The person charged with attempting to kill President Trump, mendacity in wait with a gun as he loved a spherical of golf in Florida, tried to buy a rocket launcher and different military-grade weapons earlier than the thwarted assassination try, based on the Division of Justice.
Ryan Wesley Routh was arrested on Sept. 15 as he fled from his sniper’s perch at Trump Worldwide Golf Membership in West Palm Seashore. He was noticed hiding in some brush close to the sixth gap by Secret Service brokers conducting a fringe sweep, based on the indictment. They opened hearth after they realized Routh was armed with a SKS-type 7.62×39 caliber rifle.
Routh, who didn’t handle to fireside off any photographs himself, was captured a short while later as he traveled northbound on I-95. He’s dealing with 5 legal counts together with tried assassination and a weapons cost associated to the semiautomatic rifle investigators discovered within the golf course shrubbery the place the alleged would-be murderer had been hiding.
He has since pleaded not responsible to all counts.
“Send me an rpg [rocket-propelled grenade] or stinger and I will see what we can do,” he allegedly wrote. “… [Trump] is not good for Ukraine.”
Routh additionally despatched a picture of Trump’s airplane, writing that the president “gets on and off daily.” He went on to ask in regards to the potential prices of the weapons and whether or not they could possibly be “shipped.” Routh allegedly famous that, as a result of Ukraine was at conflict, such objects are “lost and destroyed daily” and that “one missing would not be noticed.”
“Attempting to purchase a destructive device to blow up President Trump’s airplane lies squarely within the realm of an attempt on his life,” the Division of Justice submitting reads, “and Routh’s statements about the purpose of the purchase — that he ‘need[s] equipment so that Trump cannot get elected’ — drives home his intent.”
