Trump assassination attempt: Ryan Routh evidence revealed

Accused would-be assassin Ryan Routh stalked Donald Trump for a month in Florida before he was arrested on Sept. 15 last week after being spotted laying in wait with a semi-automatic rifle just outside a golf course where the former president was playing, federal prosecutors revealed in a court filing Monday.

The filing also disclosed that months earlier the 58-year-old Routh had given another person a box containing a handwritten letter that said, “This was an assassination attempt on Donald Trump but I failed you.”

Routh’s cell phone data shows that he traveled from the Greensboro, North Carolina, area, to West Palm Beach, Florida,” on Aug. 14, a month before his arrest, according to the filing.

“On multiple days and times from August 18, 2024, to September 15, 2024, Routh’s cell phone accessed cell towers located near Trump International [Golf Course] and the former President’s residence at Mar-a-Lago” in Palm Beach, according to the filing.

And when he was arrested on Sept. 15 after fleeing his hiding spot just outside the golf course, Routh had in his possession a “handwritten list of dates in August, September, and October 2024 and venues where the former President had appeared or was expected to be present” the filing said.

The filing, called a proffer, was made by prosecutors in support of their request that a judge order the 58-year-old Routh held without bail when he appears later Monday in U.S. District Court in West Palm Beach, Florida.

Routh so far has been charged with possession of a firearm by a convicted felon and possession of a firearm with an obliterated serial number.

Trump, who is the Republican nominee for president, narrowly survived an assassination attempt during a campaign rally in western Pennsylvania on July 13. One rally attendee was killed and several other people were wounded in that shooting, which ended when a Secret Service snipe killed the gunman.

Trump was playing on the fifth hole at the Trump International on the afternoon of Sept. 15 when a Secret Service agent conducting a security sweep “spotted the partially obscured face of a man in the brush along the fence line” near the sixth hole’s green, the court filing said. The man was later identified as Routh.

The agent after seeing the barrel of a rifle aimed directly at him jumped off his golf cart, drew his weapon, and then fired at Routh, according to the filing.

Routh then fled the area.

Trump, who was several hundred yards away at the time, was “immediately removed” from the course by Secret Service agents, the filing said.

Routh was apprehended by police about 45 minutes later after fleeing in a Nissan Xterra.

FBI agents who searched the area outside the…