Ryan Roth for his trial to try to assassinate Trump

On Monday, the trial of a man accused of planning to assassinate US President Donald Trump began last September in Florida.

The accident – which occurred just weeks after the care of Trump’s ear in another assassination attempt in Pennsylvania – emphasized the issue of political violence in the months before the 2024 elections.

Both incidents prompted the intensive audit of the US Secret Service and their ability to protect prominent presidential candidates such as Trump.

The suspect in the heart of this issue, Ryan Wesley Roth, will represent himself as he could become an unconventional experience. He admitted that he was not guilty.

Mr. Roth, 59, is a citizen of North Carolina, but he lived in Hawaii before the alleged assassination attempt. He has a former criminal history, and he was an audio supporter of Ukraine in its ongoing war against Russia.

Here is what you need to know about the case.

The accident occurred on September 15, 2024, when Trump was a campaign to restore the White House.

According to court documents, he was wandering in his club in West Palm Beach, Florida when an American secret service agent discovered the face of a man in the bushes in the vicinity of the property. The man was later identified as Mr. Ruth.

Federal prosecutors say that Mr. Roth shot the agent, and witnessed by a witness running across the road to the Black Nissan Xterra. Local law was later arrested on the 95th Highway.

Trump was playing the golf game at the time, but he did not come into contact with Mr. Ruth.

The FBI agents found a semi -automatic SKS rifle with a range and a extended magazine in the area where Mr. Ruth was hiding.

They also found documents with a list of events in which Trump appeared, or was expected to appear in the coming months. According to law enforcement, another witness said that Mr. Roth had left a box in his home months before that included a note, he reads partially, “This was an assassination attempt on Donald Trump but I am very sorry that I failed for you.”

The government accused Mr. Roth of trying to assassinate a presidential candidate, possess a firearm in promoting the crime of violence, attacking a federal officer, as a criminal in possession of a firearm and ammunition, and possessing a firearm with a sequence of transformer.

Mr. Roth acknowledged that he was not guilty of charges last year. He was imprisoned in Florida while waiting for the trial.

The trial of Mr. Ruth began on Monday, September 8, in a federal court in Fort Peres, Florida. The procedures began to choose the jury, before moving to the opening data expected on Thursday.

The trial will be held in the same federal court, where Trump faced charges of claiming to keep the documents classified from his first term in the White House. This case ended in the end after Trump’s re -election.

Judge Eileen Cannon, who supervised the Trump case and eventually rejected it, will head the trial of Mr. Roth. Trump appointed the cannon judge in the federal seat in his first term.

Mr. Ruth made the unusual decision He represents himself in trial.

In a message to the court, he said he was “ridiculous from the beginning to look at a strange, random person who knows nothing about who is talking about me.”

He also said that he and his lawyer “a million miles” and that they did not answer his questions.

Judge Cannon Routh will allow himself to represent himself, but he told him: “I am very urged to make this decision.”

She advised that the presence of a lawyer will be “much better” and ordered the legal advisor appointed by the court to stay in preparation.