Ryan Routh, the man accused of trying to kill Donald Trump in the Trump West Palm Beach Golf Field last year, was convicted of the five charges.
He was removed by force from the courtroom after the announcement of the verdict after what the American district judge Aileen Cannon described as a “burst.”
Routh tried to stab with a pen in the middle of chaos after the verdict was transmitted, according to a source. He left marks on his neck, but was not injured, said the source.
Four armed marshals surrounded Routh, who seemed to stand once the jury left the courtroom. He surrounded by the marshal, who took him out of the courtroom.
Sara Routh, her daughter sitting in the courtroom, shouted: “Dad, I love you. Do not do anything. I will get you.”
“He did not hurt anyone. This is not fair. All this is manipulated. You are a —– s,” he shouted before being escorted by the courtroom.
Subsequently, Judge Cannon allowed Routh to return to the courtroom in shackles and escorted by the sheriffs. He was informed that he will be sentenced on December 18.
In this image published by Martin County, Florida, the Sheriff’s Office, the agents of the law arrest Ryan Routh, the suspicious man in the apparent attempt to murder of Donald Trump, on September 15, 2024.
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According to federal prosecutors, some of the jurors saw the outbreak as they left.
“The jury has not yet left the room at the time of the defendant’s conduct,” said a prosecutor.
Judge Cannon, who previously supervised and dismissed one of Trump’s Criminal cases, thanked the lawyers and Routh for their time, “despite their outburst today.”
Routh faced five criminal charges, including the attempt to murder an important presidential candidate, using a firearm to promote a crime, assault a federal officer, have a firearm as a criminal and use a weapon with a disfigured serial number. He faces life in prison.
The jury deliberated for approximately two hours on Monday morning before requesting to see the rifle, the ammunition and the magazine that Routh supposedly used.
Judge Cannon allowed jurors to see the exhibitions in the open court.
Routh, who represented himself despite lacking education or legal experience, argued during his final argument that he did not intend to shoot Trump and lacks “the ability to kill.”
“The main opportunity was for the defendant to shoot the president,” Routh said in an argument of closing of 55 minutes. “Why didn’t the trigger thrown?”
In a brief refutation, federal prosecutor John Shipley argued that Routh should be convicted because he still gave multiple measures to carry out his alleged murder plot, doubting doubts about Routh’s central argument that he lacked the intention of shooting Trump.
“You have heard the evidence. This is not a peaceful and not violent man,” said Shipley.
The United States Attorney General, Pam Bondi, publishing on social networks after the announcement of the verdict, wrote: “Today’s guilt verdict against Trump’s possible murderer, Ryan Routh, illustrates the commitment of the Department of Justice to punish those who participate in political violence.”
“This murder attempt was not only an attack against our president, but an affront to our own nation,” Bondi wrote.
Prosecutors claim that Routh organized a Methodical plan -Inal buying a military degree, investigating Trump’s movements and using a dozen burner phones, to kill Trump based on political complaints.
Hidden in the bushes of the Palm Beach Golf Field of Trump and armed with a rifle, Routh allegedly entered a few hundred yards From the then presidential candidate before a secret service agent saw his rifle drawing from the tree line.
Routh supposedly fled the scene, but was then arrested by a local sheriff office in a nearby interest.
Routh spent three hours on Monday presenting his defense case after prosecutors called more than three dozen witnesses in the last two weeks in the case of the government.
Routh called a firearm expert and two of his lifelong friends in his defense.
A view of the building of the United States Justice of Alto Lee Adams, where the trial against Ryan Routh will begin in Fort Pierce, Florida, on September 11, 2025.
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“Is your personal opinion about me that I am peaceful and gentle and not violent?” Routh asked his second witness, old friend Marshall Hinshaw.
“I would say that” said Hinshaw. “I wouldn’t expect you to harm anyone, Ryan.”
Routh argued that he lacked the ability to kill Trump, although he seemed to admit some of the prosecution’s accusations during the trial. He acknowledged that he was the author of a letter that prosecutors say he described his plans to kill Trump.
It was cut several times on Monday by the American district judge Aileen Cannon, who ended the day with a warning for Routh before the closing of Tuesday.
“Any argument you make … It must be reasonably linked to the admitted evidence. Do you understand?” The judge asked Routh, saying that any deviation “will cause a problem.”
“Yes, honor,” Routh said.
Luke Baro de ABC News contributed to this report.
