«I am going to file an appeal,» the defense attorney declared to the media after the ruling. The conviction comes after a jury last September found Routh guilty on five counts in his attempt to assassinate Trump, which also includes possessing a firearm to commit a violent crime, assaulting a federal agent, being a felon with a weapon, and having a weapon with a serial number erased. During the sentencing, U.S. District Judge Aileen M. Cannon, for the Southern District of Florida in Fort Pierce, told the defendant on Wednesday that he was «evil,» according to Martin County Sheriff John Budensiek, who was present in the session. «I think Judge Cannon said it best, she said: ‘the evil is in you, Mr. Routh. And I think that encapsulates everything that happened,’ the officer narrated to the press. Routh, a construction worker from North Carolina, was detained on September 15, 2024, two months before the presidential elections, on a Trump-owned golf course in Florida where a Secret Service agent found him with a semi-automatic rifle behind some bushes. This was the second assassination attempt on Trump when he was a candidate, as in July 2024 he survived shots fired at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, where authorities killed the attacker. Routh's trial drew renewed attention because he defended himself, claimed he did not commit a crime because he had no intention of killing anyone, and made references to figures like Hitler. His attorney, assigned to defend him at the sentencing, explained that the federal penalty will mean the man will not be able to get out of prison. The defender recounted that the sister attended Wednesday's session and «took it very well.» He also referred to Routh as an «exceptional person» for fighting as a volunteer in Ukraine during Russia's invasion, as well as trying to defend Taiwan from China and recruiting NATO-trained Afghan soldiers. The post «Life sentence for the guilty of the second attempt to assassinate Trump in 2024» was first published in La Verdad Panamá. An American judge sentenced this Wednesday to life in prison Ryan Routh for trying to kill Donald Trump in 2024 on a golf course in Florida, the second assassination attempt on the Republican while he was a presidential candidate in the United States. Routh's lawyer, Martin Roth, warned that he will appeal the sentence, which also includes 84 additional months in prison in addition to life in prison, because he disagrees with the terrorism aggravating factor and because the defendant is already 60 years old. «I think the judge could have, mistakenly, applied an aggravating factor for the federal crime of terrorism, and that will probably be the main issue in the appeal. You were the one who was trying to kill the president of the United States, former president and then president of the United States, the evil is in you’.