The federal trial of Ryan Routh, accused of attempting to assassinate former President Donald Trump during a round of golf in September 2024, resumes Monday after a week that saw jurors seated, opening statements delivered and a flurry of early testimony.<\/p>\n
In just two days of testimony last week, prosecutors called 13 witnesses \u2014 mostly FBI and Secret Service agents \u2014 to walk jurors through the investigation and security response to the alleged attack.<\/p>\n
Prosecutors opened Thursday by reading Ryan Routh\u2019s own words \u2014 ‘Trump cannot be elected’ and ‘I need Trump to go away’ \u2014 to argue he plotted for months, traveled from Hawaii, and positioned himself at Trump International Golf Club with a rifle chambered and ready to fire. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Routh, representing himself, delivered a seven-minute opening statement that Trump-appointed Judge Aileen Cannon cut short after he veered into rambling remarks about Adolf Hitler and the Wright brothers, at one point telling jurors, ‘This case means absolutely nothing. A life has been lived to the fullest.’<\/p>\n
The week\u2019s witnesses included a Secret Service agent who testified Routh smiled at him while pointing a rifle ‘directly at my face,’ a civilian who identified Routh fleeing in a black Nissan Xterra, and bomb squad and FBI agents who described the alleged sniper\u2019s hideout \u2014 backpacks clipped to a fence, a camera zip-tied to it, and Vienna sausages on the ground. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Jurors were also shown photos prosecutors said linked Routh\u2019s clothing to the scene, including pants with a red stain prosecutors compared to red paint on a bag recovered from the brush. Routh\u2019s cross-examinations were brief and sometimes bizarre, from asking witnesses ‘Is it good to be alive?‘<\/i> to quizzing them on AK-47 mechanics.<\/p>\n
Judge Aileen Cannon, a Trump appointee, told jurors to expect the trial to go until 5:30 p.m. daily. More FBI agents and law enforcement witnesses are expected to take the stand Monday as the government continues presenting evidence.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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