Routh spoke in court for about 15 minutes on Wednesday, repeating topics that he mentioned during his trial, such as talking about himself as a good person and his alleged work in Ukraine trying to recruit for their army.
However, U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon eventually stopped Routh and made her sentencing, saying 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.
ATTEMPTED TRUMP ASSASSIN TO LEARN SENTENCE, WITH PROSECUTORS SEEKING LIFE
Ryan Routh is seen in May, 2022 holding a banner stating ‘World Help Us’ during a demonstration in in Kyiv, Ukraine. (Artem Gvozdkov/Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images)
Ryan Routh is seen in May 2022 holding a banner stating ‘World Help Us’ during a demonstration in Kyiv, Ukraine. (Artem Gvozdkov/Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images)
Prosecutors pushed for the 59-year-old to get a life sentence, while Routh’s attorney, Martin Roth, asked the judge for 20 years in prison on top of a seven-year, mandatory sentence for one of the gun convictions.
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.
« This would have been an easy kill. And the kill would have happened without [Secret Service] Agent Fercano, » Assistant U.S. Attorney John Shipley later said. « 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 [Trump]. »
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. »
