Donation records available to t-online show that Ryan Routh, while living in Hawaii, apparently donated small amounts between $1 and $25 to the Democratic Party campaign several times between 2019 and 2020.
Ryan Routh has been most vocal about Ukraine in the past. In a video interview with Newsweek Romania, he said that for him the fight against Putin's war of aggression was a question of “black and white”, a question of “good versus evil”.
Routh apparently took the task of fighting against Russia so seriously that he even wanted to fight as a volunteer in Ukraine and tried for a long time to recruit mercenaries for the war against Putin.
According to information from t-online, Ryan Routh maintains the website “Fight for Ukraine”, on which he states that he wants to pay “1,200 dollars per month” per volunteer. It reads: “Each and every one of us is responsible for the outcome of this war, because every single one of our actions must represent humanity and show kindness, caring, selflessness, altruism, empathy, generosity and all the moral goodness that is at stake in this fight.”
Not only “Newsweek Romania”, but also several English-language media outlets have interviewed Routh in recent years regarding his involvement in Ukraine.
In the “New York Times” Routh appeared in 2023 as a protagonist in an article about Americans who want to volunteer to fight in Ukraine. It read that Ryan Routh, “a former construction worker from Greensboro, North Carolina,” was looking for recruits among Afghan soldiers who had fled the Taliban. His plan was apparently to bring the Afghans “illegally from Pakistan and Iran to Ukraine.” You could probably “buy some passports through Pakistan because it's such a corrupt country,” Routh told New York Times reporters. It is not known whether Ryan Routh was successful with his plans.
