The Prosecutor’s Office made public the letter to request that <a href="http://www.time.news/what-we-know-about-the-possible-assassination-attempt-against-donald-trump/" title="what we know about the possible assassination attempt against Donald Trump“>Ryan Wesley Routh be kept detained, within the framework of a preliminary hearing in a Palm Beach court.
Ryan Wesley Routh was arrested on suspicion of an assassination attempt against Donald Trump on his golf course in Florida, and in the last hours A letter was revealed where he revealed his desire to kill the former president of the United States.
The document was in a box that he gave to a friend, who handed it over to the police on September 18, after learning of Routh’s arrest. In it, the suspect of wanting to kill Trump warned of the failure of his plan, reported El País.
The Prosecutor’s Office made public the letter to request that the person involved be detained, within the framework of a preliminary hearing in a Palm Beach court.
“This was an assassination attempt against Donald Trump, but I regret that it failed. I did what I could and used all the courage I could muster. “Now it’s up to you to complete the job and I will offer $150,000 to whoever can do it,” emphasizes Ryan Routh, who charged that Trump “ended relations with Iran like a child and now the Middle East has fallen apart.”
Routh, a 58-year-old construction worker and ardent supporter of Ukraine’s resistance to Russia, visited the former president’s golf course for a month before being discovered by the Secret Service.
The man had a semi-automatic rifle, with a telescopic sight and ammunition, as well as a digital camera and two backpacks containing ceramic plates, which he intended to use as a bulletproof vest.
However, Routh’s plan did not come to fruition after a Secret Service agent reviewed the area where hole 6 is located before Donald Trump’s arrival. seeing that the barrel of his rifle was visible in the bushes, opening fire.
Although Routh fled the scene, a witness identified his car and its license plate, which allowed him to be detained by the police an hour later, and he was charged with the crimes of illegal possession of a firearm and manipulation of it to erase its number. of registration.