Prosecutors relaxation their case in trial of man accused in tried Trump assassination : NPR

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Lothar Speer/by way of AP FORT PIERCE, Fla. - Federal prosecutors offered their closing witness on Friday within the case towards Ryan Routh, the person charged with attempting to assassinate President Donald Trump when he was working for president.

A Secret Service agent mentioned he foiled Routh's alleged try to shoot Trump Sept. 15, 2024. The agent testified he noticed a rifle barrel poking by a fence on the fringe of the property. After the agent fired, the gunman fled with out taking pictures the weapon.

FBI Supervisory Particular Agent Kimberly McGreevy spent hours on the stand Thursday and Friday detailing proof that tracks Routh's actions a month previous to the tried taking pictures.

McGreevy drew on knowledge from Routh's cell telephones—he had six of them—and surveillance digital camera video to trace Trump's actions. The agent testified that the accused moved between Mar-a-Lago, Trump's golf membership, the airport the place the president retains his airplane and a truck cease the place Routh was residing in his SUV.

The FBI agent mentioned that in that point, "He was residing at that truck cease, conducting bodily and digital surveillance … and stalking the previous President."

McGreevy additionally detailed Routh's alleged buy of the SKS-style rifle seized on the golf course by federal brokers and his try to purchase a extra highly effective weapon.

In keeping with McGreevy's testimony, Routh despatched a textual content to his girlfriend in Hawaii, asking, "What number of bullets does an SKS rifle maintain? An AK-47 can shoot to 500 meters. I've to get to 400."

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AFPTV/AFP/Getty Photographs Routh is representing himself within the trial after he informed U.S. District Choose Aileen Cannon that he was sad together with his court-appointed legal professionals. However he is had some setbacks. Prosecutors are in search of to dam all the proof he needs to introduce in his protection. Choose Cannon has but to rule on that, however she has already rejected most of his requests to subpoena witnesses.

When he begins his protection case Monday, Routh is anticipated to name a firearms skilled and two character witnesses whom he says will communicate to his "peacefulness, gentleness and non-violence."