Would-be assas­sin wrote let­ter about try­ing to kill Trump: ‘I tried my best’

The man sus­pect­ed of attempt­ing to kill for­mer Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump while he was golf­ing at Mar-a-Lago wrote a let­ter addressed to the world admit­ting he was attempt­ing an assas­si­na­tion and failed to “fin­ish the job.”
Ryan Wes­ley Routh, 58, alleged­ly dropped a box off at an unnamed witness’s house months before the Sep­tem­ber 15 assas­si­na­tion attempt. The box “con­tained ammu­ni­tion, a met­al pipe, mis­cel­la­neous build­ing mate­ri­als, tools, four phones, and var­i­ous let­ters,” accord­ing to the Jus­tice Depart­ment.
The wit­ness did not open th …