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Ryan Routh sentenced to life in prison for attempted assassination of Trump
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Ryan Routh was sentenced on Wednesday for attempting to assassinate then-presidential candidate Donald Trump while he played golf at his Florida country club in 2024.
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In 2024, Ryan Routh aimed a rifle through shrubbery as then-presidential candidate Donald Trump played golf at his Florida country club, but a Secret Service agent stopped the attack.
Ryan Routh was sentenced on Wednesday for attempting to assassinate then-presidential candidate Donald Trump while he played golf at his Florida country club in 2024.
Routh was convicted of attempting to assassinate Trump on a golf course. By Peter Charalambous February 4, 2026, 11:15 AM U.S. Judge Aileen Cannon on Wednesday sentenced Ryan Routh to spend the rest of his life in prison for attempting to assassinate President Donald Trump on his Florida golf course…
A Secret Service agent saw Ryan Routh with a rifle at a golf course in Florida and fired on him in 2024 as Trump was golfing. He was found guilty of attempting to assassinate a presidential candidate.
Ryan Routh, convicted of attempting to assassinate Donald Trump at one of his Florida golf clubs, faces sentencing on Wednesday as prosecutors are pushing for a life sentence.
After plotting, stalking and lying in wait for the right moment to shoot and kill then-former President Donald Trump, the man who set up a sniper’s nest on the edge of Trump’s West Palm Beach golf course in Florida and was thwarted by a Secret Service agent, will be sentenced Wednesday.
Ryan Routh, who was convicted of trying to kill Trump in 2024, represented himself for most of the trial. He was sentenced to life in prison Wednesday.
Ryan Routh, the man who tried to assassinate Donald Trump in 2024 while the Republican politician was running for president, has been sentenced to life.
The madman convicted of lying in wait for hours outside President Trump's Florida golf course in a foiled plot to kill the then-Republican candidate was sentenced Wednesday.
Ryan Routh was sentenced Wednesday to life in prison plus seven years following his 2024 assassination attempt against then-presidential candidate Donald Trump in Florida.
Prosecutors had been asking for a life sentence for Routh, who was convicted of trying to kill Trump, then a presidential candidate, at Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach in September 2024.
Ryan Routh was convicted of trying to assassinate a major presidential candidate, using a firearm in furtherance of a crime, assaulting a federal officer, and related charges.
