Ryan Routh to be tried for an alleged attempted assassination of Trump

This week, a man accused in an alleged plot aimed at assassinating President Donald Trump last September, this will be tried in Florida.

The incident, which occurred just a few weeks after a bullet collapsed Trump’s ear in another assassination attempt in Pennsylvania, political violence in the United States said. The two incidents caused a meticulous examination of American secret services and its ability to protect high -level candidates like Trump.

The suspect at the heart of this case, Ryan Wesley Routh, will be represented in what could become an unorthodox trial. He pleaded not guilty.

Routh, 59, is from North Carolina, but lived in Hawaii before the alleged assassination attempt. He has previous criminal history and was a supporter of Ukraine in his war against Russia.

Here’s what you need to know about the case.

The incident occurred on September 15, 2024, while Trump campaigned to take over the White House.

According to court documents, President Trump Golf in his club in West Palm Beach, Florida, when an American secret service agent spotted a man in the bushes at the perimeter of the property. The man was then identified as Roth.

Roth shot the agent, according to federal prosecutors, and a witness saw him cross the road to a black Nissan Xterra. Local police were apprehended later on the Interstate 95.

The agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation found a semi-automatic SKS rifle with a range and a magazine extended in the region where Routh had hidden.

They also found documents with a list of events in which Trump had appeared, or had to appear, in the coming months. According to the police, another witness said that Routh had left a box at his home in the months before, there was a note, by reading in part: “It was an assassination attempt on Donald Trump but I’m really sorry to have failed you.”

Trump was playing golf at the time, but had not come into contact with Routh.

The government accused Routh attempt at the assassination of a presidential candidate, having a firearm in favor of a crime of violence, by attacking a federal officer, a criminal in possession of a firearm and ammunition, and possession of a weapon with an erased standard number.

Roth pleaded not guilty of accusations last year. He was detained in prison in Florida pending trial.

Roth’s trial begins on Monday September 8 in a federal courthouse in Fort Pierce, Florida.

He will start with the selection of the jury, before moving on to openings.

The trial will take place in the same federal courthouse where President Trump himself was accused of having allegedly kept classified documents from his first mandate in the White House. This case finally ended after Trump was re -elected.

Judge Aileen Cannon, who supervised the Trump affair and finally rejected it, will also chair Roth’s trial. Trump appointed Cannon judge on the federal bench during his first mandate.

Roth made the unusual decision to stand out at the trial.

In a letter in the court, he said that he was “ridiculous from the start to consider a random unknown who knew nothing about who I must speak for me”.

He also said that he and his lawyers were “a million kilometers from the other” and that they did not answer his questions.

The Cannon judge will allow Routh to imagine, but said to him: “I strongly invite you not to make this decision.”

She indicated that having a lawyer would be “much better” and ordered the legal advisor appointed by the court to remain on hold.