US media said Rutt, 58, was taken into custody after US Secret Service agents “opened fire on a shooter” with an AK-47 near Trump’s golf course in Florida, where the former president was playing golf on Sunday.
The suspect had run out of the bushes he was hiding in and fled in a black car before being tracked down by authorities.
CNN and CBS report that Rutt was a self-employed affordable housing developer in Hawaii. He regularly posted about politics and current events, including occasional criticism of Trump.
One of the things Rutt expressed his support for was Ukraine’s fight against an invasion launched by Russian dictator Vladimir Putin.
“I AM READY TO FLY TO KRAKOW AND GO TO THE BORDER OF UKRAINE TO VOLUNTARILY FIGHT AND DIE… Can I be an example? We must win,” Routs wrote on his “X” account in March 2022, according to the New York Times. , who also interviewed him.
AFP interviewed Ruta in Kyiv at the end of April 2022, when he participated in a demonstration to support the Ukrainians trapped in the city of Mariupol.
“Putin is a terrorist and he needs to be finished, so we need everyone from all over the world to stop what they are doing and come here now,” he told AFP at the time.
2024-09-17 06:10:27