One enduring question has come up several times since the Secret Service stopped a second assassination attempt on Donald Trump at his own golf resort. How did the assassin know Trump would play golf that day? By all accounts, that decision got made shortly before Trump went to the first tee.
The answer came this morning in new court filings from prosecutors. Ryan Wesley Routh didn’t have advance knowledge of Trump’s schedule. He just got lucky after a month of stalking the golf course.
“Lucky,” in this context, is perhaps a term of art:
A 58-year-old man accused of trying to assassinate former President Donald J. Trump acknowledged in a prewritten note that he had planned the attack — and even predicted his failure, offering $150,000 to anyone who could “complete the job,” according to a federal court filing on Monday.
The man, Ryan W. Routh, staked out the grounds of Mr….
