Coincidentally, Merchant's arraignment came the same day a different man -- 58-year-old Ryan Wesley Routh -- appeared in a Florida court to answer firearm charges connected to an unrelated apparent alleged attempt on Trump's life.

Markenzy Lapointe is the U.S. Attorney in Southern Florida, where suspect Ryan Routh is being prosecuted in an assassination attempt of Donald Trump.

Law enforcement had followed up on a tip about Ryan Routh being a felon illegally in possession of a firearm, though nothing came of it.

Donald Trump was the target of what the FBI said “appears to be an attempted assassination” at his golf club in West Palm Beach, Florida, on Sunday, just nine weeks after the

The Martin County Sheriff's Office explains how it caught Ryan Routh without using AI or license-plate readers.

The man faces charges of possessing a firearm despite a prior felony conviction and possessing a firearm with an obliterated serial number.