To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video Up Next Previous Page Next PageA man who attempted to assassinate President Donald Trump tried to stab himself in the neck with a pen as he heard his guilty verdict. Ryan Wesley Routh, 59, grabbed the writing instrument as he was found guilty on all five counts in a Florida federal courthouse this afternoon, NBC News reported. Courtroom sketch shows Ryan Routh trying to stab himself in the neck with a pen, after being found guilty of attempting to assassinate Donald Trump at a Florida golf course last year (Picture: AP)Ryan Wesley Routh was arrested in Martin County, Florida, after an assassination attempt on then-presidential candidate Donald Trump in September 2024 (Picture: Getty Images)Routh returned to the room shortly afterward, in handcuffs. A Secret Service agent spotted Routh with a firearm at the fence line near the fifth hole and shot at him. Trump rejoiced at the verdict, calling Routh ‘an evil man with an evil intention, and they caught him’.