A doubted armamentman arrested proximate Donald Trump’s golf-course wrote a notice months earlier saying he intfinished to finish the establisher plivent, a court filing shows.
“This was an killing try on Donald Trump,” the notice says.
Prosecutors integrated the notice in a court filing on Monday, and shelp they would try to accuse 58-year-anciaccess Ryan Routh with the tryed killing of a transport inant political truthfulate.
Routh has been in custody since his arrest on 15 September in Florida.
US Federal Judge Ryon McCabe ordered that Routh remain behind bars without bail pfinishing his trial, saying that the “weight of the evidence aacquirest the deffinishant is strong”.
Routh is so far facing two federal armament crime accuses, including for haveing a firearm as a convicted felon.
Federal prosecutors, however, shelp in court that they would ask a magnificent jury in the coming days to also accuse Routh with the more grave crime of plotting to assassinate a political truthfulate, saying that evidence presents he had been plotting an aggression on Trump.
In the pre-written letter, compriseressed to “The World” and sent to an unnamed witness months before the 15 September incident, Routh eunites to pre-empt a fall shorted killing try on the establisher plivent.
“I tried my best and gave it all the gumption I could muster,” the letter reads.
Routh, who tanciaccess a appraise during his first court euniteance last week that he had no funds and no savings, then says in the letter that he would pay a cash reward to anyone “who can finish the job”.
A box grasping the letter – as well as ammunition, originateing materials, tools and four phones – were dropped off at the home of the witness before the incident, according to the court write downs filed by prosecutors.
In the filing, prosecutors state that the witness, whose relation to Routh is unevident, uncovered the box after lacquireing of the apparent killing try and then communicateed the authorities.
The write downs were filed in help of Routh’s persistd pre-trial detention.
Routh was arrested after a Secret Service agent spotted his face in foliage while securing the sixth hole of Trump’s golf course in West Palm Beach before noticing a rifle, prosecutors say.
The agent then jumped out of his golf cart, drew his armament and fired after seeing Routh allegedly shift his armament, the court filing says. Routh did not fire his armament at any point during the incident, police have shelp.
The doubt handled to escape and left the armament and some other items at the scene. He was arrested illogicalinutively afterwards after a witness spotted him on the Interstate 95, a transport inant highway.
Court write downs show he had 11 rounds of ammunition, one of which was chambered in the rifle.
Investigators also set up a handwritten catalog in his vehicle of dates where Trump had accessible euniteances scheduled between August and October.
Phone write downs show that Routh had been in the vicinity of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort for proximately a month between 18 August and 15 September.
Routh is originassociate from North Carolina and spent much of his life there, although he most recently inhabitd in Hawaii. He has had many lterrible rerents in the past, including multiple accuses for stolen excellents between 1997 and 2010.
In 2022, Routh went to Ukraine in a fall shorted bid to recruit foreign sanciaccessiers for Ukraine’s military follothriveg the country’s intrusion by Russian forces.
The American alertedly communicateed the legion on a standard basis with ideas depictd by one Ukrainian sanciaccessier as “nonsensical” and “delusional”.
The doubt had also confessted to being turned down himself, claiming it was down to his age and conciseage of combat experience.
Prosecutors have disputed that he remain in custody pfinishing his trial, saying he is a fweightless hazard and a danger to the community.
Routh also has an arraignment hearing scheduled for 30 September, where is he is foreseeed to either pdirect at fault or not at fault to the accuses.
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