Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier announced the state charged Ryan Routh, the man accused of attempting to assassinate then-presidential candidate Donald Trump, with attempted first-degree murder and terrorism.
On Sunday, September 15, 2024, an FBI agent caught Routh by the fence around the Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, FL, as Trump golfed.
The agent saw the barrel of an AK-47 poking through the fence.
Uthmeier noted how former President Joe Biden’s administration hindered Florida’s attempt to file state charges against Routh:
The leadership of US Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel was instrumental in preserving Florida’s sovereign authority to do what is right and bring justice where it is due. We now have a federal government willing to work together to pursue justice.Attempting to take the life of a former president and a leading presidential candidate isn’t just an attack on one man. This was a political attack against our Republican form of government and our shared American values. We cannot allow justice to be delayed or denied.
(Thank you, Uthmeier, because we are a republic…NOT a democracy!)
It was the second assassination attempt on Trump within months.
Gov. Ron DeSantis signed an executive order demanding that local and state law enforcement work with their federal counterparts.
The DOJ did not even add assassination charges against Routh until DeSantis signed the order. The feds only charged him with federal gun crimes at first.
A month later, then-Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody sued the DOJ, alleging the department blocked the state from investigating the assassination attempt.
Moody said federal officials told Florida officials the state “may not conduct its own investigation, may not interview witnesses, and may only cooperate with the federal government’s investigation.”
“Because § 351(f) does not prohibit such conduct, and because it would violate the Tenth Amendment if it reached so far, Florida sues to vindicate its sovereign interest to investigate violations of state law, as delay may impact the outcome of any prosecution,” added Moody.
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