What Ryan Routh, Trump’s would-be assassin, told a reporter in 2023
Among those he interviewed was Ryan Wesley Routh, a 58-year-old man now under FBI investigation for what authorities are calling an assassination attempt on former President Donald J. Trump. Gibbons-Neff explained that he was put in touch with Routh by his colleague from Kabul, Najim Rahim, who had learned about Routh through a source in Iran—a former Afghan special operations soldier attempting to escape Iran and fight in Ukraine.