Prosecutors request indefinite delay in trial for Trump assassination attempt suspect Ryan Routh

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: ABC News

October 2, 2024, 4:25 PM


Federal prosecutors requested an indefinite delay Wednesday in scheduling the trial for the man charged in an apparent assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump at his Florida golf course last month, citing a massive amount of evidence they've gathered in the 17 days since Ryan Routh's arrest.

In a filing Wednesday afternoon requesting Florida District Judge Aileen Cannon officially designate Routh's case as "complex," prosecutors revealed new details about the scope of evidence they've amassed as they try to further gain insight into Routh's actions leading up to his suspected attempt to kill Trump.

"Over the past two weeks, the United States has interviewed hundreds of witnesses," prosecutors said in the filing. "It has also executed 13 search warrants in Florida, Hawaii, and North Carolina, and seized hundreds of items of evidence, including multiple electronic devices."

Investigators reportedly have more than 100 outstanding subpoena returns in connection with the investigation, the filing states, and they estimate they have "thousands of videos to review" from the large volume of electronic devices seized thus far.

Read more: https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/prosecutors-request-indefinite-delay-trial-trump-assassination-attempt/story?id=114441982

[moniss]

1. Interesting to be sure because

for days and days the "official" line as hammered at us by the media was that this was the "crazed loner" scenario.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

2. Nothing in the OP contradicts a crazed loner scenario. But of course it also does not require that scenario. . . . nt

[moniss]

3. Do you really think

a crazed loner is going to have all these ties to so many places and people that have generated hundreds of subpoenas and a mountain of information to sort through? A loner by definition wouldn't have this large number of people in their life. That's part of my point about calling him a loner. The crazed part we also don't know about. People jumped on that like it was given gospel rather than simply saying "We don't know at this time very much about him." Which obviously was the truth and is now evident by this filing by the prosecutors. But once again the media feels in competition to rush to make immediate, declarative statements of fact when the actual truth is "They don't really know".

How many times have we seen it where media/people start ripping into "social media posts" by a person only to find out they had the wrong person who simply had the same name? These fools in the media feel it is absolute sin to say "I don't know at this time". Everybody has to rush to a meme and then hammer it.

My good heavens have people forgotten what this kind of "rush" by media did to Richard Jewell and how their inability to say "We don't know" rushed them into conduct that turned this man's life upside down?

[Bernardo de La Paz]

6. It seems he was stalking tRump for a month. That alone is enough to generate hundreds of contacts

I think we are probably agreed that it is too soon for us (and media) to figure it out, absent some leaks. My post indicated that by stating that neither "crazed loner" nor conspiracy are eliminated yet.

[BumRushDaShow]

4. I thought it ironic

as this appeared to me to be a dig at the judge who got assigned this case, who became the "master of delay" in a Circuit that is supposedly known to embrace being a "rocket docket"... just to see if there is unethical favoritism going on if this delay request is suddenly denied.

[COL Mustard]

5. Loose Cannon will probably rule

That he has to be executed at once, trial to follow.

We are really in Alice's Wonderland now.

[BumRushDaShow]

7. I expect the decision

is causing program glitches...

[whopis01]

11. That is absolutely not what she is going to be going for.

Any opportunity to bring forth evidence (real or otherwise) that implicates Democrats is far too important for her to squander with a quick judgement. The more this can be in the news and described as "uncovering a bigger plot" with hints of ties to Harris or other prominent Democratic figures, the better in Cannon's eyes.

Punishing the would-be assassin will take a back seat to utilizing him for their gain.

[moniss]

8. Yes indeed there could well be multiple levels to it.nt

[Clouds Passing]

9. Indefinite delay, who does that sound like?

[Chakaconcarne]

10. Of course.... need to feed all of the MAGA conspiracy theories.

[JoseBalow]

12. He has a right to a speedy trial