The shadows are deeper than we thought.
Donald Trump Jr. is demanding answers—and the questions are horrifying. Why didn’t Ukraine alert the U.S. government when a deranged American activist allegedly tried to procure military-grade weapons from their war-torn country to assassinate his father, Donald Trump?
The would-be assassin, Ryan Wesley Routh, wasn’t just some online fantasist. According to bombshell court documents, Routh—a convicted felon and self-proclaimed pro-Ukraine supporter—was caught with a rifle near Trump’s Florida golf resort last September. But what’s even more disturbing is what led him there.
Before the arrest, Routh had allegedly tried to get his hands on a Russian-made RPG grenade launcher and a U.S.-built Stinger missile. He wasn’t shy about his intent. Through encrypted chats, he reportedly told a Ukrainian weapons contact: “I need the equipment so that Trump don’t get elected.” Cold. Calculated. Political.
Even more chilling? He claimed that “one missing [weapon] would not be noticed,” believing the chaos of war would cover his tracks.
Let that sink in: someone tried to source battlefield weapons to commit a presidential assassination—and allegedly looked to Ukraine to make it happen.
Donald Trump Jr. took to X (formerly Twitter) with fury and disbelief:
“If you think it’s bad that Ukraine never said thank you for everything the United States has done for them… the fact that they seemingly did not tell us that this sociopath literally tried to buy arms from them to assassinate my father seems like a much bigger deal. Wonder why?!?”
It raises a deeply uncomfortable question:
What else aren’t we being told?
Court filings reveal Routh had previously attempted to join Ukraine’s military in 2022 and later tried to recruit ex-Afghan soldiers to fight in the region. Though he failed to infiltrate the Ukrainian ranks, his obsession with the conflict—and his apparent willingness to murder over it—only intensified.
Thankfully, the weapons deal never happened. Routh was arrested near Mar-a-Lago and now awaits trial, facing a possible life sentence. But the silence from Ukraine is deafening.
In a world where wars blur borders and ideology knows no country, how close did we come to witnessing a political murder born from foreign entanglements? And why—amid billions in U.S. aid and support—did Ukraine stay quiet?
The dark web of geopolitics and madness just got a lot more real.
And a lot more dangerous.
