US aims to bring attempted assassination charge against Trump suspect

FILE PHOTO: Ryan W. Routh, a suspect identified by news organizations, as the FBI investigates what they said was an apparent assassination attempt in Florida on Republican presidential nominee and former U.S. President Donald Trump, is seen during a rally demanding China's leader's assistance to organise an extraction process for Ukrainian service members from Azovstal Iron and Steel Works in Mariupol, in Kyiv, Ukraine May 17, 2022. REUTERS/Valentyn Ogirenk/File Photo

WEST PALM BEACH, Florida (Reuters) -The U.S. Justice Department plans to charge the man accused of hiding with a gun at former President Donald Trump's Florida golf course with attempting to assassinate a major political candidate, carrying a life sentence if convicted, a prosecutor said on Monday.

Ryan Routh, 58, was ordered by U.S. Magistrate Judge Ryon McCabe to remain in jail without bond pending trial on the two gun-related charges brought against him after his Sept. 15 arrest. McCabe said prosecutors had documented Routh's effort to "stalk" Trump during a roughly month-long period in south Florida "in an apparent attempt to assassinate him."