Prosecutors intend to ask grand jury to weigh attempted assassination charge against Ryan Routh

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

41% : Trump was playing golf on the course when a Secret Service agent spotted a gun barrel poking out from the tree line near the sixth green, according to investigators.
40% : In the book, which ABC News has unearthed following Sunday's incident, Routh directed an apology toward Iran, apparently for his previous support for Trump, who withdrew the U.S. in 2018 from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) nuclear deal with Iran.
35% : "Routh, the man suspected by the FBI of planning to kill Trump possessed a list that included dates from August to October of venues where Trump had appeared or was expected to be -- and is suspected to have traveled near the golf course where the incident took place Sept. 15 and Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort multiple times in the month leading up to his arrest, prosecutors said in a detention filing on Monday.
32% : Trump was not in Routh's line of sight, according to the Secret Service.
32% : MORE: Trump suspect told Iran 'you are free to assassinate Trump' in apparent self-published bookAgents further said they had reviewed a book authored by Routh, which has previously been publicly reported on, titled, "Ukraine's Unwinnable War: The Fatal Flaw of Democracy, World Abandonment and the Global Citizen-Taiwan, Afghanistan, North Korea, WWIII and the End of Humanity."
28% : "Routh suggested Iran should feel "free to assassinate Trump" and himself in a self-published book from February 2023.
24% : Dispoto said the government is prepared to "ask a grand jury to consider a charge that the defendant attempted to assassinate Trump," which carries a "maximum sentence punishable by life in prison.
24% : You are free to assassinate Trump as well as me for that error in judgment and the dismantling of the deal.
20% : MORE: Assassination attempt suspect Ryan Wesley Routh didn't have a line of sight on Trump or take a shot: OfficialsThe agent then fired in the direction of the rifle and saw Routh fleeing the area and entering his Nissan vehicle, according to the criminal complaint.

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