NEW: Would-be Trump murderer Ryan Routh invitations president to ‘punch him in the face’ as ‘many times’ as he needs
“No cameras, no complaints, no [charges]. Just good fun.”
Would-be assassin of President Donald Trump Ryan Routh invited the president to punch him in the face “as many times as you want.” The request has been among a few other strange asks from Routh, including one to trade him to Iran.
In a motion unsealed on Tuesday, Routh made the unusual request to allow Trump to assault him in court. If Trump “wished to pummel the defendant just for good measure, put on the handcuffs and shackles and give it your worst,” Routh wrote. “No cameras, no complaints, no [charges]. Just good fun.”
Routh added, “Don’t be a p*ssy. (Can I say p*ssy or coward-sorry).” He said in the motion that Trump could ask any questions he wanted, and that he wanted to Trump in court so that the president could punch Routh in the face.
Routh later added, “Defendants open invitation speak your mind to the jury to vent any anger and displeasure with the defendant and perhaps if you wish, he will allow you even to punch him in the face, as many times as you want; no charges-we know someone at DOJ. Most fun in decades, don’t miss it.”
Aside from the request to punch Trump in the face Routh also attempted to subpoena Mahmoud Khalil, the Columbia student who has been ordered to be deported by the Trump administration. Routh asked him to “testify to the gross violation to our Freedom of Speech and erosion of democracy to authoritarianism.”
He also made claims in the motion to suggest Trump was planning to make himself a dictator for life in connection to the case with Khalil. “Tell us how the war against migrants is to enact the insurrection act for martial law to end all federal voting; for [a] permanent president,” Routh wrote in the filing.
He added, “With your expertise on Fascism we need your knowledge on the 14th Amendment/Sec. 3 – Disqualification to Hold Office; is prevention prior and remedy after? Also Amendment 2 for a well regulated militia, we wonder what it will take to remove a fascist dictator with National Guard and military already in DC how will America remove the President from the White House in 2029 – is there a chapter in one of your books and how many lives will be lost.”
After Routh was found guilty of attempting to assassinate Trump in September, he immediately tried to stab himself in the neck with a pen. He was tackled to the ground at the time and was dragged out of court. After he was found guilty, he wrote a letter in October seeking to be sent to state where assisted suicide is legal, or to be traded to a enemy nation of the United States, such as Iran.
He said in the letter that Iran could “torture, kill and drag [him] through the streets” in exchange for an Iranian human rights activist. He argued in the motion to US District Judge Aileen Cannon that the move would be similar to Trump “disposing of his worst enemy.” He also offered to be traded for a Palestinian terrorist being held by Israel or a Ukrainian prisoner being held by Russia.
In another bizarre move in attempt to stop his sentencing, he offered to play a round of golf with the president to settle his fate. “A round of golf with the racist pig, he wins he can execute me. I win I get his job (sorry hillbilly Vance),” he wrote in another filing before his verdict date in September.