The case has been assigned to U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon, who in July dismissed a separate criminal case charging Trump with illegally hoarding classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida.
By Eric Tucker and Curt Anderson, Associated PressA motorcade leaves the Paul G. Rogers Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, after Ryan Wesley Routh, 58, suspected in an apparent assassination attempt targeting former President Donald Trump, attended a hearing, Monday, Sept. 23, 2024, in West Palm Beach, Fla.
The indictment had been foreshadowed during a court hearing Monday in which prosecutors successfully argued for the 58-year-old Routh to remain behind bars as a flight risk and a threat to public safety. Routh did not fire any rounds and did not have Trump in his line of sight, officials have said, but left behind a digital camera, a backpack, a loaded SKS-style rifle with a scope and a plastic bag containing food.The arrest came two months after Trump was shot and wounded in the ear in an assassination attempt during a campaign rally in Pennsylvania.
Trump complained Monday, before the attempted assassination charges were brought, that the Justice Department was “mishandling and downplaying” the case by bringing charges that were a “slap on the wrist.”
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