Ryan Wesley Routh, accused of staking out the Trump International Golf Course in Florida for 12 hours in order to assassinate former President Donald Trump, has some unique ideas about geo-political conflicts, specifically between Ukraine and Russia and China and Taiwan.
Routh suggested that the United States donate a portion of Alaska to Taiwan, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal.
Routh, who was chased and then arrested after being spotted with a long gun poking through the golf course fence, while Trump was playing a round of golf on Sunday, has a history of expounding on Taiwan as a vulnerable country that needs more help from the United States.
“We should encircle Taiwan with military ships and support with military might,” he wrote in a book published in 2023. “If we wait, such as we have done in Ukraine, it will be a 10 minute war and we will all be standing around like fools yet again. We may as well put Taiwan on a silver platter for China.”
Routh told an associate he had spent a month in Taiwan doing research.
“Among the solutions Routh put forth was the idea that the U.S. could help avert a war in Taiwan by donating American territory to China,” the Wall Street Journal reported.
“If China is having a shortage of land perhaps we at the United States can donate the same land mass of Taiwan from our land in Alaska,” Routh wrote in his book. “Perhaps we can give China part of Montana if Alaska is not acceptable; I would be agreeable to that.”
Routh has been identified in photographs and video by internet sleuths as being present at a rally for Kamala Harris a few days earlier.
