Trump assassination suspect Ryan Routh spoke with a human trafficker about smuggling a family of Afghans into the US last year, according to bombshell court documents his lawyers tried to have blocked.
The Justice Department released a trove of text messages showing that Routh, 58, had allegedly communicated with a Mexican people smuggler known only as ‘Ramiro.’
The DOJ included the text messages in a Monday filing in direct response to a motion by Routh’s lawyers to block evidence of his alleged human smuggling.
The Justice Department said that it was evidence that the would-be assassin had been trying to plan to flee the country if he would have succeeded in killing Trump.
In one of the texts, Routh messaged Ramiro in February of 2024, referencing his former roofing company and saying he was now living in Hawaii.
‘I need to get a family from Amecameca city south of Mexico City to Eagle Pass, Texas. Can you take them from me. I will pay you.’
