U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon of the Southern District of Florida sentenced Ryan Routh to life in prison plus seven years for attempting to assassinate President Donald Trump in September 2024.
In September 2025, a jury found Routh guilty on all five counts:
Routh spoke to Cannon for about 15 minutes before she interrupted him.
Cannon told Routh that “he is an evil person who intended to kill Trump and would have done so if it hadn’t been for a Secret Service agent who disrupted the plot.”
[Routh attorney Martin] Roth said Wednesday that Routh “stands by his plea of not guilty” and that Routh has “objected to any claim that he attempted to murder” anyone.—Roth argued that, “It would have taken less than an instant [for Routh] to pull the trigger but the defendant did not,” and, “At the moment of truth he did not fire.”The judge pushed back, noting Routh’s history of arrests, to which Roth said, “He’s a complex person, I’ll give the court that, but he has a very good core.”
Assistant U.S. Attorney John Shipley answered that the assassination “would have been an easy kill” if it weren’t for Secret Service Agent Fercano.
“This was intended to be a cold-blooded concealed kill… to make sure the American people didn’t even have the chance to vote for him,” added Shipley.
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