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Trump given handcuffs used on alleged would-be assassin: Sheriff

  • The arresting deputy presented Trump with the cuffs
  • All the deputies involved and the sheriff signed them
  • Suspect due in court for a hearing on Monday

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(NewsNation) — “We were all very moved by it,” is how William Snyder, the sheriff of Martin County, Florida, describes the scene at Mar-a-Lago last week when he and some of his deputies visited former President Donald Trump and gave him the handcuffs used in the arrest of an alleged would-be assassin.

“The deputy who actually put the handcuffs on the suspect handed those to the president, and he actually cradled them in his hand. He looked down at the handcuffs and said ‘nobody’s ever done anything like this for me before,’” Snyder recounted for “NewsNation Prime.” “We were all very moved by it,” he added.

Snyder said that he and the deputies involved in the arrest of suspect Ryan Wesley Routh used a silver Sharpie to sign the black handcuffs.

A week after Routh’s arrest outside the Trump International Golf Club West Palm Beach, Snyder says a question he asked that day remains, in his mind, unanswered.

“I’d want to know if Routh acted alone. If there’s somebody else out there, somebody who did the intel … we need to know who they are.”

Routh is scheduled to appear at a pretrial hearing on Monday, and then be arraigned on Sept. 30.

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