Attempted Trump assassin Ryan Routh to be sentenced Wednesday
Ryan Routh, convicted in 2025, faces life imprisonment for plotting to kill Trump in 2024 to disrupt the presidential election, prosecutors say.
- U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon will preside Wednesday in Fort Pierce as prosecutors ask for a life sentence for Ryan Routh, convicted of attempting to assassinate Trump.
- Prosecutors say Routh sought military-grade weapons, including an RPG, and framed his actions as protests tied to Ukraine and U.S. politics.
- Secret Service agent Fercano testified he spotted Routh and opened fire, causing him to drop an SKS-style rifle with scope and flee in a black Nissan Xterra, where officers found multiple cell phones, a list of flights, armor plates, and extra ammunition.
- Last month, the U.S. Department of Justice asked for life, citing Routh as unrepentant and a threat, while defense attorney Martin L. Roth seeks a decades-long variance and a seven-year gun term.
- Routh represented himself at trial and, as the verdict was delivered, tried to stab himself in the neck with a pen, prompting officers to restrain and shackle him, leading the judge to move sentencing after he accepted counsel.
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Ryan Routh to be sentenced Wednesday for attempted assassination of Trump in 2024 at Florida golf course
After plotting, stalking and lying in wait for the right moment to shoot and kill then-former President Donald Trump, the man who set up a sniper’s nest on the edge of Trump’s West Palm Beach golf course in Florida and was thwarted by a Secret Service agent, will be sentenced Wednesday.
Attempted Trump Assassin Ryan Routh To Be Sentenced. Here’s What You Need To Know.
The man who attempted to assassinate President Donald Trump at a Florida golf course during the 2024 presidential campaign may never step outside of a federal prison after Wednesday.Ryan Routh, 59, will be sentenced by U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon for plotting to shoot Trump while he golfed at Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Florida, in September 2024. Routh was convicted in September 2025 of attempted assassination of a m…
Prosecutors seek life sentence for man who tried to shoot Trump at a Florida golf course
Federal prosecutors are asking that a man convicted of trying to assassinate President Donald Trump be sentenced to life in prison.
Ryan Routh, convicted of trying to assassinate Donald Trump, to be sentenced
A Secret Service agent saw Ryan Routh with a rifle at a golf course in Florida and fired on him in 2024 as Trump was golfing. He was found guilty of attempting to assassinate a presidential candidate.
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