TWO DEAD, ONE CRITICALLY INJURED AS GUNMEN ATTACKED TRUMP’S CAMPAIGN RALLY IN PENNYSLAVENIA
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Law enforcement agents were investigating what they suspected may have been a genuine attempt on Donald Trump’s life at a campaign rally on Saturday in Butler, Pennsylvania.
A Secret Service spokesperson said on X that “the former president [was] safe” after more than a dozen gunshots erupted, prompting agents protecting Trump to leap on him amid the ensuing panic.
Trump himself said he was “fine” in a statement and was being checked at a medical facility.
The local district attorney, Richard Goldringer, told NBC News that both the suspected shooter and one spectator were dead following Saturday’s violence.
A third person – a spectator as well – is criticially injured, Goldringer said.
A spokesperson for the former president added that Trump thanked “law enforcement and first responders for their quick action during this heinous act”.
Video from NBC News captured more than a dozen shots, with later ones apparently coming from agents protecting the president.
A voice could be heard saying: “Get down, get down, get down!” Agents arrived to throw themselves on top of Trump as the gunfire continued and screams were heard from the crowd.
Audio from the network captured agent’s voices saying: “Shooter’s down. Shooter’s down. Are we good to move? We’re clear, we’re clear.”
campaign eventof the list and I believe that the woman that’s running the Secret Service part is not doing her job.”
Referring to the Republican national convention, due to start on Monday, he added: “I’m not comfortable with what’s happening in Milwaukee.” But he added: “His detachment is fantastic.”
Bannon argued that Trump had been portrayed as a new Julius Caesar everywhere from a New York theatre production to an essay by leading scholar Robert Kagan, paving the way for a would-be assassin to feel justified in emulating Brutus.
He said Abraham Lincoln received similar treatment after the Civil War.“Remember John Wilkes Booth. In the southern press, and in particular the Richmond papers, Caesar-ism, Lincoln is Caesar, Lincoln is taking your liberties. You fought this war, but even in losing the war, he’s going to take all your liberties and enslave you.”
Source: The Guardian
