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Trial for would-be Trump assassin Ryan Routh begins with bizarre opening statement | Elizabeth Varga
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4:34Now PlayingRyan Routh, the man accused of waiting to kill Donald Trump at a Florida golf course last year, delivered his own opening statement Thursday with a rambling discourse that referenced Adolf Hitler and the birth of humanity. “I didn’t think I was ever going to hear that ‘homo erectus’ was going to come out in an opening statement,” NewsNation legal contributor Jesse Weber tells “Elizabeth Vargas Reports.”
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