A Florida jury found Ryan Routh guilty of attempting to assassinate President Trump last year on one of his golf courses. The jury issued its verdict after about two-and-a-half hours of deliberations, finding Routh guilty on all counts. He was also found guilty of assaulting a Secret Service agent and three federal gun charges. BREAKING: Ryan Routh, the man accused of trying to assassinate President Donald Trump during his 2024 campaign, found GUILTY on all counts at trial. pic.twitter.com/Ruxg4WSIdd — Fox News (@FoxNews) September 23, 2025 NBC News has more: Jury deliberations got underway Tuesday after Ryan Wesley Routh capped his two-week trial, during which he served as his own attorney, by delivering a brief and disjointed closing argument during which he tried to argue that there was no crime because he never fired a shot at Trump. But just 12 minutes in his monologue, U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon interrupted Routh and scolded him for ignoring her order to “stay within the bounds of the case” after he started complaining that he wasn’t allowed to put more witnesses on the stand. With the jury out of earshot, Routh then asked Cannon whether the public defenders who initially represented him, Kristy Militello and Renee Michelle Sihvola, could wrap-up his closing argument if the judge interrupted him again. Cannon said no and when the jury returned Routh argued that “to merely have a weapon in the presence of another does not mean intent.” But after Routh brought up the Jan. 6 riot on Capitol Hill and began talking about Ukraine, founding father Patrick Henry, and the “common man,” Cannon put a halt to his argument. In total, Routh spoke for about 42 minutes. Routh now faces life in prison. Ryan Routh convicted of trying to assassinate President Trump, faces life in prison https://t.co/6aOzZXGvcc pic.twitter.com/QK8MuUiNH0 — New York Post (@nypost) September 23, 2025 Vigilant Fox shared a full breakdown of the charges: Count 1: Attempted assassination of a major presidential candidate — GUILTY Count 2: Possession of a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence — GUILTY Count 3: Assaulting a federal officer — GUILTY Count 4: Felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition — GUILTY Count 5: Possession of a firearm with an obliterated serial number — GUILTY BREAKING: Would-be Trump assassin Ryan Routh has been found GUILTY on all 5 charges. He will be going away for a very long time. Here’s the full breakdown from the courtroom: Count 1: Attempted assassination of a major presidential candidate — GUILTY Count 2: Possession of a… pic.twitter.com/sVWyPlxy9R — Vigilant Fox (@VigilantFox) September 23, 2025 The Independent provided further info: He was armed with a semiautomatic rifle while then-candidate Trump was playing golf. He was arrested September 15, 2024 after Secret Service spotted him hiding in shrubbery with an SKS-style rifle. The aborted attack arrived just two months after Trump was nearly fatally shot during a campaign rally last July. At multiple points during the trial, Routh, 59, was reprimanded by District Judge Aileen Cannon for disrupting the proceedings, asking irrelevant questions, or making statements that were beyond the scope of the case.