Ryan Routh, the man accused of trying to kill Donald Trump while playing a golf round in his Florida field in 2024, He has been convicted of all the charges against him this Tuesday.
A jury in Florida declared Routh Routh guilty of five crimes, including the attempt to kill a presidential candidate, for trying to kill Donald Trump during the 2024 electoral campaign.
The jury found Routh guilty of all charges in his attempt to kill Trump, which also includes having a firearm to commit a crime with violence, attacking a federal agent, being a criminal with a weapon and having a weapon with a erased serial number.
The United States Attorney General Pam Bondi celebrated the verdict, which could imply a life imprisonment, as one that “illustrates the commitment of the Department of Justice to punish those who engage in political violence”, According to a message in X.
“This attempt at murder was not only an attack on our president, but an affront to our nation. I am grateful to the USAO_SDFL (prosecutor in southern Florida), Jason Quiñones, his entire team of the trial and our partners of the law for protecting President Trump and ensuring this important verdict,” Bondi wrote.
The verdict arrives less than two weeks after the start of the trial, on September 11, When Routh aroused renewed attention for defending himselfto ensure that he did not commit a crime because he did not intend to kill anyone and make references to characters like Hitler.
Prosecutors accused the suspect of wanting to “take the decision to US voters” When he tried to kill Trump in September 2024, two months before the presidential elections, In addition to trying to set up a “circus” in the trial to affect the image of the now president.
Judge Aileen M. Cannon of the Southern District of Florida in Fort Pierce, where the trial occurred, He cut Routh’s interventions sometimes for “mocking the dignity of the court”according to the press that accessed the room.
The final conviction will arrive in December for Routh, a 59 -year construction worker of North Carolina who detained on September 15, 2024, in a Florida golf course owned by Trump in which A secret service agent was discovered armed with a semi -automatic rifle hidden behind bushes.
His trial aroused a new interest in Start after the murder on September 10 of Charlie Kirk, 31 -year -old conservative activist near Trump, who held the “radical left” responsible for the event, which unleashed a renewed national debate on political violence in the United States.
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