Goofy Ryan Routh was all set to shoot candidate Trump when he was discovered and later arrested. His jury trial case ended today with a guilty verdict on all counts, after which he tried to stab himself in the neck with a pen.
The man who attempted to assassinate Donald Trump at a Florida golf course last year tried to stab himself in the neck with a pen shortly after being found guilty of all counts Tuesday.
Officers quickly swarmed him and dragged him out of the courthouse.
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Routh had been charged with attempting to assassinate a major presidential candidate, possessing a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence, assaulting a federal officer, possessing a firearm and ammunition as a convicted felon, and possessing a firearm with an obliterated serial number.
He had pleaded not guilty to the charges and defended himself in court.
Prosecutors provided evidence that Routh had spent many weeks plotting the attack, which, piled on top of his odd history, still leaves us with unanswered questions. Who was funding this guy, why, and was the assassination attempt part of that program?
None of that appears to have been resolved during his trial, so we are left with a few lingering mysteries, though not nearly as mysterious as Wesley Crooks, the Las Vegas Mass Shooting, and the list goes on.
