On Wednesday, Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody declared that the state has secured an arrest warrant for Ryan Routh, who is currently detained in federal prison on suspicion of trying to kill Donald Trump, for attempted felony murder.
It’s part of an ongoing back and forth between Florida Republican leaders and the Biden administration on the state’s investigation of the September assassination attempt, the second attempt on Trump’s life in three months. The trial date for Routh is scheduled for February.
Florida officials claim that despite Routh’s five federal allegations, which include trying to kill a presidential candidate, the federal government has prevented the state from conducting its own investigation or cooperating with the federal one.
Following Moody’s revelation at a morning press conference, DeSantis wrote on X, “The feds have blocked Florida’s investigation of the Trump assassination attempt at every turn, and I appreciate AG Moody and her team for plowing forward despite some resistance.”
The way the Department of Justice handled the second assassination attempt has drawn criticism from Trump. A request for comment from the Justice Department was not answered.
According to Moody’s, the arrest warrant for attempted felony murder had nothing to do with the actual Trump assassination attempt, but rather with a car accident that occurred when police stopped traffic on a highway in an effort to apprehend a fugitive Routh.
According to Moody, the state’s urge to pursue its own charges was prompted by a car accident that wounded a six-year-old girl due to backed-up traffic created by the search. The Moody’s office released an affidavit stating that the crash occurred three or four miles south of where Routh was arrested.
At the news conference, Moody stated that his activities amounted to an attempted felony murder when you combine those horrific injuries with his additional illegal behavior, which we feel reaches the threshold of domestic terrorism.
Republican officials in Florida were instantly alerted to the threat against Trump’s life when he was playing golf at the Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach on September 15.
A month later, Moody sued the FBI for what she described as an illegal attempt to obstruct Florida’s criminal probe, and two days later, DeSantis signed an executive order instructing state law enforcement to look into the attempted assassination.
Much of Moody’s remarks during her press conference on Wednesday, which DeSantis was unable to attend because of bad weather, centered on the new age that Trump’s law enforcement nominees will usher in for the federal government.
She especially brought out Trump’s choice of FBI director Kash Patel and his choice of Pam Bondi, the former U.S. attorney general who served in Florida.
“There will be a new day soon,” Moody added. Pam Bondi and Kash Patel, the nominees, are passionate about this nation and its destiny.
Moody, one of the candidates on a shortlist to take Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s Senate seat, reaffirmed her support for Trump’s nomination of Bondi and Patel.
“I anticipate new leadership at agencies that will appropriately reach out as intended next month,” she added.
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