Ryan Routh has been found guilty of attempting to assassinate President Donald Trump last year at his Florida golf course.
On Tuesday, the jury of five men and seven women found Routh guilty on all counts that he was facing after two hours of deliberation.
Routh, 59, had been charged with attempting to assassinate a major presidential candidate, possessing a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence, assaulting a federal officer, possessing a firearm and ammunition as a convicted felon and possessing a firearm with an obliterated serial number. He had pleaded not guilty to the charges and defended himself in court.
Following the final verdict, Routh attempted to stab himself in the neck with a pen and U.S. Marshals had to step in to prevent Routh from harming himself.
The pen Routh used to try to stab himself was a flexible pen designed to prevent people in custody from using it as a weapon, so he did not puncture his skin or otherwise hurt himself, according to a person familiar with the matter. The person could not publicly disclose specific details of the incident and spoke on the condition of anonymity.
His daughter Sara Routh was screaming, “Dad I love you don’t do anything. I’ll get you out. He didn’t hurt anybody.”
She continued screaming inside the courtroom as her father was dragged out. She said the case against him was rigged. The daughter went outside the courthouse and was waiting by the guard gate for her father to be driven out and transported to prison.
Fox News’s Connor Hansen and legal analyst Jeremy Rosenthal join LiveNOW’s Andy Mac to discuss.
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