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The antheral suspected by the FBI of readying to termination former President Donald Trump possessed a database that included dates from August to October of venues wherever Trump had appeared oregon was expected to beryllium -- and is suspected to person traveled adjacent the play people wherever the incidental took spot and Trump's Mar-a-Lago edifice aggregate times successful the period starring up to his arrest, prosecutors said successful a detention filing connected Monday.
In their memo, prosecutors further revealed that suspect Ryan Wesley Routh allegedly sent a missive "several months prior" to his apprehension to a civilian witnesser that stated, "This was an assassination effort connected Donald Trump but I failed you."
Man accused successful evident assassination effort wrote enactment indicating helium intended to termination Trump
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Routh, 58, is expected to look earlier a justice connected Monday. He was ordered to look successful a West Palm Beach national tribunal for a pre-detention hearing.
Routh has already been charged with possession of a firearm arsenic a convicted felon and possession of a firearm with an obliterated serial fig for the Sept. 15 incidental that took spot astatine Trump International Golf Club.
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According to prosecutors' detention memo, erstwhile searching Routh's car pursuing his apprehension agents recovered a full of six compartment phones -- 1 of which contained a google hunt of however to question from Palm Beach County to Mexico.
Agents further recovered "a notebook with dozens of pages filled with names and telephone numbers pertaining to Ukraine, discussions astir however to articulation combat connected behalf of Ukraine, and notes criticizing the governments of China and Russia."
Cell tract records obtained by the FBI confirmed Routh archetypal traveled from Greensboro, North Carolina, to West Palm Beach connected Aug. 14, and "on aggregate days and times" from Aug. 18 to Sep. 15 his compartment telephone was located adjacent the play people arsenic good arsenic Trump's residence astatine Mar-a-Lago. They did not database the circumstantial dates oregon the nonstop fig of times Routh is suspected to person traveled adjacent Trump's properties.
Trump was playing play connected the people erstwhile a Secret Service cause spotted a weapon tube poking retired from the histrion enactment adjacent the sixth green, according to investigators.
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The cause past fired successful the absorption of the firearm and saw Routh fleeing the country and entering his Nissan vehicle, according to the transgression complaint.
Routh was allegedly 300 to 500 yards distant from the erstwhile president and did not occurrence a shot, according to investigators. Trump was not successful Routh's enactment of sight, according to the Secret Service.
Witnesses reported the licence sheet fig to authorities, and the fishy was stopped and detained.
In the country of the histrion enactment wherever the fishy was seen, agents recovered a integer camera, 2 bags, including a backpack, and a loaded SKS-style 7.62x39 caliber firearm with a scope, according to the complaint. The serial fig connected the firearm "was obliterated and unreadable to the bare eye," the ailment states.
Routh did not participate a plea for his archetypal charges and his arraignment is scheduled for Sept. 30.
The probe is ongoing and the FBI has been going done Routh's societal media and transgression past and speaking with household members to get much clues.
Investigators further revealed that 3 days aft they arrested Routh, a civilian witnesser contacted them with accusation that Routh had dropped disconnected a container astatine their residence respective months agone that contained "ammunition, a metallic pipe, miscellaneous gathering materials, tools, 4 phones, and assorted letters."
"One handwritten letter, addressed to "The World," stated, among different things, "This was an assassination effort connected Donald Trump but I failed you," the filing said. "I tried my champion and gave it each the gumption I could muster. It is up to you present to decorativeness the job; and I volition connection $150,000 to whomever tin implicit the job."
Routh suggested Iran should consciousness "free to assassinate Trump" and himself successful a self-published publication from February 2023.
In the book, which ABC News has unearthed pursuing Sunday's incident, Routh directed an apology toward Iran, seemingly for his erstwhile enactment for Trump, who withdrew the U.S. successful 2018 from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) atomic woody with Iran.
Agents further said they had reviewed a publication authored by Routh, which has antecedently been publically reported on, titled, "Ukraine's Unwinnable War: The Fatal Flaw of Democracy, World Abandonment and the Global Citizen-Taiwan, Afghanistan, North Korea, WWIII and the End of Humanity."
In it, Routh wrote helium "must instrumentality portion of the blasted for the [person] that we elected for our adjacent president that ended up being brainless, but I americium antheral capable to accidental that I misjudged and made a unspeakable mistake and Iran I apologize. You are escaped to assassinate Trump arsenic good arsenic maine for that mistake successful judgement and the dismantling of the deal. No 1 present successful the US seems to person the balls to enactment earthy enactment to enactment oregon adjacent unnatural selection."
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The fishy was besides a booster of a fig of causes, including the warfare successful Ukraine, an ABC News investigation of his evident societal media profiles shows.
As authorities effort to unravel the motive and details of the case, sources said investigators were looking astatine whether Routh was frustrated with Trump's presumption connected Ukraine.
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