The man accused of laying in wait with a gun near former President Donald Trump’s Florida golf course in an apparent bid to shoot the former president wrote a letter months earlier describing an “assassination attempt” and offering a bounty on Trump’s life, U.S. prosecutors say. Ryan Routh is due to appear at a hearing on Monday at which prosecutors will ask a judge to keep him in jail until his trial. In a court filing released before the hearing, prosecutors said that several months prior to the incident, Routh dropped off a handwritten letter addressed “to the world” that offered a bounty on Trump. Routh has been charged with two gun crimes and has yet to enter a plea.
Trump said in an interview released on Sunday that he will not make a fourth consecutive run for the presidency if he loses the Nov. 5 election, saying “that will be it.” Asked if he saw himself running again in four years if he is unsuccessful in his third bid for the White House, the former president told Sharyl Attkisson’s “Full Measure” program: “No I don’t. I think that will be—that will be it. I don’t see that at all. Hopefully, we’re going to be successful.”
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel faces “complicated days” as the Israel Defense Forces shift their focus to the country’s northern border, across which the Hezbollah terrorist group has been firing rockets into Israel in support of its ally, Hamas. Netanyahu appealed for unity as Israel increased airstrikes in Southern Lebanon, saying the operations were aimed at changing “the security balance, the balance of power in the north” after talking with commanders at military headquarters in Tel Aviv.
Topics in this episode include:
- Suspected Would-Be Trump Assassin Ryan Routh in Court
- Feds: Routh Wrote Note Indicating Intention to Kill Trump
- UN Chief Talks Middle East, Ukraine With EU Officials
- Lebanon Sees Deadliest Day in Nearly One Year of Fighting
- Netanyahu: Israel Is Changing Security Balance
- Biden ‘Pushing Hard’ to Prevent Middle East Escalation
- Trump Says He Met With Qatari Leaders in Florida
- Harris Raises $27 Million in New York City
- Trump Says He Won’t Run in 2028 if He Loses Race
- Trump, Harris Monday Campaign Schedules
- Speaker Johnson Unveils New Plan to Avert Shutdown
- Speaker Johnson Unveils Short-Term Spending Bill
- North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson Aides Resign
- Arizona: Court Gives Voters With Citizenship Glitch Full Ballot
- Interim NYPD Commissioner Says Agents Searched His Homes
- Victims in Alabama Shooting Identified
- Alabama Police Say Shooting Saturday Killed 4, Wounded 17
- Hurricane John Forms Off Southern Mexico
- Open Water Swimmers in Chicago Raise Money for ALS
- Bull on the Loose After Massachusetts Rodeo Escape
- Zelenskyy Seeks ‘a Shared Victory’ for Ukraine in US Visit
- Think Tank Chief: Russia–China Ties a Growing Concern
- Biden Holds 4th Quad Summit in Delaware
- Commerce Department Proposes Ban on Chinese Vehicle Tech
- EU Challenges China’s Dairy Product Probe at WTO
- Japan, China Foreign Ministers to Meet in New York
- High-Stakes Legal Case Between Ukraine and Russia
- Parts of Britain Hit by Flash Flooding
- Turkey to Submit Evidence on Turkish-American’s Killing
- NFL Roundup: 49ers, Ravens, Cowboys Off to 1–2 Starts
- Caitlin Clark, Fever Lose Game 1 to Connecticut Sun
- Ohtani Stays Hot–Could He Get to 60–60?
- Astronomers Detect Largest Ever Black Hole Jets
- Plump ‘Pesto’ the Penguin Goes Viral
- 25-Meter-Pole-Climbing Champions Crowned
- French Athlete Combines Motocross With Paragliding
- NTD Vocal Competition Winners Grateful for Chance to Promote Traditional Chinese Culture
