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Oran Routh

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Oran Routh
Mugshot of Oran Routh
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Born 1989 (age 35–36)
Nationality USA
Other names
  • Oran Alexander Routh
  • Oream Alexander Routh
  • Oream Routh
Known for Defended his father, Ryan Wesley Routh, after he was arrested for planning to shoot former President Donald Trump.

Oran Routh is an American who first rose to attention, on September 15, 2024, when interviewed by reporters shortly after learning his father, Ryan Wesley Routh, had been arrested for planning to shoot former President Donald Trump.[1] Routh offered spirited defenses of his father to multiple news agencies, including CNN, The Guardian and The Daily Mail.

Routh's mother, Lora Frances Wilson, married his father in 1989. They had two more children, Sara, and Adam, prior to divorcing in 2003.[2]

  • He said he was surprised by the arrest, as trying to shoot a politician seemed out of character, for his father.[3][4]
  • He claimed he didn't believe his father even owned a gun.[3][5]
  • He acknowledge his father hated Donald Trump, adding "as every thinking person does".[3]
  • He described how his father had travelled to Ukraine in 2022, and volunteered to provide humanitarian aid.[1]
  • He praised his father as “a loving and caring father” and an “honest hardworking man”.[1][4]

Charges against Oran Routh

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On September 21, 2024, Federal Bureau of Investigation agents, and other law enforcement officials searched Oran Routh's home.[6][7][8][9] According to Fox News affiliate WGHP they weren't searching for child porn, their search was “in connection with an investigation unrelated“. But the search, nonetheless, turned up hundreds of child porn files. He was charged with "possessing child pornography and receiving child pornography." Fox News reported the charging documents said “These files include video from a known child pornography series created outside of the state of North Carolina.”

Routh's home was searched on September 21, 2024.[8] He was taken into custody on that day after law enforcement officials found cocaine, MDMA and ketamine.

National Public Radio reported law enforcement officials didn't explain what triggered the first search warrant to search Routh's home.[10] However, they noted ABC News and CNN, cited unnamed sources who had told them the search was related to Routh's father. A second phone, a Samsung Galaxy Note 9, was found during the search, and that triggered obtaining a second search warrant to search all of Routh's electronic devices, and this is when the pornography was found.[7] It was a portable memory card, plugged into the second phone, tucked in a laptop bag, that contained the porn. His everyday phone did not contain any porn.

At a hearing on December 2, 2025, Routh faced additional Child Pornography charges.[11] WFMY confirmed that the initial search of his house, on September 21st, was triggered by his verbal support of his father, after his father's capture on suspicion he planned to kill Trump

Pled guilty in October 2024

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Routh pled not guilty on October 2, 2024, shortly after his arrest.[12][13][9][14] He was released under the supervision of his mother.

He pled guilty to possessing child pornography involving a prepubescent minor or a child under the age of 12, and four other charges were dropped.[15]

His sentencing hearing is scheduled for May 14, 2025.[15] After his guilty plea his bail was revoked.

Local news interviewed people who knew Routh.[13] A former landlord described Routh a problem tenant. He said that, when it came time to evict Routh he had called upon his father Ryan Routh, to help control him. The landlord quoted Routh's father as saying Oran had always been argumentatice.

Hearing of February 12, 2025

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Routh is reported to have issued a verbal "outburst" during a February 12, 2025 hearing.[16] He is reported to have asserted that the scrutiny that triggered the search warrants against him was "politically motivated".

Sentencing

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Routh was sentenced on July 7, 2025, for a term of seven years.[17] His judge explained his sentencing had been delayed because Routh's lawyers had appealed to withdraw from the case.

References

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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Ramon Antonio Vargas (2024-09-16). "Son of suspect speaks after apparent Trump assassination attempt in Florida". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 2024-09-16. Retrieved 2024-09-16. However, many on X noted how the political views espoused by the account under Routh’s name were not exclusively pro-Democrat. The account described voting for Trump in 2016 and expressed support for a White House ticket combining the unsuccessful Republican presidential primary contenders Vivek Ramaswamy and Nikki Haley.
  2. ↑ Naman Trivedi (2025-09-24). "Ryan Routh Family: All On Ex Wife Lora And Children Sara, Adam, And Oran Alexander Routh". Times Now News. Retrieved 2025-02-18.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 David Propper (2024-09-16). "Son of alleged would-be Trump assassin Ryan Routh claims father hates ex-president but is 'not a violent person': 'I don't like Trump either'". New York Post. Retrieved 2024-09-16. Oran Routh said he was unaware his father was even in Florida, and assumed he was in Hawaii when the two spoke recently.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Michelle Shen; Paul LeBlanc; Isabelle D’Antonio; Jack Forrest; Maureen Chowdhury; Kathleen Magramo; Lex Harvey (2024-09-15). "Live updates: FBI investigating apparent assassination attempt of Trump in Florida". CNN. Archived from the original on 2024-09-16. Retrieved 2024-09-16. Oran Routh said he hopes everything has “just been blown out of proportion” and it’s not like his father “to do anything crazy, much less violent.” He called his father “a loving and caring father, and honest hardworking man.”
  5. ↑ Shawn Cohen (2024-09-16). "Son of alleged would-be assassin Ryan Wesley Routh says his dad hates Trump like 'all reasonable people' but he's never owned a gun and wouldn't do anything bats*** crazy". Daily Mail Online. Archived from the original on 2024-09-16. Retrieved 2024-09-16. 'I've never known him to own a gun or known him to do anything bats*** like this,' the son added.
  6. ↑ "FBI: Son of suspect in Trump assassination attempt arrested on child sexual abuse images charges". rdnewsnow. Washington DC. 2024-09-24. Retrieved 2024-10-04. Oran Routh was arrested this week after authorities searched his Greensboro, North Carolina, home “in connection with an investigation unrelated to child exploitation,” an FBI official said in court papers.
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Priscilla DeGregory; Reuven Fenton (2024-09-24). "Trump assassination attempt suspect Ryan Routh's son arrested on child porn charges after 'feds find hundreds of sick images'". New York Post. Retrieved 2024-10-04. Oran Routh, 35, is accused in a North Carolina federal court of receiving and possessing child porn — a fact which the feds discovered on Sept. 21 when they were searching his Greensboro home in connection to a separate investigation, according to a criminal complaint.
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 Doha Madani; Tom Winter; Michael Kosnar; Chloe Atkins (2024-09-24). "Son of Trump assassination plot suspect charged with possession of child sex abuse images". NBC News. Oran Alexander Routh was charged in federal court in North Carolina on Monday with one count of receipt of child pornography and one count of possession of child pornography. U.S. District Court records show he was arrested Tuesday, and no attorney for him is listed.
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 Emily Mikkelsen (2024-10-02). "Son of man accused in Trump assassination attempt pleads not guilty to federal child porn charges". FOX8 WGHP. Greensboro, North Carolina. Retrieved 2024-10-04. Oran Routh, 35, was in federal court on Tuesday for a detention hearing after he was arrested near the end of September. The arrest came when authorities searched his home “in connection with an investigation unrelated to child exploitation” and reportedly found the child sex abuse material.
  10. ↑ Rachel Treisman (2024-09-25). "The son of Trump's alleged would-be assassin is charged over child sex abuse images". National Public Radio. Retrieved 2024-10-04. It’s not clear whether the investigation in question is related to Routh’s father, though ABC News and CNN cite unnamed sources as saying so. A spokesperson for the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of North Carolina declined to elaborate beyond court filings.
  11. ↑ Emily Mikkelsen (2024-12-02). "Son of Greensboro man charged in Trump assassination attempt indicted on more federal child pornography charges, court documents show". FOX8 WGHP. Greensboro. Retrieved 2025-02-18. In addition to the counts of possession and receiving child pornography, Routh has been charged with another count of receiving child pornography along with the new charges of transporting child pornography and possessing child pornography involving a minor who had not yet reached 12 years of age, bringing it to five total counts against him.
  12. ↑ "Oran Routh pleads not guilty in federal court Tuesday, court docs say". wfmynews2. Greensboro. 2024-10-02. Retrieved 2025-02-18. Fargotstein said Oran got so out of hand that he remembers having to call Ryan Routh to the rental on Pinecroft Road to remove Oran from the home. "My interactions with him were mainly about how his son was acting and if he could control him and help get him out of the house, and he said, 'yep, I'll get him out of the house for you. We're gonna go rent a place. He's always been like this since he was a kid.'"
  13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 Emily Mikkelsen (2024-10-02). "Son of man accused in Trump assassination attempt pleads not guilty to federal child porn charges". FOX8 WGHP. Greensboro. Retrieved 2025-02-18.
  14. ↑ Alexander Mallin (2024-09-24). "Son of Ryan Routh, accused in Trump assassination attempt, arrested for child pornography". ABC News. Archived from the original on 2025-04-22. Retrieved 2025-02-18. The "unrelated investigation" referred to Routh's father -- who remains in custody after a judge ordered him detained pending trial Monday -- a spokesperson with the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Carolina confirmed to ABC News.
  15. ↑ 15.0 15.1 Jeremy Vernon (2025-02-12). "Oran Routh pleads guilty in child pornography case". wfmynews2. Greensboro. Archived from the original on 2025-03-03. Retrieved 2025-02-18. Routh was originally charged with four other counts — three for receiving child pornography and one for transporting child pornography — but those charges were dropped as part of his plea deal.
  16. ↑ Louis Casiano (2025-02-12). "Son of accused attempted Trump assassin has outburst in court after pleading guilty to serious charges". Fox News. Archived from the original on 2025-02-13. Retrieved 2025-02-18. The son of a man charged with trying to assassinate President Donald Trump on a Florida golf course had an outburst inside a North Carolina court, saying his arrest on a child porn charge was motivated by political persecution.
  17. ↑ Taylor Ford (2025-07-25). "Son of Trump assassination plot suspect, Oran Routh, sentenced to 7 years in federal prison for possessing child pornography". FOX8 WGHP. Greensboro. Retrieved 2025-02-18. His sentencing, originally scheduled earlier this year, was delayed after his defense team filed a motion to withdraw, citing a breakdown in communication and lack of trust. Although the judge granted the motion, he warned that further delays would not be tolerated.
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