Man accused of trying to kill Trump at his West Palm golf club to go on trial

MIAMI— A North Carolina man fired his court-appointed lawyer and now plans to defend himself against high-stakes charges that he attempted to kill Donald Trump at his West Palm Beach golf club.

Ryan Wesley Routh, 59, whose South Florida federal trial starts Monday, has already shown himself to be a bit out there.

In 2023, Routh described his prior support of Trump as a “terrible mistake” in his self-published book — “Ukraine’s Unwinnable War” — describing the former president as an “idiot” while appealing to Iran to assassinate Trump for abandoning the U.S.-Iranian nuclear deal.

“You are free to assassinate Trump as well as me for that error in judgment and the dismantling of the deal,” Routh wrote.

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