The person accused within the obvious assassination try of Donald Trump at a golf course in Florida left behind a observe saying that he meant to kill the previous president and maintained in his automotive a handwritten checklist of dates and venues the place Trump was to look, the Justice Division mentioned Monday.
The brand new allegations have been included in a detention memo filed forward of a listening to Monday at which the Justice Division was anticipated to argue that 58-year-old Ryan Wesley Routh ought to stay locked up because the case strikes ahead.
The small print are supposed to buttress prosecutors’ assertions that Routh is a risk to public security with a premeditated plan to kill Trump—a plot officers say was thwarted by a Secret Service agent who noticed a rifle poking out of shrubbery on the West Palm Seaside golf course the place Trump was taking part in.
The observe was positioned in a field dropped off months earlier on the house of an unidentified one who didn’t open it till after final Sunday’s arrest. The field additionally contained ammunition, a metallic pipe, constructing supplies, instruments, telephones and varied letters. The one that acquired the field and contacted legislation enforcement was not recognized within the Justice Division’s detention memo.
One observe, addressed “Dear World,” seems to have been premised on the concept that the assassination try can be unsuccessful.
“This was an assassination attempt on Donald Trump but I failed you. I tried my best and gave it all the gumption I could muster. It is up to you now to finish the job; and I will offer $150,000 to whomever can complete the job,” the observe mentioned, based on prosecutors.
On this picture launched by the Martin County, Fla., Sheriff’s Workplace, legislation enforcement officers arrest Ryan Routh, the person suspected within the obvious assassination try of Donald Trump on Sunday, Sept. 15, 2024.
Cellphone information cited by the Justice Division point out Routh traveled to West Palm Seaside from Greensboro in mid-August, and that he was close to Trump’s golf membership and the previous president’s Mar-a-Lago residence “on multiple days and times” between August 18 and the day of the obvious tried assassination.
He was arrested on Sunday afternoon after a Secret Service agent who was scoping the Trump Worldwide Golf Membership for potential safety threats noticed {a partially} obscured man’s face, and the barrel of a semiautomatic rifle, aimed instantly at him. The agent fired at Routh, who sped away earlier than being stopped by officers in a neighboring county.
The Secret Service has mentioned Routh didn’t fireplace any pictures and by no means had Trump in his line of sight.
The Justice Division additionally mentioned Monday that authorities who searched his automotive discovered six cellphones, together with one which confirmed a Google search of journey from Palm Seaside County to Mexico.
Additionally they discovered an inventory with dates in August, September, and October and venues the place Trump had appeared or was scheduled to, based on prosecutors. A pocket book present in his automotive was crammed with criticism of the Russian and Chinese language governments and notes about be a part of the battle on behalf of Ukraine.
The detention memo additionally cites a ebook authored by Routh final 12 months through which he lambasted Trump’s method to overseas coverage, together with in Ukraine. Within the ebook, he wrote that Iran was “free to assassinate Trump” for having left the nuclear deal.
Routh is charged with illegally possessing his gun regardless of a number of felony convictions, together with two prices of possessing stolen items in 2002 in North Carolina, and with possessing a firearm with an obliterated serial quantity. Extra critical prices are attainable within the weeks forward.
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