Florida Files Charges Against Alleged Would-Be Assassin Ryan Routh

Florida is continuing to fight the federal government’s efforts to halt the state’s own independent investigation into what happened in West Palm Beach.
Florida Files Charges Against Alleged Would-Be Assassin Ryan Routh
Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody in a file photograph. Patrick Semansky/AP Photo
T.J. Muscaro
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Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody obtained an arrest warrant for Ryan Routh, the alleged would-be assassin of then-former President Donald Trump, now the present-elect, charging him with the attempted felony murder of a 6-year-old girl.

The federal government has been trying to prevent the state from conducting an independent investigation into the alleged assassination attempt in West Palm Beach until after the federal investigation and prosecution has concluded.