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Court Slams Additional Charges On Gunman In Failed Assassination Attempt On Trump

by Ruth Nwokwu
11 months ago
in Foreign News
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The gunman accused of planning to assassinate former President Donald Trump at his Florida Golf Course, Ryan Routh was indicted on Tuesday with three additional counts which include attempted assassination of a major presidential candidate, as announced by the US Department of Justice.

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LEADERSHIP recalls that 58-year-old Routh was arrested on September 15 after Secret Service agents spotted him with a gun near the course where Trump was playing.

He has already been charged with two gun crimes on the incident.

A grand jury of a panel of citizens with investigative powers in Miami, Florida, issued the new indictment on Tuesday, the Justice Department said in a statement.

Court documents indicated that the case was assigned randomly to Federal Judge Aileen Cannon, a Trump appointee who stopped criminal proceedings against the former president over his retention of top-secret documents at his private residence.

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In addition to the attempted assassination of a presidential candidate, the new charges also include possession of a firearm in furtherance of a violent crime and assault on a federal officer, who court documents indicated was a Secret Service agent.

Routh’s gun was spotted poking out from the bushes by a Secret Service agent as he scouted ahead during Trump’s golf game.

The agent fired on the suspect, who fled but was later apprehended.

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A federal judge ruled on Monday that Routh should remain in custody.

FBI analysis of Routh’s phone showed he had been in Florida since August 18, and his devices were located multiple times between that date and September 15 near Trump’s golf course and his Mar-a-Lago residence, prosecutors said.

Before being spotted by the Secret Service agent, he had spent nearly 12 hours in the vicinity of the club, according to his phone location data, the prosecution has said.

It was the second assassination attempt on Trump this summer. The first took place on July 13 at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, when a gunman opened fire, killing one person and wounding Trump in the ear.

The candidate was otherwise unharmed, and the gunman was killed at the scene and is not thought to be connected with Routh’s alleged plot.

Trump had previously accused the Department of Justice and FBI of “mishandling and downplaying” the golf course incident.

“The charges brought against the maniac assassin are a slap on the wrist,” Trump said in a written statement released this week which may have been prepared before it emerged that extra felony counts on top of the earlier gun charges were a possibility.

Trump urged for the Routh case to be transferred to the jurisdiction of state authorities in Florida, which is under the leadership of the hard-right Republican Governor Ron DeSantis.


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