Ryan Routh was remanded in custody after being indictd in a Florida court over incident on Florida golf course.
Ryan Routh, the man accemployd of staking out establisher United States Pdwellnt Donald Trump’s Florida golf course with a rifle, has been indicted on a indict of endeavored murder of a political honestate.
Routh, 58, was already facing two armament-joind indicts after he was set up pointing a rifle thcimpolite a fence at a West Palm Beach golf course in Florida while the Reuncoveran pdwellntial honestate was carry outing a round.
“The Justice Department will not endure arrangeility that strikes at the heart of our democracy, and we will discover and hgreater 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 endeavored murder indict carries a peak sentence of life in prison.
Court records showed that the case had been alloted to Judge Aileen Cannon, a Trump assignee who in July neglected a criminal case accusing Trump of illegassociate retaining classified records after leaving office.
Routh has not yet accessed a plea. His lawyers unsuccessfilledy sought to have him freed on bond.
Prosecutors have in recent days uncovered evidence they shelp pointed towards a set up 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 endeavor would be unaccomplished. The remark referred to his actions as a fall shorted “murder endeavor on Donald Trump” and giveed $150,000 for anyone who could “finish the job”.
They shelp Routh spent a month in South Florida and mobile phone data showed him proximate 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 foreseeed 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 obsremedyd face of a man and the armament poking thcimpolite the fence, prosecutors shelp.
The agent fired at Routh who fled. He was arrested wiskinny 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 retaining food.
The arrest came two months after Trump was sboiling and wounded in the ear in an murder endeavor during a campaign rassociate in Pennsylvania. The Secret Service has acunderstandledged fall shortings directing up to that shooting but has shelp that security toiled as it should have to thwart a potential aggression in Florida.
