Alleged Trump gunman wrote of 'assassination attempt,' prosecutors say
Florida golf course in an apparent bid to kill the former president wrote a letter months earlier describing an «assassination attempt» and offering a bounty on Trump's life, U.S. prosecutors said on Monday.
Ryan Routh, 58, has been charged with two gun crimes after he allegedly pointed a rifle through the tree line on Sept. 15 while the Republican presidential candidate was playing golf at his course in West Palm Beach, according to a criminal complaint. He has not yet entered a plea.
Routh is due to appear at a hearing scheduled to begin at 11 a.m. EDT (1500 GMT) on Monday in which prosecutors where will ask a judge to keep him in jail until his trial. In a court filing released before the hearing, prosecutors said that several months prior to the incident, Routh dropped off a handwritten letter addressed to «the world» that offered a bounty on Trump.
«This was an assassination attempt on Donald Trump but I failed you,» the suspect wrote, according to the filing. «I will offer $150,000 to whomever can complete the job.»
The letter was found in a box handed over by an unidentified civilian witness that also included ammunition, a metal pipe and four phones, prosecutors said.
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