Snowden: ‘Oswald Vibe’ Points to Potential Biden/Harris White House Links in Latest Trump Attack

The Biden White House may be implicated in the second assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump, given the alleged shooter’s background and government connections, according to former NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden.

"While details remain scarce, the alleged shooter’s involvement in military activities in Ukraine raises questions about whether this White House’s agencies can truly claim they have 'clean hands.' There's a definite 'Oswald vibe' here. Congress needs to investigate,” Snowden wrote on X on Sunday. The suspect, 58-year-old Ryan Routh, was reportedly a mercenary recruiting fighters for the Ukrainian frontline. According to the New York Times, Routh even recruited Afghan soldiers who had fled the Taliban to fight for Ukraine and was profiled positively for his efforts in 2023.

Routh’s recruiting efforts also got him an interview with Newsweek in 2022, where he appealed for more Americans to volunteer in the fight for Ukraine. His social media profiles, later removed by Facebook and X, showed him to be a fervent anti-Trump Democrat who was sympathetic to Ukraine’s battle against Russia. FEC records reveal that Routh was a registered Democrat who donated to several candidates, including Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Beto O’Rourke, Andrew Yang, and former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, in 2019 and 2020. As Snowden noted, Routh likely had ties to U.S. intelligence agencies under the Biden administration due to his close connections with the Ukrainian government.

For example, in 2023, the New York Times reported that Routh met with the Helsinki Commission, also known as the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE), an independent U.S. government agency established by Congress in 1975. "There is no question that this guy had overlap with national security agencies," Human Events editor and former Naval intelligence officer Jack Posobiec stated on Sunday. Many social media users have speculated that this second assassination attempt could be part of a government conspiracy, considering Routh’s connections to the Ukrainian government and possible U.S. agency links, as well as the fact that he knew Trump’s whereabouts, which were not publicly disclosed. This incident comes just two months after another shooter, Thomas Crooks, attempted to assassinate Trump at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, on July 13.