DOJ drops Trump assassin bombshell after defense lawyers frantically tried blocking shock text messages | 2 May 2025 | Trump assassination suspect Ryan Routh spoke with a human trafficker about smuggling a family of Afghans into the U.S. last year, according to bombshell court documents his lawyers tried to have blocked. The Justice Department released a trove of text messages showing that Routh, 58, had allegedly communicated with a Mexican people smuggler known only as "Ramiro." The DOJ included the text messages in a Monday filing in direct response to a motion by Routh's lawyers to block evidence of his alleged human smuggling. The Justice Department said that it was evidence that the would-be assassin had been trying to plan to flee the country if he would have succeeded in killing Trump.