The trial of the man charged with attempting to assassinate Donald Trump on his golf course last year in West Palm Beach began on Monday, with the defendant being blocked from questioning potential jurors about their views on Gaza and the president’s attempts to acquire Greenland.
Ryan Wesley Routh, 59, is charged with what prosecutors say was a foiled attempt to kill Trump during his presidential campaign in September 2024. He was arrested after a Secret Service agent spotted a man hiding with a rifle in the bushes of a golf course where the president was playing, just one hole away.
Representing himself in court on Monday, Routh also tried to ask jurors what they would do if they were driving and saw a turtle in the road, claiming it would tell him about their character.