The man suspected of trying to assassinate President Donald Trump in September has requested the eyewitness testimony placing him at the scene of the crime be suppressed.
Ryan Wesley Routh has been accused by prosecutors of trying to assassinate Trump at his Mar-a-Lago estate while the president was golfing on September 14, 2024. Routh had been identified by an eyewitness known as “T.C.M.” in court documents. Lawyers for Routh filed a 13-page court filing on Monday, saying T.C.M.’s testimony should be ruled inadmissible since the witness “identified Mr. Routh as the perpetrator through impermissibly suggestive means.”
The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the South District of Florida has argued that Routh aimed a rifle through bushes at then candidate Trump while he was golfing at the Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach. Just prior to the president coming into a line of sight, Routh was spotted by a Secret Service agent, and Routh then attempted to flee, according to prosecutors. Routh, then 58, was apprehended by Marin County deputy sheriffs some 40 miles north of Palm Beach close to an hour later.
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