
Walsh described Routh’s activities in Ukraine as concerning and multifaceted, portraying him as a skilled con artist who manipulated members of the Ukrainian military and misled charitable organizations.
“Ryan got involved with the humanitarian side as well as the military side. He got involved with things that he shouldn’t have been involved with. He was able to con members in the Ukrainian military,” the nurse continued.
EXCLUSIVE: The American nurse who flagged would-be assassin Ryan Routh to @DHSgov when they were in Ukraine tells Primetime he talked about assassinations ALL THE TIME. Chelsea Walsh says Routh had very volatile tendencies and often talked of harming world leaders, but her calls… pic.twitter.com/P5r03v6eMC
— Jesse Watters (@JesseBWatters) September 18, 2024
“He was able to con charities, he was a good con artist. He was calculated, but he was also very volatile and sporadic. He got into just about everything, drones, weapons, humanitarian aid. He got involved in things he shouldn’t have been involved with because he didn’t have a background in any of this.”
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Walsh’s concerns grew to the point where she felt her own safety was at risk.
“It got to a point where I ended up leaving Ukraine early on my first visit there because of Ryan and I felt that I was in danger after a conversation that I had with him that I don’t really want to go into right now,” she told Watters. “He was one of the reasons I left Ukraine because I felt that I was in jeopardy by staying there and he was around.”
Reflecting on Routh’s troubling past behavior, Walsh noted his fascination with assassinating world leaders. “He wanted to kill most world leaders. I don’t remember, it’s been over two years since I was with him. But I definitely remember he always talked about wanting to kill Putin, Kim Jong Un. He developed plans, he talked about Biden and Trump, but I can’t remember,” the nurse explained.
New York Times reporter Thomas Gibbons also recounted his previous encounter with Routh during an interview on “The Lead With Jake Tapper.” Gibbons mentioned that he met Routh through a network of international contacts stemming from his time reporting in Kabul, expressing surprise at the news of Routh’s alleged plot to assassinate Trump.
