Accused would-be Trump assassin tried to buy Ukraine rocket-launcher, filing says

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

48% : Monday's filing, in federal court in the southern district of Florida, where his case is being overseen by Trump appointed judge Aileen Cannon, lays out in detail for the first time the "significant steps" Routh is said to have taken in support of his plot to murder Trump.
37% : "I need equipment so that Trump cannot get elected," Routh wrote to an online contact he believed was a Ukrainian with direct access to military weapons.
24% : Prosecutors say Ryan Routh made 'reconnaissance' trips before alleged incident in West Palm Beach in September A man charged with attempting to assassinate Donald Trump on a Florida golf course last summer tried to buy a rocket-launcher as well as an anti-aircraft missile from a person he thought was a Ukrainian arms dealer, court papers filed on Monday assert.
22% : [Trump] is not good for Ukraine.
20% : The September incident came almost exactly two months after another gunman opened fire on Trump at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, before he went on to defeat Democratic rival Kamala Harris in the 5 November 2024 election.

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