ATTEMPTED TRUMP ASSASSIN TO LEARN SENTENCE, WITH PROSECUTORS SEEKING LIFE
Ryan Routh is seen in May, 2022 holding a banner stating ‘World Help Us’ during a demonstration in in Kyiv, Ukraine. (Artem Gvozdkov/Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images)
Ryan Routh is seen in May 2022 holding a banner stating ‘World Help Us’ during a demonstration in Kyiv, Ukraine. (Artem Gvozdkov/Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images)
Prosecutors pushed for the 59-year-old to get a life sentence, while Routh’s attorney, Martin Roth, asked the judge for 20 years in prison on top of a seven-year, mandatory sentence for one of the gun convictions.
Roth said Wednesday that Routh « stands by his plea of not guilty » and that Routh has « objected to any claim that he attempted to murder » anyone.
« This would have been an easy kill. And the kill would have happened without [Secret Service] Agent Fercano, » Assistant U.S. Attorney John Shipley later said. « This was intended to be a cold-blooded concealed kill… to make sure the American people didn’t even have the chance to vote for him [Trump]. »
Roth argued that, « It would have taken less than an instant [for Routh] to pull the trigger but the defendant did not, » and, « At the moment of truth he did not fire. »
