Ryan Routh offers himself for prisoner swap with US adversaries in letter shared by judge

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Ryan Routh, the second alleged would-be assassin of President Donald Trump, told the Florida judge presiding over his case on Friday that he wants to offer himself to Russia, China, Iran, or North Korea as part of a prisoner exchange with one of the foreign adversaries.

Routh’s offer was shared in a letter he addressed to United States District Judge Aileen Cannon, a Trump appointee.

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