The Coincidences Continue: New Details About Would-be Assassin Ryan Routh’s Wife

As details continue to emerge about the man accused of attempting to shoot former president Donald Trump, one of the more curious developments involves Ryan Routh’s wife Kathleen Shaffer and her work.

During questioning yesterday by Representative Matt Gaetz (R-FL), Homeland Security Investigations Executive Associate Director Chief Katrina W. Berger admitted that Routh had been flagged as suspicious by Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) last year when he returned to the U.S. from Ukraine and was referred to Homeland Security as a suspect.

BREAKING: The Executive Associate Director of Homeland Security Investigations cannot answer if her agency declined to investigate would-be Trump assassin Ryan Routh! pic.twitter.com/T3OsZxe0dq

— Rep. Matt Gaetz (@RepMattGaetz) September 18, 2024

Gaetz then read from the memo from CBP which stated, in part:

…the suspect is a US citizen who traveled to Kiev, Ukraine, for three months to help recruit soldiers from Afghanistan, Moldova, and Taiwan, to fight in the Ukrainian war against Russia. Subject stated he does not get paid for his recruiting efforts, and all his work for the Ukrainian government is strictly volunteer work. Subject stated that he obtains money from his wife to help fund his trips to Ukraine.

While Homeland Security did not find Routh suspicious enough to investigate, the information about Routh getting his funding from his wife Kathleen Shaffer has raised a whole new line of questions.

Jeff Childers researched Kathleen Shaffer and learned that, in addition to the CBP report, Shaffer edited Routh’s book and ran a GoFundMe for his Ukrainian recruitment crusade.

Other citizen journalists have connected Shaffer to a LinkedIn page of someone who shares her name and fits her profile and who lives in Hawaii.

From what I can tell,
Ryan Routh and his wife Kathleen Shaffer moved to Hawaii around 2017.
They bought a house in Kaawa in 2017, the house is in her name.

She wrote on LinkedIn about her husband fighting in Ukraine, and how it “turned her world upside down”.
Her world is… pic.twitter.com/11567njX5A

— Audit the Vote Hawaii (@AudittheVoteHI) September 15, 2024

If Shaffer is the same woman in the LinkedIn account, she is employed by a huge, international, publicly traded company called Maximus Corporation which claims to have trained CDC workers in administering covid shots and also brags about helping the Dept. of Defense modernize its technology systems.

According to ChatGPT, “Maximus Corporation has significant connections to the U.S. security state.”

From here, the coincidences continue with Maximus Corporation being headquartered just a few miles away from the CIA’s Langley, Virginia headquarters.

Given Routh’s and the CIA’s fanatical support of and involvement in the Ukraine war, his partnering with a woman employed by a multinational, security-state connected corporation seems rather convenient.

Let’s hope that Rep. Gaetz and others continue to demand answers to as to what Routh was up to and why the FBI and Homeland Security didn’t find him interesting enough to take another look.