In their filing asking for the suspect in the second assassination attempt on Donald Trump to remain behind bars, prosecutors say he was in the area of Trump’s golf course in West Palm Beach and Mar-a-Lago residence across multiple days in the month before he was arrested and had a Google search of how to travel from Florida to Mexico in one of his phones.
The man, Ryan Wesley Routh, also had a handwritten list of dates and venues where Trump has or was expected to appear in the lead-up to the 2024 presidential election, according to the filing.
Prosecutors wrote that Routh had travelled to West Palm Beach from North Carolina on August 14, one month before taking his position on the outskirts of Trump’s golf course with an SKS rifle when Secret Service spotted him.
Cell phone data shows him near Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence and the golf course “multiple days and times” between August 18 and September 15, the day he was arrested, prosecutors say.
