What happened

A federal jury in Florida Tuesday convicted Ryan Routh of trying to shoot President Donald Trump at his West Palm Beach golf course last September. The jurors deliberated for less than three hours. After they found Routh guilty of attempting to assassinate a major presidential candidate and four other charges, he tried to stab himself in the neck with a flexible prison-safe pen but emerged uninjured.

Who said what

The “rare trial of a would-be presidential assassin was made more unusual” by Routh’s decision to represent himself without a lawyer, The New York Times said. That decision, approved by U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon, “made the trial a lopsided one from the start,” when Cannon cut off Routh’s opening statement “for lack of relevance.” He did not testify, c

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