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Ryan Routh found guilty of trying to assassinate Donald Trump - and tries to stab himself after verdict
A 59-year-old man has been found guilty of trying to assassinate Donald Trump on a golf course.
Ryan Routh attempted to stab himself in the neck with a pen shortly after he was convicted on all five charges against him. Marshals quickly surrounded Routh and he did not hurt himself.
They then dragged him out of the courtroom in Fort Pierce, Florida. His daughter Sara Routh screamed: "Dad I love you don't do anything.
I'll get you out. He didn't hurt anybody." She continued screaming in the courtroom as her father was removed, and she said the case against him was rigged.
He was later brought back into court, wearing a white shirt and no tie. There was no blood visible on his neck.
The judge wanted to make sure Routh understood he was found guilty. His son Adam said "we love you Dad" and Routh turned around and winked as he was taken away.
'Carefully crafted plot' A jury of five men and seven women decided Routh intended to kill Mr Trump when he pointed a rifle through a fence as the then US presidential candidate was playing golf in West Palm Beach, Florida, in September last year. Routh fled without firing a shot after a Secret Service agent patrolling the course ahead of Mr Trump saw Routh and the rifle and opened fire, according to witness testimony in the case.
At the start of the trial, prosecutor John Shipley said "this plot was carefully crafted and deadly serious.
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