A Secret Service agent spots a rifle in a concealed position at the golf course perimeter and fires; Routh flees and is arrested, later convicted and sentenced to life.
Second Trump assassination attempt at Florida golf course
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U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Public Affairs. Ryan Wesley Routh Sentenced to Life in Prison for Attempted Assassination of President Donald J. Trump and Assault of a Federal Law Enforcement Officer. (2026). Primary source for the counts of conviction and the sentence. Supersedes contemporaneous September 2024 reporting about the charges.
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Kaye, R. & Lybrand, H. (2026). Ryan Routh sentenced to life in prison for attempted assassination of Trump in 2024 at Florida golf course. CNN. Published 4 February 2026. Contemporaneous account of the sentencing hearing. Secondary confirmation of the Justice Department release above.
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Allen, G. (2026). Ryan Routh sentenced to life in Trump assassination attempt. NPR. Published 4 February 2026. Second contemporaneous account of the sentencing. Retrieval note: npr.org returns an HTTP/2 stream error to automated clients and resolves normally over HTTP/1.1 — the URL is live, and a failed fetch against it is not evidence of link rot.
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September 15, 2024
Second Trump assassination attempt at Florida golf course
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