The suspect being investigated within the current obvious assassination try of former President Trump wrote a letter detailing his plans months prior, prosecutors alleged in courtroom paperwork filed Monday.
“Dear world, this was an assassination attempt on Donald Trump but I am so sorry I failed you. I tried my best and gave it all the gumption I could muster,” the alleged letter reads.
Prosecutors mentioned Ryan Routh, the 58-year-old suspect, put the letter inside a field and dropped it off with an unnamed witness “several months” earlier than he pushed the muzzle of a rifle by way of the perimeter of Trump’s West Palm Seaside golf course in Florida on Sept. 15.
The witness solely opened the field, which additionally contained ammunition and different letters, after studying of the incident.
The submitting additionally revealed that Routh’s cellphone pinged cell towers close to Trump’s golf course and Mar-a-Lago for practically a month within the lead-up to the incident. When looking Routh’s automotive, authorities additionally purportedly discovered a handwritten record of dates and venues the place Trump had appeared or was anticipated to be current.
The alleged letter went on to supply a $150,000 reward to “whomever can complete the job.”
“Everyone across the globe from the youngest to the oldest know that Trump is unfit to be anything, much less as US president. U.S. presidents must at bare minimum embody the moral fabric that is America and be kind, caring and selfless and always stand for humanity,” it reads.
A photograph of the primary web page of the letter was connected as a part of prosecutors’ written arguments for why Routh ought to proceed to be detained. He’s scheduled to seem in courtroom later Monday for a detention listening to.
Routh faces costs of possessing a gun whereas a felon and having an illegally obliterated serial quantity on his firearm. Prosecutors are anticipated to hunt an indictment from a grand jury within the coming days that might embrace further costs.
Their new submitting indicated that Routh traveled from the Greensboro, N.C., space to West Palm Seaside on Aug. 14.
After arriving in Florida, prosecutors say Routh’s cellphone pinged towers close to Trump’s golf course and his Mar-a-Lago residence “on multiple days and times” within the weeks earlier than the incident.
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