Home News Ryan Routh faces life in prison after jury convicts on all charges in attempted assassination of Trump Tries to stab himself in neck with pen after guilty verdictA jury has convicted Ryan Wesley Routh of attempting to assassinate President Donald Trump when the commander-in-chief was running for office last year. “Today’s guilty verdict against would-be Trump assassin Ryan Routh illustrates the Department of Justice’s commitment to punishing those who engage in political violence,” said Attorney General Pam Bondi, as quoted in the announcement. “This attempted assassination was not only an attack on our president, but an affront to our very nation itself. A Secret Service agent spotted Routh as he neared Trump and opened fire, with Routh fleeing the golf course. Routh’s attempted assassination of Trump came two months after Thomas Crooks, 20, had attempted to kill Trump at a rally held in Butler, Pennsylvania, wounding the former president and killing an event attendee before he was shot dead by a Secret Service counter-sniper.