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Takeaways from AP's report on warning signs about suspect in apparent Trump assassination attempt

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Nurse Chelsea Walsh says she never heard back after reporting Ryan Routh’s violent behavior in 2022 while he was recruiting foreign soldiers for the war in Ukraine .

Walsh said she watched him grow increasingly angry and unhinged, kicking a panhandler, threatening to burn down a music studio that slighted him and speaking of his own children with seething hatred.

She later repeated her concerns in separate tips to both the FBI and Interpol , the international policing group.

Routh was pulled aside by Customs and Border Protection agents when he returned to the U.S. in June 2023 , and asked about his activities overseas.

He told them he had been recruiting as many as 100 fighters from.

In her congressional testimony Wednesday , that agency's executive associate director, Katrina Berger , said the agency get hundreds of such requests a day and that Routh ’s comments did not rise to the level to take him into “immediate custody.” Asked specifically to confirm whether a further investigation was declined, she said she was not sure and would look into it. Bernard Condon , The Associated Press .

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