Fort Pierce, Florida (AP) – The man who tried to assassinate Donald Trump at the Golf Stadium in Florida last year stabbed himself in the neck with a pen shortly after his conviction of all charges on Tuesday.
Soon the officers leaked and pulled him out of the courtroom.
The jury consisting of five men and seven women found that Ryan Roth is guilty of all the charges he faces after about two hours of deliberations.
The jurors were on their way out of the courtroom after the announcement of the ruling when Ruth grabbed a pen from an office and tried to stab himself in the neck.
While the guards were dragging him from the courtroom, Sarah Ruth, the daughter of Ruth, started screaming, “My father loved you, I do not do anything. I will get you out. No one hurts.”
She continued to scream when her father was transferred from the courtroom, saying that the case against him was forged. She went outside the court, where she and her brother Adam Ruth waited for a guard gate until their father was expelled.
Again inside the courtroom, Ruth was returned before the judge. He no longer wears a jacket and tie, and was restricted. There were no signs of blood on his shirt. The judge announced that Roth will be sentenced to December 18 at 9:30 am, to face life.
Defense lawyer did not prepare for a comment after the verdict.
Ruth was accused of an attempt to assassinate a major presidential candidate, and has a firearm in promoting the crime of violence, attacking a federal officer, possession of a firearm and ammunition as condemned crimes and possession of a firearm with a limited serial number. He admitted that he was not guilty of charges and defended himself in court.
Prosecutors said that Ruth spent weeks conspiring to kill Trump before targeting a gun through bushes, as the Republicans played the golf on September 15, 2024, at West Palm Beach Contra club.
Ruth told the jury in his final argument that he did not intend to kill anyone on that day.
“It is difficult for me to believe that a crime happened if the trigger is never withdrawn,” said Ruth. He pointed out that he could see Trump while he was on the road towards the sixth green in the golf course and indicated that he could also launch a secret service agent he faced if he intended to harm anyone.
Ruth, 59, practiced his constitutional right not to testify to his defense. His case rested Monday morning after interrogating only three witnesses – a firearms expert and two witnesses – for a total of about three hours. On the other hand, the prosecutors spent seven days in the interrogation of 38 witnesses.
Prosecutor Bam Bondi said in a publication on the X that the guilty ruling “clarifies the commitment of the Ministry of Justice to punish those who participate in political violence.”
“This was not only an attempt to assassinate the attack on our president, but was an insult to our nation,” Bondi said.
“This ruling sends a clear message. The attempt to assassinate the presidential candidate is an attack on our republic and the rights of every citizen.” “The Ministry of Justice will follow the relentlessness of those who are trying to silence political voices, nor an enemy, foreign or local, will heat the will of the American people.”
American boycott judge, Eileen Cannon, asked Ruth to represent himself after two sessions in July. The United States Supreme Court considered that the criminal defendants have the right to represent themselves in the court’s procedures, as long as they can show a judge that they are eligible to give up their right to defend them by a lawyer. The former defense lawyer in Ruth has served as a lawyer for preparation since he took his defense and was present during the past two weeks.
With the narration of what happened at the Golf Stadium, a secret service agent witnessed earlier in the trial that he had monitored Ruth before Trump appeared. The client said that Ruth was aiming at his rifle to the agent, who opened the fire, causing Ruth to drop his weapon and flee without firing a bullet.
The law enforcement obtained the help of those who witnessed that he saw a person fleeing the area after hearing gunshots. Then the witness was transferred in a police helicopter to the near highway where Ruth was arrested, and the witness said he confirmed that he was the person he saw.
Just nine weeks ago, Trump escaped an attempt to his life while he was in Bater, Pennsylvania. This gunman released eight shots, with a single bullet that sponsors Trump’s ear. Then the armed was shot by the secret service meter sniper.
Ruth was a construction worker in North Carolina, who has moved in recent years to Hawaii. Witnesses told Associated Press that the self -designed mercenary leader, Ruth spoke to anyone listening to his dangerous and violent plans sometimes to include himself into conflicts all over the world.
In the early days of Russia’s war in Ukraine, Ruth tried to recruit soldiers from Afghanistan, Moldova and Taiwan to fight the Russians. In his hometown of Greensburo, North Carolina, he was arrested in 2002 due to the stopping of traffic and the fortress of the officers with a fully automatic rifle and a “weapon of mass destruction”, which turned out to be explosive with 10 -inch valves (25 ° C), according to the police.
In 2010, the police looked at an owned warehouse and found more than 100 stolen elements, from energy tools and construction supplies to kayak boats and spa basins. In both the two criminal cases, the rulers gave Ruth either under observation or a suspended penalty.
Besides federal charges, Ruth also acknowledged that he was not guilty of state charges of terrorism and attempted murder.
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