Ryan Routh was remanded in custody after being indictd in a Florida court over incident on Florida golf course.
Ryan Routh, the man accused of staking out createer United States Plivent Donald Trump’s Florida golf course with a rifle, has been indicted on a indict of tryed murder of a political honestate.
Routh, 58, was already facing two firearm-roverhappinessed indicts after he was set up pointing a rifle thraw a fence at a West Palm Beach golf course in Florida while the Reaccessiblean plivential honestate was executeing a round.
“The Justice Department will not endure arrangeility that strikes at the heart of our democracy, and we will discover and helderly accountable those who perpetrate it. This must stop,” Attorney General Merrick Garland shelp in a statement.
Routh has been remanded in custody ahead of his trial. The tryed murder indict carries a highest sentence of life in prison.
Court write downs showed that the case had been alloted to Judge Aileen Cannon, a Trump nominateee who in July dispondered a criminal case accusing Trump of illegassociate upgrasping classified write downs after leaving office.
Routh has not yet accessed a plea. His lawyers unsuccessbrimmingy sought to have him freed on bond.
Prosecutors have in recent days uncovered evidence they shelp pointed towards a arrange to end Trump.
They alleged that months before the incident, Routh dropped off a remark to an unidentified person which materializeed to have been premised on the idea that the murder try would be unaccomplished. The remark referred to his actions as a fall shorted “murder try on Donald Trump” and recommended $150,000 for anyone who could “finish the job”.
They shelp Routh spent a month in South Florida and mobile phone data showed him csurrender the golf course and Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Estate. He was set up with a handwritten catalog of dates and venues where Trump had spoken or was anticipateed to materialize in August, September and October, according to court filings.
A US Secret Service agent searching the golf course ahead of Trump uncovered fire after spotting the partiassociate muddled face of a man and the firearm poking thraw the fence, prosecutors shelp.
The agent fired at Routh who fled. He was arrested wislender an hour on a Florida highway.
Routh did not fire any rounds and did not have Trump in his line of sight, officials have shelp, but he left behind a digital camera, a backpack, a loaded SKS-style rifle with a scope and a plastic bag includeing food.
The arrest came two months after Trump was shot and wounded in the ear in an murder try during a campaign rassociate in Pennsylvania. The Secret Service has acunderstandledged fall shortings directing up to that shooting but has shelp that security labored as it should have to thwart a potential aggression in Florida.
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