A test on the attempt to assassinate President Trump as a golf in South Florida last year is scheduled to begin on Monday, where a person accused of plotting a political hit is expected to protect his case.
Ryan Ruth, defendant, is facing five criminal allegations, including attempt to kill a chief presidential candidate. If convicted, he can withstand life imprisonment. He has pleaded not guilty.
Prosecutors say, after a 12-hour stake about a year ago, they pushed the snout of a rifle through the circumference of the Trump International Golf Club near their sixth hole, near their sixth hole. A secret service agent saw him and fired, and he ran away without shooting.
The dynamics of the case have shifted rapidly as Ruth evacuated its public guards and began to represent himself, as the defendant offered a series of unconventional proposals for the case.
After his petition for the exchange of a prisoner with North Korea or any other anti -American anti -American was dismissed, he suggested that his case should be decided this week from a round of golf with Trump.
“He wins that he can execute me, I win. I get my job,” Ruth wrote in a lettered letter that separated the President.
Federal prosecutors have already taken steps to limit what the Ruth can say in the test, warning it, otherwise he can try to mislead the gamblers that the court is a “hidden” evidence.
In a hearing on Tuesday, US District Judge Ellen Cannon said that the Ruth may use a podium while talking to the jury, but warned him against moving forward about the court.
“If you make a sudden movement, the martial will take decisive and quick action to give answers,” said, the judge said, According to Associated Press,
The cannon is ready to oversee his fort Pierce, Fla.. In 2020, the cannon enrolled for the bench by Trump, the cannon oversee his classified documents criminal prosecution and regularly praised Trump. The case was rejected after his election victory.
Before the raout fired his public defenders, they demanded recurrence of the cannon from the case, but He denied.
On Monday, the lawyers started questioning the potential gamblers, a process that is expected to take three days as the parties seek 12 gamblers and are four optional to listen to the case. Opening statement is scheduled to begin on Thursday, after which the prosecutors will dive into his case against Routh.
A northern Carolina Native, Ruth was Allegations were made last September. This incident occurred two months after Trump’s blood Another murder attempt During a campaign rally in Butler, PA.
Unlike Butler shooter, the law enforcement arrested Roth after driving Ruth at I-95 in county in north of Trump’s golf course in West Palm Beach.
The government has listed about four dozen witnesses that can testify to test, which includes law enforcement officers from most FBI, Secret Service and Palm Beach County Sheriff Office.
According to the FBI affidavit, after Ruth allegedly fled from the spot, the agents found a loaded rifle with two bags, a loaded rifle and other items. When a neighboring county was stopped by law enforcement, Ruth positively replied that he knew why he was being stopped, calling an affidavit.
Prosecutors can show the semi-liberated rifle found in Trump’s golf club and according to the government, pictures of Routh holding the same model weapon 33-Page Exhibition ListWhich was unheard of Tuesday.
The exhibition list also includes dozens of Routh Internet discoveries, including how long guns to buy guns and how long gun powder residue on clothing clothing remains for timely murder plots and Trump’s Campaign Schedule.
Ruth’s own Show And Witness The list is more center on his character, his intentions and attempts to talk for defense that he is not a dangerous man.
He demonstrated showing that he became an Eagle scout 45 years ago; An attempt to help his son’s lobby in mid -2000s New skate park In their northern Carolina city; And that local police honored him with “Law Enforcement Oscar” in 1991, called him “”Year -to -citizen,
However, it also includes Routh’s “Dear World” letter, which prosecutors want to show a jury, as well. The cannon has allowed the first three sentences to be introduced, but has not yet ruled the rest of it.
The alleged letter stated, “Dear world, it was a murder attempt on Donald Trump, but I am sorry that I failed you.” “I tried my best and gave all this gum to complete it to complete it.
The cannon already approved four character witnesses to testify in the case of Ruth, although he looked to bring “suspicious value” in his defense.
The judge has also allowed Ruth to call a former Marine Sniper on the stand to push back on the expected expert testimony from the government, including the FBI employees who investigated the alleged rifle of the Ruth.
Routh demanded sub -witnesses to several other witnesses including Trump.
The judge has blocked the trial for four weeks for the trial, but the prosecutors have said they hope that it will take less time.
Associated Press contributed.
