Trump assassination attempt suspect Ryan Routh sought rocket launcher from Ukraine: docs

Federal prosecutors revealed that Ryan Routh, the accused would-be assassin of President Donald Trump, sought to get military-grade weapons – including a rocket launcher – from a Ukrainian interaction arsenic portion of his alleged assassination plot.

Routh told his subordinate to "send maine a rpg [rocket-propelled grenade] oregon stinger, and I volition spot what we tin do… [Trump] is not bully for Ukraine," according to tribunal documents obtained by Fox News.

The brace discussed Routh's acquisition options, with Routh inquiring if his subordinate could "ship it to me???" earlier explaining his intent for the military-grade weapons: "I request instrumentality truthful that Trump cannot get elected."

Routh went connected to accidental the weapons of warfare get mislaid "all the clip connected the battlefield" and "one missing would not beryllium noticed," according to the tribunal records.

NEW CHARGE AGAINST RYAN ROUTH, SUSPECT IN ATTEMPTED TRUMP ASSASSINATION

On Sept. 15, 2024, Ryan Routh allegedly hid successful the bushes extracurricular Trump International Golf Club successful West Palm Beach with a firearm arsenic Trump was playing. (Getty Images/Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office)

Prosecutors accidental that Routh besides floated the thought of obtaining a rocket oregon rocket launcher, with the fishy sending his subordinate an representation of President Trump's level and writing, "Trump's plane, helium gets connected and disconnected daily."

Routh's defence besides submitted tribunal filings connected Monday, including a 13-page question alleging that instrumentality enforcement utilized "impermissibly suggestive" tactics erstwhile interviewing an eyewitness identified arsenic T.C.M. They assertion the witnesser felt pressured to place Routh due to the fact that of the aggravated ambiance created by the beingness of aggregate instrumentality enforcement agencies.

"All of these circumstances created a heightened unit to marque the identification," the filing said. "It would not beryllium hard for immoderate well-meaning idiosyncratic to place the one, and only, idiosyncratic instrumentality enforcement presented to them successful this manner."

Fox News Digital has reached retired to Routh's ineligible squad and the FBI for comment.

Ryan Routh timeline

Federal authorities allege that the crippled orchestrated by Routh, a autochthonal of North Carolina, "was not impromptu," but pre-meditated. They argued that "he had been readying to assassinate the President for six months, astatine least."

Ryan Routh allegedly camped retired connected the Trump International Golf Course West Palm Beach with an SKS-style rifle, a backpack, and a buying bag. The 2 bags some contained plates susceptible of stopping tiny arms fire, a preliminary ballistics investigating showed. (Department of Justice)

March-April 2024: Reconnaissance trip

Routh scouted West Palm Beach and Trump’s locations months earlier the attack, prosecutors say. After returning home, helium allegedly gave a friend, identified arsenic L.P., a container containing "Dear World" missive outlining the assassination plan, burner phones and ammunition.

February-September 2024: Plans escape

Routh is accused of messaging a interaction named "Ramiro" successful Mexico for smuggling assistance connected WhatsApp. Days earlier the planned attack, Routh told "Ramiro" helium would beryllium successful Mexico City post-Sept. 15, according to authorities.

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Early August 2024: Attempted acquisition of firearms

On Aug. 25, astir the aforesaid clip helium was trying to get his hands connected rocket and rocket launchers from Ukraine, Routh explored different means of sidesplitting Trump, prosecutors allege. Routh allegedly researched and attempted to acquisition a .50 caliber sniper firearm from a weapon trader successful the Fort Pierce, Florida, area.

Prosecutors accidental Routh searched and contacted weapon shops successful Hawaii, wherever helium had antecedently lived with a girlfriend, browsed galore Craigslist listings for firearms successful South Florida, and reached retired to a person successful North Carolina to inquire astir the terms and availability of a .50 caliber sniper rifle.

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Routh purchased a military-grade SKS firearm that helium utilized connected Sept. 15, 2024, successful the assassination attempt, authorities said.

Aug. 14: Returns to Florida

On Aug. 14, 2024, Routh returned to Florida and allegedly began aggravated surveillance connected Trump's question routes.

Using a burner phone, Routh researched, among different things, Trump’s run movements, patterns of life, the play course, Trump’s airplane, firearms and ammunition, flight routes, section hospitals, constabulary forensic techniques, and items helium would request for the attempt, prosecutors said. 

General presumption of the fenced country adjacent the sixth spread of Trump International Golf Club successful West Palm Beach, Florida, Sept. 18, 2024, wherever Ryan Routh reportedly waited for erstwhile President Donald Trump. (Peter Burke/Fox News Digital)

FBI investigators stitchery grounds from the perimeter of Trump International Golf Club successful West Palm Beach, Florida connected Sept. 16, 2024. (Mega for Fox News Digital)

Sept. 15: Assassination effort connected Trump

On Sept. 15, 2024, Routh carried retired what national prosecutors picture arsenic the last signifier of an attempted assassination crippled against Trump.

In the pre-dawn hours, prosecutors accidental Routh acceptable up a sniper hideout adjacent Trump International Golf Club successful West Palm Beach, Florida. Armed with a military-grade SKS firearm that helium had obtained illegally, Routh is accused of positioning himself successful anticipation of Trump’s accomplishment to play golf.

Before Trump came into range, Routh was spotted by Secret Service agents. When they confronted him, the agents opened fire, and Routh fled the scene, abandoning his rifle, officials said. 

During his attempted escape, helium carried a written flight plan, aggregate burner phones, fake IDs and stolen licence plates, according to authorities. He was aboriginal arrested successful Martin County the aforesaid day.

Ryan Wesley Routh takes portion successful a rally successful cardinal Kyiv, Ukraine, April 30, 2022. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

Ryan Routh's charges

Routh is charged with attempting to assassinate Trump connected Sept. 15, 2024, astatine Trump International Golf Club successful West Palm Beach.

TRUMP ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT SUSPECT ROUTH'S LEGAL TEAM CONSIDERS INSANITY DEFENSE

Routh pleaded not blameworthy to the attempted assassination of a statesmanlike candidate, possessing a firearm successful furtherance of a transgression of violence, assaulting a national officer, felon successful possession of a firearm and ammunition, and possession of a firearm with an obliterated serial number.

In December, helium was charged with different felony attempted execution charge, with prosecutors arguing helium was liable for an mishap that astir killed a young miss erstwhile constabulary unopen down postulation aft helium fled.

Trump assassination fishy Ryan Routh was arrested for alleged attempted assassination of a large statesmanlike campaigner successful Palm Beach County, Florida, connected Sept. 15, 2024. (Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office)

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Routh's proceedings is scheduled to statesman Sept. 8, 2025.