Trump shooting suspect left note outlining assassination plan: Live updates

The man accused in the apparent assassination attempt of Donald Trump at a golf course in Florida left behind a note saying that he intended to kill the former president and maintained in his car a handwritten list of dates and venues where Trump was to appear, the Justice Department said Monday.

The new allegations were included in a detention memo filed ahead of a hearing Monday at which the Justice Department was expected argue that 58-year-old Ryan Wesley Routh should remain locked up as the case moves forward. The details are meant to buttress prosecutors’ assertions that Routh had set out to kill Trump before the plot was thwarted by a Secret Service agent who spotted a rifle poking out of shrubbery on the West Palm Beach golf course where Trump was playing.

The note, addressed “Dear World,” was placed in a box that was dropped at the home of an unidentified person who contacted law enforcement officials after last Sunday’s arrest. It appears to have been based on the premise that the assassination attempt would be ultimately unsuccessful.

The box, which also contained ammunition, a metal pipe and other items, was not opened by the person until after Routh was taken into custody. The person who received the box and contacted law enforcement was not identified in the Justice Department’s detention memo.

“This was an assassination attempt on Donald Trump but I failed you. I tried my best and gave it all the gumption I could muster. It is up to you now to finish the job; and I will offer $150,000 to whomever can complete the job,” the note said, according to prosecutors.

An attorney for Routh didn’t immediately respond to an email seeking comment Monday morning.

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Donald Trump’s suspected would-be assassin, Ryan Routh, is due to appear in court today.

Routh is being held behind bars in Florida after Secret Service agents allegedly thwarted a second assassination attempt on the former president at his West Palm Beach golf club on 15 September.

He is charged with federal counts of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, and possession and receipt of a firearm with an obliterated serial number. The charges relate to previous felonies in North Carolina in 2002 and 2010, which mean Routh is banned from owning a firearm.

At a hearing today, prosecutors will argue Routh should stay behind bars until trial. He has not yet entered a plea.

The hearing is scheduled to take place at 11am ET.

Donald Trump’s former debate coach predicted on Sunday that the ex-president would accept CNN’s invitation for a debate in the coming weeks.

Chris Christie appeared as part of the political panel on ABC’s This Week on Sunday where the former New Jersey governor explained that Trump “needs” another go at debating Democratic rival Kamala Harris given her successful performance against him at the September presidential debate in Philadelphia.

Harris has already accepted the October 23 debate proposal, while Trump has said it is “too late” for another match-up.

Both candidates are targeting the battleground state of Pennsylvania with just over six weeks to go until election day.

Trump will appear at a rally in the borough of Indiana tonight, while Harris has no campaign events scheduled for today.

The vice president plans to return to the state on Wednesday.

Trump will finish the week in Michigan where he is appearing at a town hall event.

Democrats are nervous that pollsters could be underestimating the Trump vote given Kamala Harris’s slim lead in key battleground states.

While a new NBC News survey, published Sunday, shows Harris up five percentage points over Trump, Senate Democrats have told The Hill they are concerned and bracing themselves for another surprise similar to the 2016 election, where Trump’s performance was stronger than pollsters predicted and he beat Hillary Clinton.

“Polling has really been seriously damaged since 2016. And that’s one of the truths, is that Trump is going to be tough in Pennsylvania,” Senator John Fetterman said.

Senator Raphael Warnock of Georgia emphasized just how close this election will be.

“We know this election is going to be close. It’s going to be close in the battleground states, including Georgia, which is why I’m doing everything I can to make sure we put Georgia in our column,” he told the outlet.

“We talk about margin of error for a reason,” he added.

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The fallout from Janet Jackson’s comments regarding Kamala Harris’s heritage continues.

In an interview published over the weekend, the singer repeated false claims echoed by Trump that Harris “is not Black.”

Less than 24 hours after Jackson’s comments appeared in The Guardian, a statement to Buzzfeed provided by Mo Elmasri, who reportedly claimed to be her manager, said she apologized for her remarks.

But in the latest developments, it has since emerged that Jackson is actually managed by her brother, Randy, and the “apology” was not authorized by her.

Elmasri told Variety: “I no longer work for her. I was fired by Janet and Randy, after attempts to improve her image in front of public opinion and her fans, and this is something I do not deserve.”

Volodymyr Zelenskyy is in the US this week to shore up support for Ukraine in the war.

He is speaking at the UN General Assembly in New York on Tuesday and Wednesday before traveling to Washington for talks on Thursday with President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris.

On Sunday, the Ukrainian leader toured the Scranton Army Ammunition Plant in Pennsylvania.