The Memo: Shocking attempt on Trump's life pitches America into fresh turmoil |
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A febrile nation was pitched into new turmoil on Saturday. The cause was an apparent assassination attempt against former President Trump. The scene, at a rally in Butler, Pa., echoed around the world in an instant. It will be replayed for days, weeks and years to come. |
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Former President Trump's rally on Saturday abruptly ended after gunshots rang out while he was speaking in Butler, Pa., leaving the suspected shooter and one attendee dead and two others seriously injured, according to the U.S. Secret Service. Less than 10 minutes into his speech as Trump spoke about immigration, gunshots rang out. Trump reached for his right ear and dropped from the lectern. |
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BY BRETT SAMUELS AND ALEX GANGITANO |
President Biden addressed the nation on Saturday shortly after former President Trump, his 2024 opponent, was bloodied in a shooting at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania. Biden told reporters he had tried to get ahold of Trump and hoped to speak with the former president. |
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Former President Trump was bloodied after a bullet pierced his ear at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday in what authorities are investigating as an assassination attempt. The shooting took place shortly after Trump had taken the stage in Butler, a city roughly 30 miles north of Pittsburgh. The suspected shooter and one rally attendee were killed, according to law enforcement. |
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Top Trump aides said the former president will still attend the Republican convention scheduled for next week in Wisconsin after a shooting at his campaign rally on Saturday night. "As was communicated earlier this evening, President Trump is doing well and grateful to law enforcement and first responders for their fast action," Trump campaign senior advisers Chris LaCivita and Susie Wiles said in a statement. |
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President Biden and former President Trump spoke on Saturday night following a shooting at one of Trump's rallies in Pennsylvania in which he was grazed by a bullet. A White House official said that Biden spoke to Trump just before the president left Rehoboth Beach, Del., where he was on Saturday, to make a previously unscheduled return to the White House. |
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The Biden campaign paused its communications and was working to pull down its television ads following the shooting at Donald Trump's rally, an official said Saturday. President Biden spoke on camera following the incident, and he issued a written statement saying he was "grateful" that his political rival was safe. |
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Congressional Republicans are pledging investigations into and at least one hearing about the apparent assassination attempt against former President Trump at a Pennsylvania rally on Saturday, with attention directed mostly at the Secret Service. "THE HOUSE WILL CONDUCT A FULL INVESTIGATION OF THE TRAGIC EVENTS TODAY," Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) wrote in a post on the social media site X. |
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The shooting at former President Trump's rally in Butler, Pa., is being investigated as an attempted assassination of the ex-president. In a press conference late on Saturday night, the Federal Bureau of Investigation said it was calling the shooting "an assassination attempt" against former president Donald Trump. |
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OPINION | The assassination attempt of former President Donald Trump left a nation stunned. But the most shocking aspect was that it was not nearly as surprising as it should have been. For months, politicians, the press and pundits have escalated reckless rhetoric in this campaign on both sides. That includes claims that Trump was set to kill democracy, unleash "death squads" and make homosexuals and reporters "disappear." |
OPINION | The 75th anniversary of NATO is a momentous occasion, marking one of the longest-lived international partnerships in history. Yet its Washington Summit showed that the Atlantic alliance has forgotten its purpose. NATO must answer two fundamental questions. First, what will the structure of European security look like in light of the Ukraine war? Second, what capabilities are critical to deter Russia? |
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The former president was holding a rally when he said he was shot in his ear. Two people, including the suspected gunman, were killed and two were critically injured. |
BY C. RYAN BARBER, JAMES FANELLI AND JAN WOLFE |
The targeting of former President Donald Trump marks perhaps the biggest security crisis for the agency since Reagan was shot in 1981. |
BY JILL COLVIN, JULIE CARR SMYTH, COLLEEN LONG, ERIC TUCKER, MICHAEL BALSAMO AND MICHELLE L. PRICE |
Former President Donald Trump was the target of an assassination attempt Saturday at a Pennsylvania rally, days before he was to accept the Republican nomination for a third time. A barrage of gunfire set off panic, and a bloodied Trump, who said he was shot in the ear, was surrounded by Secret Service and hurried to his SUV as he pumped his fist in a show of defiance. |
Supporters argued that Democratic portrayals of Trump as a threat to democracy led to the violence, though the shooter's motive was not apparent at the time of their remarks.
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