Man charged with attempted assassination of Trump at Florida golf course as case is assigned to Judge Aileen Cannon

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Posted on 09/24/2024 3:42:54 PM PDT by Presbyterian Reporter

Prosecutors on Tuesday filed the charge of attempted assassination of a major presidential candidate against Ryan Wesley Routh, the man they say camped outside of Donald Trump’s West Palm Beach golf course for hours on end, armed with a rifle that he pointed through a chain-link fence with a clear shot to the next hole where the former president was headed on September 15.

Routh, allegedly “stalked” Trump in Florida for more than a month, prosecutors told a federal magistrate judge on Monday, with cell phone data allegedly placing Routh at the golf course as well as Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence across several days between August 18 and the day Routh was arrested.

Routh was originally charged with two gun-related offenses, including obliteration of a firearm’s serial number and possessing a firearm while a convicted felon, while the investigation continued.

Judge Aileen Cannon, a Trump appointee who oversaw, and later threw out, the federal criminal classified documents case against the former president, was randomly assigned to oversee the case, court documents show.

The charges against Routh also include possessing a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence and assaulting a federal officer, in addition to the two previous gun charges Routh faced.

According to the indictment, Routh “did forcibly assault, oppose, impede, intimidate, and interfere with ‘Secret Service Special Agent #1,’ an officer and employee of the United States.”

Routh is scheduled to be arraigned on Monday.

In this image from video provided by the US Senate, Aileen M. Cannon speaks remotely during a Senate Judiciary Committee oversight nomination hearing to be US District Court for the Southern District of Florida on July 29, 2020, in Washington, DC.

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Does this mean the State of Florida is now in charge of this case?

To: Presbyterian Reporter

2 posted on 09/24/2024 3:44:57 PM PDT by TheThirdRuffian (Orange is the new brown in)

To: Presbyterian Reporter

3 posted on 09/24/2024 3:44:59 PM PDT by jpp113

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