Armed suspect on Trump’s golf course wrote about wanting him assassinated, prosecutors allege [Video]

The man accused of hiding out with a gun near Donald Trump’s Florida golf course in an apparent bid to kill the former U.S. president wrote a letter months earlier describing an “assassination attempt” and offering a bounty on Trump’s life, prosecutors said on Monday.

Ryan Routh, 58, has been charged with two gun crimes after he allegedly pointed a rifle through the tree line on Sept. 15 while the Republican presidential candidate was playing golf at his course in West Palm Beach, according to a criminal complaint. He has not yet entered a plea.

Routh is due to appear at a hearing scheduled to begin at 11 a.m. ET on Monday in which prosecutors will ask a judge to keep him in jail until his trial. In a court filing released before the hearing, prosecutors said that several months prior to the incident, Routh dropped off a handwritten letter …