Overview

• Routh was found guilty on five federal counts, including attempting to assassinate a major presidential candidate, assaulting a federal officer, and firearms offenses.
• After the verdict, he tried to stab himself in the neck with a pen; U.S. Marshals restrained him and reporters said he was uninjured.
• Routh represented himself at trial as Judge Aileen Cannon limited many of his proposed exhibits and witnesses as irrelevant or late, resulting in a brief and constrained defense.
• Prosecutors said he hid near Trump’s West Palm Beach golf course with a rifle and was spotted by a Secret Service agent before he could fire, a narrative the jury accepted.
• The New York Times briefly posted a prewritten not‑guilty version of the story before replacing it in under a minute and adding a correction.