Pulling a: Hunter Biden?Everything I've read says he went there claiming to be recruiting for the Ukrainian military, recruited nobody, scammed folks out of money, then fled the country.
Here is a thought: maybe he wasn't intended to succeed in the task, just "scare" the target. If I had Trump's cash, I might reconsider running, at some point. Perhaps someone is sending Trump a message? Convince him to not try too hard?
Records show more than 100 criminal counts have been filed against Routh in North Carolina. In 2002, court records state, he was convicted of possessing a weapon of mass destruction — a machine gun.
In that case, a man named Ryan Routh, 36 at the time, was alleged to have led authorities on a vehicle chase before he holed up at a roofing company in Greensboro, according to an account by the Greensboro News & Record. link