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Courtroom marshals sprung to action and dragged him out of the room as his daughter, Sara Routh, screamed at her father. “Dad I love you. Don’t do anything. I’ll get you out. He didn’t hurt anybody,” the daughter yelled.
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The jurors took about two hours to find Routh, 59, guilty of five federal charges of attempted assassination, assault on a federal officer and gun crimes following a two week trial in Fort Pierce, Fla. court.
After the verdict was read out, Routh took a pen and stabbed himself in the neck. The extent of his injuries was not immediately clear.
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“This was an evil man with an evil intention, and they caught him,” the post read. “A very big moment for JUSTICE IN AMERICA!”
Routh — a construction worker, with no formal legal training — represented himself, putting on an amateur and bizarre defense in which he suggested the case should be settled by a golf match to the death.
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Such wild stunts led the judge to repeatedly slam Routh for running afoul of court rules.
Prosecutors said that Routh plotted for weeks before staking out the Trump International West Palm Beach golf course on Sept. 15, 2024 as Trump was golfing.
Routh was spotted by a Secret Service agent as he was camped out an a sniper’s nest on the edge of the course with an SKS rifle poking through the fence. The agent opened fire, prompting Routh to flee before he ever fired a shot.
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“This case means absolutely nothing,” Routh told jurors at one point. “A life has been lived to the fullest.”
He also tried to ask prospective panelists during jury selection about their stance on the US taking over Greenland, pro-Palestinian student activism and how they would react if a turtle crossed the road while they were driving. But Cannon blocked the questions, calling them “irrelevant.“
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Since taking over, Routh has filed a slew of bonkers legal papers, including a witness list in which he sought to call the commander-in-chief himself, activist Mahmoud Khalil and a Secret Service agent he claimed asked him to “spank/slap ass.”
Most of Routh’s 24 proposed witnesses were barred by Cannon from testifying at trial on the grounds they couldn’t offer relevant testimony.
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In earlier court filings, Routh asked why his case wasn’t death-penalty eligible and asked to be traded in a prisoner exchange with Hamas, Iran, China and Russia. He also challenged Trump to a game of golf to the death, proposing that if he lost he should be executed and if Trump lost Routh should get his job.
* Original Article:
https://nypost.com/2025/09/23/us-news/ryan-routh-convicted-of-trying-to-assassinate-president-trump-faces-life-in-prison/