'The evil … is in you': Cannon shows no mercy to Trump's would-be golf assassin as she sends him off to die in prison for taking aim at president as he hit the links near Mar-a-Lago

U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon refused to mince words arsenic she sent Donald Trump assassination fishy Ryan Routh, who was convicted of trying to sprout the president astatine 1 of his play courses adjacent Mar-a-Lago, disconnected to dice successful situation connected Wednesday — telling him, "The evil … is successful you" and "You are not a bully man" — portion besides cutting disconnected a 20-page code helium tried to give.

"Your crippled to termination was deliberate and evil," blasted Cannon, a Trump appointee, according to The Associated Press. "You are not a peaceful man," she charged.

Routh, meanwhile, thought otherwise.

"I did everything I could and lived a bully life," the 59-year-old told the court, earlier being chopped disconnected by Cannon aft helium tried giving his reported 20-page speech, which the justice relegated to conscionable 5 minutes.

Cannon slapped Routh, who was convicted successful September, with a condemnation of beingness without parole, positive 7 years for a weapon charge, aft helium was recovered blameworthy of attempting to assassinate a large statesmanlike candidate, assaulting a national serviceman and aggregate firearm violations successful transportation with his assassination plot. Routh was accused of targeting Trump astatine a West Palm Beach play course, with prosecutors alleging that helium acceptable up a sniper "hide" successful the bushes.

"Cravenly, successful acold blood, Routh attempted to termination President Trump, putting astatine hazard of decease besides a brave Secret Service cause and perchance anyone successful the enactment of fire," the authorities said successful a Jan. 16 sentencing memo, which noted however Routh has "never apologized" for his actions and requested a beingness sentence.

"Routh remains unrepentant for his crimes … for the lives helium enactment astatine risk," the memo said. "His beingness demonstrates near-total disregard for law."

At his sentencing, Cannon told Routh, "The evil, sir, is successful you. Not successful anybody else," according to The Palm Beach Post.

Routh, who was allowed to correspond himself, claimed successful a sentencing variance request that the assemblage that convicted him was "misled by his inability to efficaciously face witnesses, usage exhibits oregon affirmatively present impeachment grounds designed to beryllium his deficiency of intent to origin wounded to anyone." It took jurors conscionable 2 hours and 20 minutes to find him guilty.

On the time his verdict was read, Routh made headlines for grabbing a pen from a table and trying to unsuccessfully stab himself successful the cervix with it. He had voiced his disdain for Trump successful tribunal ramblings and filings, but had asked for leniency to beryllium shown owed to his property and different factors.

"Defendant denies helium acted with the intent to termination a statesmanlike candidate," Routh said successful his sentencing variance request.  "The suspect is 2 weeks abbreviated of being 60-years-old. A conscionable punishment would supply a condemnation agelong capable to enforce capable but not excessive punishment, and to let suspect to acquisition state again arsenic opposed to dying successful prison."

A word of 20 years, Routh said, would beryllium "sufficient to conscionable the request for punishment." The government, however, felt helium deserved the maximum sentence.

Prosecutors said successful their sentencing memo that Routh wanted to termination Trump successful an effort to "deny the American people" the enactment of voting for him successful the November 2024 statesmanlike election, portion "seeking to change violently this country's future." They insisted that Routh's transgression acts astatine the play people "were not impromptu" and helium had been readying to assassinate the president for months.

"The Constitution affords citizens galore peaceful avenues to reason oregon explicit beardown dissent astir a Presidential campaigner — execution is not 1 of them," national prosecutors wrote successful their sentencing memo. "Routh's crimes undeniably warrant a beingness condemnation — helium took steps implicit the people of months to assassinate a large Presidential candidate, demonstrated the volition to termination anybody successful the way, and has since expressed neither regret nor remorse to his victims. His arguments for a downward variance from beingness imprisonment are wholly meritless."

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Routh's girl came guardant successful September 2025 aft his condemnation and called retired U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon and the justness strategy astir his trial, calling the lawsuit against him "bulls—" and blasting Cannon for being an "obviously biased" Trump appointee.

"She fto Trump disconnected connected his charges past year," Sara Routh told Miami presumption WPLG. "She should person recused herself from the beginning."

Sara Routh pointed to Cannon's dismissal of Trump's classified documents case past twelvemonth arsenic impervious of the ineligible cards being stacked against her father. It's not the archetypal clip Cannon has been accused of being "biased," with similar accusations coming aft the Mar-a-Lago lawsuit dismissal.

"Obviously biased, anybody knows that," Sara Routh lambasted.