Would-Be Trump Assassin Asks To Be Imprisoned In State With ‘Assisted Suicide’
Attempted Trump Assassin Ryan Routh is asking to be imprisoned in a state that permits assisted suicide. Routh, who attempted to stab himself with a pen as his guilty verdict was read in the courtroom in September…
Attempted Trump Assassin Ryan Routh is asking to be imprisoned in a state that permits assisted suicide.
Routh, who attempted to stab himself with a pen as his guilty verdict was read in the courtroom in September, requested to “kindly be placed in a state that has assisted suicide since I am a constant failure.”
“I have yet been unable to obtain a list, but I hope someone can provide it,” he wrote in a motion.
Routh was convicted on five counts in September, including attempted assassination of a major presidential candidate, assaulting a federal officer and several gun charges, after representing himself during a 12-day trial in Florida. A Secret Service agent discovered Routh hiding in the bushes with a rifle at Trump’s Florida golf course on Sept. 15, 2024.
Routh wrote in his motion that he is still holding out hope someone might assist him in being traded in a prisoner swap, suggesting trades for “any modest, humble female protestor that stood for womens rights” in Iran, a Ukrainian prisoner of war in Russia or for journalist Jimmy Li in China.
Routh suggested offering himself in exchange for the Nobel Peace Prize laureate imprisoned in Iran “would make Trump look good in the eyes of the Nobel Prize committee, while disposing of his worst enemy.”