Prosecutors expected to rest case in trial of man accused of trying to assassinate Trump
FORT PIERCE Fla WSVN The trial for the man accused of trying to assassinate then-presidential candidate Donald Trump last year continues with prosecutors expected to rest their episode Friday For more than a week law enforcement experts and others have described an elaborate plan by suspect Ryan Routh to trip to West Palm Beach find Trump and shoot him Friday the prosecution continues with its th and final witness FBI Supervisory Special Agent Kimberly McGreevy Prosecutors are expected to use McGreevy s testimony to solidify the development and place Ryan Routh at the Golf Club on the day of the attempted assassination in addition to providing receipts of the locations Routh dined at where he purchased supplies text threads about buying the gun and even where he parked his automobile McGreevy noted that Routh was conducting physical and electronic surveillance essentially stalking the president in the days before he hid inside a shrubbery bush outside the Trump s International Golf Curriculum in Sept FBI Special Agent Nicholas Schnelle stated Thursday that the setup inside the bushes reminded him of Afghanistan because of how the gun was taped up high in a tree with two antiballistic plates next to it near the th hole Two law enforcement officers testified about Routh s interest in Trump s personal plane An FBI club unveiled a piece of paper in Ruth s home with the plane s identifying N-number To which Routh who is representing himself posed the following question If a -year-old can look up that tail number is that FBI special information The agent replied that it is readily available A Palm Beach Sheriff s Office Detective also testified about a video of Ruth sitting in the Palm Beach International Airport Atrium about a week before the assassination attempt watching Trump s plane take off Routh cross-examining the detective petitioned Is it illegal to take pictures of airplanes Detective Kenny Smith replied saying No All that s legal Ryan Routh is expected to call his viewers to the stand but it s unclear if it ll veritably happen as they re mostly character bystanders
