Donald Trump assassination attempt: Would-be Florida golf club assassin, Ryan Routh, found guilty
US Chief Public Prosecutor Pam Bondi said on social media that Donald Trump was hidden with a gun near the Florida golf course, and that a great presidential candidate was guilty of assassination attempt.
A jury found that 59 -year -old Ryan Routh aimed to kill Trump, a former US president and Republican presidential candidate, when Trump pointed to a rifle from a fence while he was golf at the Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach.
He was also found guilty of a federal agent and four other charges he faced, including blocking arms. He faces maximum life sentence in prison.
According to the US media reports, Routh tried to stab himself several times as the decision was announced in court and the US Marshals had to be restricted by Marshals. His daughter Sara told the court that her father didn’t harm anyone and she would get her out of prison.
Routh, according to the testimony in the case, Trump’s Routh and rifle and rifle before a US secret service agent patrolling the route fled from the golf field.
“This plot is carefully prepared and fatal seriously, dedi prosecutor John Shipley said at the beginning of the hearing, without the intervention of the secret service agent,” Donald Trump will not be alive, “he added.
Florida’s Fort Pierce, a 12 -day hearing in the federal court, conservative activist Charlie Kirk’in assassination of the US political violence in the center of the national speech emerged.
Trump was aimed to attempt two assassinations, including someone who wounded him during the 2024 Presidential campaign that returned to the White House.
Bondi, today’s Trump assassin Ryan Routh against the guilty decision, the Ministry of Justice’s commitment to the participants of political violence shows the commitment to punishing, “he said.
“This assassination attempt was not only an attack on the President, but an insult to our nation.”
“This was a bad man with a malicious bad man and they caught him, Tr Trump added in an article on his social platform.
Routh, who claimed that he was not guilty of all charges, chose to expel his lawyers and defend himself in the trial. His defense was based on what he described as a gentle and non -violent nature, but his curved opening statement was cut by a Federal judge and offered very little return as a passage ceremony of law enforcement witnesses.
The prosecutors claimed that Routh had arrived in Southern Florida about a month before the September 15, 2024 incident, stayed at a truck stop and watched Trump’s movements and program. Routh was allegedly carrying six mobile phones and using false names to hide his identity.
Prosecutors, waiting for about 10 hours on the day of the incident and hiding the sixth hole in the thick bushes.
Trump was in the fifth hole, a few hundred meters away when Routh was discovered. Routh was arrested in the afternoon after he was stopped by the police along a Florida motorway.
