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A jury has found Ryan Routh guilty of plotting to kill Donald Trump at one of his Florida golf courses last year.
The verdict followed two hours of deliberations on Tuesday.
Routh, who did not choose to have a lawyer throughout the proceedings and a fast-paced trial, had planned the attack at the president’s Trump International Golf Club West Palm Beach nearly one year ago.
He was armed with a semiautomatic rifle while then-candidate Trump was playing golf. He was arrested September 15, 2024 after Secret Service spotted him hiding in shrubbery with an SKS-style rifle.
The aborted attack arrived just two months after Trump was nearly fatally shot during a campaign rally last July.
At multiple points during the trial, Routh, 59, was reprimanded by District Judge Aileen Cannon for disrupting the proceedings, asking irrelevant questions, or making statements that were beyond the scope of the case.
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