A judge has released a letter penned by the man who tried to assassinate Donald Trump in Florida, in which he makes the bizarre offer to be traded in a prisoner swap.

"Perhaps you have the power to trade me away," Ryan Routh wrote in a letter to U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon.

Ryan Routh, the accused would-be assassin of President Donald Trump, has asking why the death penalty isn’t on the table and proposed that he be included in a prisoner swap with U.S. adversaries Iran,