A man found lurking with a gun near Donald Trump ’s Florida golf course last year has been found guilty of attempted assassination of a major presidential candidate, US Attorney General Pam Bondi said on social media.

A jury found that Ryan Routh , 59, intended to kill Trump, then a former US president and Republican presidential candidate, when he pointed a rifle through a fence while Trump was golfing at the Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach.

He was also found guilty on the four other charges he faced, including impeding a federal agent and weapons offences. He faces a maximum sentence of life in prison.

Routh appeared to try to stab himself with a pen several times after the verdict was revealed in court and had to be restrained by US marshals, according to US medi

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