Federal prosecutors on Friday rested their case towards Ryan Routh, the person accused of attempting to kill Donald Trump on his Florida golf course final yr.
Routh, who’s representing himself regardless of not being an lawyer, plans to name three witnesses on Monday for his protection case, together with character witnesses and a firearms professional.
Prosecutors’ last witness on Friday was FBI Supervisory Particular Agent Kimberly McGreevy, who used receipts to point out that Routh spent the final month previous to the incident residing in a gasoline station within the Palm Seashore County space whereas conducting surveillance.
Prosecutors allege that Routh put collectively a methodical plan — together with buying a military-grade weapon, researching Trump’s actions, and using a dozen burner telephones — to kill Trump primarily based on political grievances.
Hiding within the bushes of Trump’s Palm Seashore golf course and armed with a rifle, Routh allegedly got here inside a few hundred yards of the then-presidential nominee earlier than a Secret Service agent noticed his rifle poking out of the tree line.
Routh allegedly fled the scene however was later arrested by an area sheriff’s workplace on a close-by interstate.
On this imaged launched by the Martin County, Fla., Sheriff’s Workplace, regulation enforcement officers arrest Ryan Routh, the person suspected within the obvious assassination try of Donald Trump, Sept. 15, 2024.
Martin County Sheriff’s Workplace through AP, FILE
He faces 5 prison fees, together with tried assassination of a serious presidential candidate, utilizing a firearm in furtherance of against the law, assaulting a federal officer, possessing a firearm as a felon, and utilizing a gun with a defaced serial quantity.
U.S. District Decide Aileen Cannon — who beforehand oversaw and dismissed one in every of Trump’s criminal cases — has barred Routh from attempting to argue that his alleged actions had been justified, that he didn’t intend to hold out the assassination, or that his actions had been protected by First Modification rights.
