Former Attorney General William Barr criticized the Justice Department for releasing the letter written by Ryan Wesley Routh, the man who attempted to assassinate former President Donald Trump at his golf club last week.

Routh allegedly pointed a rifle through the tree line on Sept. 15 while the former president was playing golf at his course in West Palm Beach, according to a criminal complaint. He has not yet entered a plea.

In a court filing released before the hearing, prosecutors said that several months prior to the incident, Routh dropped off a handwritten letter addressed to “the world” that offered a bounty on Trump.

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