Maya Rudolph gets career Emmy No. 6, Angela Basset wins her first at Creative Arts Emmys

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Maya Rudolph won her sixth career Emmy on Saturday night, taking the trophy for best character voice-over for her work on “Big Mouth" at the Creative Arts Emmy Awards, while Angela Bassett won her first for her narration of the National Geographic show “Queens.”

The former and future “Saturday Night Live" star Rudolph is up for three more Emmys. Her voice-over work as the Hormone Monstress on the Netflix animated show “Big Mouth” has earned her four of her Emmys.

“I’m really proud to be a part of this show,” she said. “It humanizes being human.”

She got emotional when as she talked about the privilege that she gets to do what she loves in her life.

“It’s making me cry because I’m very menopausal,” Rudolph said.

She won on the first of the two-night Creative Arts Emmys, which honor behind-the-scenes artistic and technical achievement in television and are a precursor to the main Emmys ceremony, hosted by Dan and Eugene Levy, that will air at 8 p.m. EST Sept. 15 on ABC.

Bassett appeared to collect her trophy for best narrator, a category that is usually star studded but where the winner, like Barack Obama last year, rarely shows.

“Oh my god, wow, my first Emmy,” an emotional Bassett said. “I couldn’t be more thrilled and more grateful."

Bassett was attracted to the wildlife documentary project because of the all female-led production team, a rarity in the medium, she said backstage.

“It just touched my heart,” she said. “So I said yes.”

Bassett is a two-time Oscar nominee who won an honorary Academy Award earlier this year.

Other winners included the recently retired Pat Sajak, who won best game show host for his final season on “Wheel of Fortune." It was his fourth time winning the award, and first time since 1998.

“Saturday Night Live” thrived in the craft categories with six wins, including victories for its makeup and production design.

Rudolph won two Emmys when she was a cast member on the show, and is nominated for two more for her work as host of the sketch institution last season. Those will be awarded Sunday.

She will be returning this fall to play Vice President Kamala Harris on the 50th season of “SNL” in the weeks leading up to the election.

“I feel like I am connected somehow to an incredible time in this country and an excitement that I haven't felt in a long time,” she said backstage on Saturday.

She is also nominated at the main Emmys ceremony for best actress in a comedy for her Apple TV+ series “Loot.” She is a longshot for that award, where the favorites are Jean Smart for “Hacks” and Ayo Edebiri for “The Bear,” which leads all shows in the comedy category with 23 nominations.

The Ron Howard-directed documentary “Jim Henson Idea Man” won four times and “Welcome to Wrexham" won three including best unstructured reality show. “Shark Tank” won best structured reality show. In an awards show crossover, the telecast of the Oscars won four Emmys including best live variety special.

Dick Van Dyke, who turns 99 next month, may have stolen the show when “Dick Van Dyke 98 Years Of Magic” won best pre-recorded variety special.

Van Dyke did a little dance and announced “that hurt” afterward. As the winners were being played off stage, he said, "I’d like to take this opportunity to invite you to my memorial. I don’t have a date yet but I’m not feeling very well."

Van Dyke became the oldest person to get a daytime Emmy when he won in June for appearing on “Days of Our Lives.”

The season's top overall nominee, “Shogun,” got a win of sorts Saturday when the team that puts together the post-show making of featurette took home an Emmy. The FX series itself is up for 25 Emmys. Seventeen of those will be handed out on Sunday, which focuses on scripted television.

Plenty of big names are also up for Creative Arts Emmys on Sunday, including Oscar winners Jamie Lee Curtis and Da’Vine Joy Randolph and Oscar nominee Ryan Gosling.

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Dick Van Dyke poses with his award for outstanding variety special (Pre-Recorded) for “Dick Van Dyke 98 Years Of Magic” on night one of the Creative Arts Emmy Awards on Saturday, Sept. 7, 2024, in Los Angeles. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)

Dick Van Dyke poses with his award for outstanding variety special (Pre-Recorded) for “Dick Van Dyke 98 Years Of Magic” on night one of the Creative Arts Emmy Awards on Saturday, Sept. 7, 2024, in Los Angeles. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)

Dick Van Dyke poses with his award for outstanding variety special (Pre-Recorded) for “Dick Van Dyke 98 Years Of Magic” on night one of the Creative Arts Emmy Awards on Saturday, Sept. 7, 2024, in Los Angeles. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)

Arlene Van Dyke, left, and Dick Van Dyke attend night one of the Creative Arts Emmy Awards on Saturday, Sept. 7, 2024, in Los Angeles. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)

Garcelle Beauvais attends night one of the Creative Arts Emmy Awards on Saturday, Sept. 7, 2024, in Los Angeles. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)

Garcelle Beauvais attends night one of the Creative Arts Emmy Awards on Saturday, Sept. 7, 2024, in Los Angeles. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)

Maya Rudolph poses with her Emmy for outstanding character voice-over performance for “Big Mouth" on night one of the Creative Arts Emmy Awards on Saturday, Sept. 7, 2024, in Los Angeles. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)

Angela Bassett poses with her award for outstanding narrator for "Queens" on night one of the Creative Arts Emmy Awards on Saturday, Sept. 7, 2024, in Los Angeles. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)

Maya Rudolph kisses her trophy for outstanding character voice-over performance on “Big Mouth" on night one of the Creative Arts Emmy Awards on Saturday, Sept. 7, 2024, in Los Angeles. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)

FILE - An Emmy statue appears one stage at the 49th annual Daytime Emmy Awards in Pasadena, Calif., on June 24, 2022. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello, File)

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Former President Donald Trump wasn’t harmed by Sunday’s apparent assassination attempt as he golfed near his Florida club. The second attack on his life is likely to further unsettle an election cycle already marked by upheaval.

The man suspected in the incident, Ryan Wesley Routh, camped outside the golf courses in West Palm Beach with food and a rifle for nearly 12 hours, according to court documents filed Monday. He is accused of lying in wait for the former president before a Secret Service agent opened fire, thwarting the potential attack.

Here are five things to know about what happened and where the investigation stands:

Routh, 58, faces charges of possessing a firearm despite a prior felony conviction for possessing a firearm with an obliterated serial number. He is not alleged to have fired any shots, though additional and possibly more serious charges are possible.

The suspect lived in North Carolina for most of his life before moving in 2018 to Kaaawa, Hawaii. He and his son operated a company building sheds, according to an archived version of the webpage for the business.

Routh appeared briefly in federal court in West Palm Beach on Monday. He had previously posted frequently posted on social media about the war in Ukraine and had a website where he sought to raise money and recruit volunteers to go to Kyiv to join the fight against the Russian invasion.

“Fight and die to stop aggression,” he posted on X in February 2023 about Ukraine. “Everyone should be outraged and helping.” In a video circulating online Routh said, “This is about good versus evil.”

He also wrote separately on X, “I am going to fight and die for Ukraine” and even traveled there.

Video shot by the AP showed Routh at a small demonstration in Kyiv’s Independence Square in April 2022, two months after Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered an invasion of the country. A placard he was holding said: “We cannot tolerate corruption and evil for another 50+ years. End Russia for our kids.” Routh wore a blue vest with the U.S., flag on the back.

That same day, Routh also visited a makeshift memorial to “Foreigners killed by Putin.”

But Routh never served in the Ukrainian army or worked with its military, said Oleksandr Shahuri of the Foreigners Coordination Department of the Ukrainian Ground Forces Command.

Routh's politics, meanwhile, don't appear consistently aligned to one party or the other.

In June 2020, he offered a post on X directed at then-President Trump to say he would win reelection if he issued an executive order for the Justice Department to prosecute police misconduct. That year, he also posted in support of the Democratic presidential campaign of then-U.S. Rep. Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii, who has since left the party and endorsed Trump.

However, in recent years, his posts suggest he soured on Trump, and he expressed support for President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris.

In July, following the assassination attempt on Trump in Pennsylvania, Routh urged Biden and Harris to visit those wounded in the shooting at the hospital and to attend the funeral of a former fire chief killed at the rally.

Voter records show he registered as an unaffiliated voter in North Carolina in 2012, most recently voting in person during the state’s Democratic Party primary in March 2024. Federal campaign finance records show Routh made 19 small political donations totaling $140 since 2019 using his Hawaii address to ActBlue, a political action committee that supports Democratic candidates.

Records show that while living in Greensboro, North Carolina, Routh had multiple run-ins with law enforcement. He was convicted in 2002 of possessing a weapon of mass destruction, according to online North Carolina Department of Adult Correction records.

The records do not provide details about the case. But a News & Record story from 2002 says a man with the same name was arrested after a three-hour standoff with police. The story says he was pulled over during a traffic stop, put his hand on a gun and barricaded himself inside a roofing business. He owned the roofing company, according to state incorporation filings.

Roth was arrested Sunday afternoon, after authorities spotted a firearm poking out of shrubbery on the West Palm Beach golf course around 400 to 500 yards from where Trump was playing. A Secret Service agent assigned to Trump’s security detail saw the suspect and opened fire.

Routh sped away before being captured in a neighboring county. Body camera footage of Routh’s arrest showed him walking backward with his hands over his head on the side of a road before being handcuffed and led away.

The suspect is believed to have been positioned at the tree line of the golf course from about 1:59 a.m. to 1:31 p.m. Sunday, according to an FBI affidavit that cites cellphone data. A digital camera, a loaded SKS-style rifle with a scope and a plastic bag containing food were recovered from the area.

Trump’s protective detail has been higher than some of his peers because of his high visibility and his campaign to seek the White House again. His security was bolstered days before the July 13 assassination attempt in Pennsylvania because of a threat on Trump’s life from Iran, U.S. officials said.

Trump initially posted: “I AM SAFE AND WELL!” and subsequently praised the Secret Service for protecting him.

But the former president pivoted Monday to the politics surrounding the incident claiming — without evidence — that President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris comments that he is a threat to democracy had inspired the latest attempt on his life.

“Their rhetoric is causing me to be shot at," Trump told Fox News Digital. In a subsequent post on his social media site Monday, Trump wrote that the left “has taken politics in our Country to a whole new level of Hatred, Abuse, and Distrust.” He said “it will only get worse,” then veered into comments about immigration, even though there is no evidence immigrants were involved in the incident.

The former president made those comments despite his own long history of inflammatory campaign rhetoric and advocacy for jailing or prosecuting his political enemies.

Harris, Trump's Democratic opponent in the presidential election, posted on X that she was "glad he is safe. Violence has no place in America.”

Biden also avoided politics in his reaction. He said Monday “thank God the president is OK” while also saying that the Secret Service “needs more help” and urging Congress to provide additional resources to help the agency.

“America has suffered too many times the tragedy of an assassin’s bullet,” Biden said at the start of an address to the National HBCU Week Conference in Philadelphia. “It solves nothing. It just tears the country apart. We must do everything we can to prevent it and never give it any oxygen.”

In his speech, the president added that acting Secret Service director Ronald Rowe was in Florida “assessing what happened and determining whether any further adjustments need to be made to ensure” Trump’s safety.

Trump hasn't announced any changes to his schedule and is set to speak live on X on Monday night from his Mar-a-Lago resort to launch his sons’ crypto platform. Harris met with the International Brotherhood of Teamsters at the 1.3 million-member group’s headquarters in Washington.

Still, a presidential race already rocked by Biden giving up his reelection bid and the first attack on Trump now is being further shaped by a second one. The leaders of a congressional bipartisan task force investigating Trump's Pennsylvania shooting said they have requested a briefing by the Secret Service.

“We are thankful that the former President was not harmed, but remain deeply concerned about political violence and condemn it in all of its forms,” Rep. Mike Kelly, R-Pa., and Rep. Jason Crow, D-Colo., said in a statement.

Weissert reported from Washington.

Ryan Wesley Routh holds up a banner during a rally in central Kyiv, Ukraine on Saturday April 30, 2022. (AP Photo/Alex Babenko)

Photos that show an AK-47 rifle, a backpack and a Go-Pro camera on a fence outside Trump International Golf Club taken after an apparent assassination attempt of Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump, are displayed during a news conference at the Palm Beach County Main Library, Sunday. Sept. 15, 2024, in West Palm Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Stephany Matat)

This photo provided by the Martin County Sheriff's Office shows Sheriff's vehicles surrounding an SUV on the northbound I-95 in Martin County on Sunday, Sept. 15, 2024. (Martin County Sheriff's Office via AP)