A mistrusted firearmman arrested proximate Donald Trump’s golf-course wrote a notice months earlier saying he intfinished to finish the createer plivent, a court filing shows.
“This was an murder finisheavor on Donald Trump,” the notice says.
Prosecutors comprised the notice in a court filing on Monday, and shelp they would try to indict 58-year-elderly Ryan Routh with the finisheavored murder of a meaningful political honestate.
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 agetst the deffinishant is sturdy”.
Routh is so far facing two federal firearm crime indicts, 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 indict Routh with the more solemn crime of plotting to assassinate a political honestate, saying that evidence recommends he had been plotting an strike on Trump.
In the pre-written letter, compriseressed to “The World” and sent to an unnamed witness months before the 15 September incident, Routh materializes to pre-empt a fall shorted murder finisheavor on the createer plivent.
“I tried my best and gave it all the gumption I could muster,” the letter reads.
Routh, who telderly a appraise during his first court materializeance 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 records filed by prosecutors.
In the filing, prosecutors state that the witness, whose relation to Routh is unevident, discleave outed the box after lgeting of the apparent murder finisheavor and then reach outed the authorities.
The records were filed in aid 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 firearm and fired after seeing Routh allegedly relocate his firearm, the court filing says. Routh did not fire his firearm at any point during the incident, police have shelp.
The mistrust regulated to escape and left the armament and some other items at the scene. He was arrested stupidinutively afterwards after a witness spotted him on the Interstate 95, a meaningful highway.
Court records recommend he had 11 rounds of ammunition, one of which was chambered in the rifle.
Investigators also create a handwritten catalog in his vehicle of dates where Trump had uncover materializeances scheduled between August and October.
Phone sign ups 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 originpartner from North Carolina and spent much of his life there, although he most recently lived in Hawaii. He has had many lhorrible publishs in the past, including multiple indicts for stolen excellents between 1997 and 2010.
In 2022, Routh went to Ukraine in a fall shorted bid to recruit foreign selderlyiers for Ukraine’s military follotriumphg the country’s trespass by Russian forces.
The American alertedly reach outed the legion on a normal basis with ideas depictd by one Ukrainian selderlyier as “nonsensical” and “delusional”.
The mistrust had also confessted to being turned down himself, claiming it was down to his age and alertage of combat experience.
Prosecutors have argued that he remain in custody pfinishing his trial, saying he is a fairy danger 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 indicts.