This is what happens when things don't go the way a self-absorbed narcissist thought they would. On the reading of his guilty verdicts, after the jury deliberated for about as long as it takes to eat a sandwich, would-be Donald Trump assassin tried to stab himself in the neck with a pen.
Fox News's Danamarie McNicholl had this to say in the above video:
John, I just have a lot of breaking news in terms of the sequence of what happened right after the verdict was read. Now it is quite shocking, right after the verdict was read, it appeared to our producers inside the courtroom (that) Routh tried to stab himself in the neck with a pen, that's what it appeared to look like. Then four marshals dragged him out of the courtroom, took his coat off, then shackled him at the waist and ankles. And then they brought him back into the courtroom.
NBC News has more details:
The trial of Ryan Wesley Routh came to a dramatic end Tuesday when he started stabbing himself in the neck with a pen after a Florida jury found him guilty of attempting to assassinate Donald Trump last year on a golf course.
After just two-and-half hours of deliberations, the panel also found Routh guilty of assaulting the Secret Service agent who rousted him from his hiding place and guilty of three federal gun charges stemming from the Sept. 15, 2024, incident.
Routh, who had pleaded not guilty to all the charges, now faces life in prison when he is sentenced.
This is after his rather odd defense.
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The jury's verdict was, as we noted, arrived at very quickly, within 2 1/2 hours. We do not yet know if that time span included a break for lunch.
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