Had Routh waited for Trump, 78, to use the cart path, the would-be assassin would have been even closer to his target — fewer than 50 feet away.

Ryan Wesley Routh put his enmity toward Donald Trump – the man he once supported but then dismissed as an “idiot,” a “buffoon” and a “fool” – at the center of a rambling and fanciful worldview that also fixated on Ukraine,