‘Not the man I know’: Ryan Routh ‘isn’t violent’ but does hate Trump, reveals son

The son of the man arrested on suspicion of attempting to assassinate Donald Trump has insisted that his father isn’t violent – but admitted he does hate the former president.

Oran Routh, son of 58-year-old Ryan Wesley Routh, told CNN that the accusations against his father “doesn’t sound like the man I know” and that he hopes “things have just been blown out of proportion.”

“I don’t have any comment beyond a character profile of him as a loving and caring father, and honest, hardworking man,” he said.

He went on to say: “I don’t know what’s happened in Florida, and I hope things have just been blown out of proportion, because from the little I’ve heard, it doesn’t sound like the man I know to do anything crazy, much less violent.

“He’s a good father, and a great man, andI hope you can portray him in an honest light.”

Speaking to the Daily Mail, he described his father as someone who is not violent, claiming he has had only “a couple traffic tickets,” but noted that he does hate Trump, as “every reasonable person does.”

“I don’t like Trump either,” he added.

“He’s my dad and all he’s had is couple traffic tickets, as far as I know. That’s crazy. I know my dad and love my dad, but that’s nothing like him.”

Oran said that it was the first he had heard about the incident and didn’t even know his dad was in Florida – adding that “we’ve had a falling out, we’ve grown apart.”

That said, he insisted he’s “not a violent person.”

Routh has a criminal record dating back to at least 2002 when he was convicted in Guilford County, North Carolina, on one felony count of possession of a weapon of mass destruction, according to a review of state court records. The charge was over a fully automatic machine gun, according to News & Record