Trump murder effort: Ryan Routh proof exposed

Accused prospective assassin Ryan Routh tracked Donald Trump for a month in Florida prior to he was apprehended onSept 15 recently after being identified stocking delay with a semi-automatic rifle simply outside a fairway where the previous head of state was playing, government district attorneys exposed in a court filing Monday.

The declaring additionally revealed that months previously the 58-year-old Routh had actually provided one more individual a box consisting of a transcribed letter that claimed, “This was an assassination attempt on Donald Trump but I failed you.”

Routh’s cellular phone information reveals that he took a trip from the Greensboro, North Carolina, location, to West Palm Beach, Florida,” on Aug. 14, a month before his arrest, according to the filing.

“On several days and times from August 18, 2024, to September 15, 2024, Routh’s cellular phone accessed cell towers situated near Trump International [Golf Course] and the previous President’s house at Mar- a-Lago” in Palm Beach, according to the filing.

And when he was arrested on Sept. 15 after fleeing his hiding spot just outside the golf course, Routh had in his possession a ” transcribed checklist of days in August, September, and October 2024 and places where the previous President had actually shown up or was anticipated to be existing” the filing said.

The filing, called a proffer, was made by prosecutors in support of their request that a judge order the 58-year-old Routh held without bail when he appears later Monday in U.S. District Court in West Palm Beach, Florida.

Routh so far has been charged with possession of a firearm by a convicted felon and possession of a firearm with an obliterated serial number.

Trump, who is the Republican nominee for president, narrowly survived an assassination attempt during a campaign rally in western Pennsylvania on July 13. One rally attendee was killed and several other people were wounded in that shooting, which ended when a Secret Service snipe killed the gunman.

Trump was playing on the fifth hole at the Trump International on the afternoon of Sept. 15 when a Secret Service agent conducting a security sweep ” identified the partly covered face of a guy in the brush along the fencing line” near the sixth hole’s green, the court filing said. The man was later identified as Routh.

The agent after seeing the barrel of a rifle aimed directly at him jumped off his golf cart, drew his weapon, and then fired at Routh, according to the filing.

Routh then fled the area.

Trump, who was several hundred yards away at the time, was ” promptly eliminated” from the course by Secret Service agents, the filing said.

Routh was apprehended by police about 45 minutes later after fleeing in a Nissan Xterra.

FBI agents who searched the area outside the golf course where he had first been spotted found an SKS semiautomatic rifle that had a scope attached and an extended magazine, according to the filing, which said there were 11 rounds found in the rifle, including ” a round in the chamber.” The rifle’s serial number was obliterated.

“The representatives additionally discovered an electronic video camera, a knapsack and a multiple-use purchasing bag hanging from the wire mesh fence,” the filing said.

Both the backpack and the shopping bag ” consisted of plates” which later ballistics testing showed ” can quiting tiny arms fire,” the filing said.

The Nissan that Routh was driving had a different license plate than the one registered to the vehicle, prosecutors said in the filing.

“During a search of the Nissan Xterra … FBI representatives discovered 2 added permit plates,” the filing said.

“The representatives additionally discovered 6 mobile phones. One of the cellular phone consisted of a Google search of just how to take a trip from Palm Beach County to Mexico,” the filing said. “The representatives additionally discovered 12 sets of handwear covers; a Hawaii Driver’s License in the Defendant’s name; a key in the Defendant’s name.”

And the agents found the handwritten list of dates where Trump had appeared or was expected to be present, according to the filing.

Also in the car was ” a note pad with loads of web pages full of names and telephone number concerning Ukraine, conversations regarding just how to sign up with fight in support of Ukraine, and keeps in mind slamming the federal governments of China and Russia,” the filing said.

FBI agents also reviewed a book apparently written by Routh in February 2023, tilted, “Ukraine’s Unwinnable War: The Fatal Flaw of Democracy, World Abandonment and the Global Citizen-Taiwan, Afghanistan, North Korea, WWIII and the End of Humanity.”