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The FBI is still trying to determine a motive behind Saturday’s attempt to assassinate former President Donald Trump, while the tone of this week’s Republican convention in Milwaukee likely will be dominated by the violence.
BUTLER, Pa. — Former President Donald Trump was the target of an assassination attempt Saturday when a gunman opened fire at him at a rally about 30 miles north of Pittsburgh.
What we knowFormer President Donald Trump was injured in an assassination attempt at a campaign rally Saturday in Pennsylvania, where he was shot in the ear. He arrived yesterday in Milwaukee, where the Republican National Convention is scheduled to begin today. The FBI is investigating the shooting as an act of domestic terrorism although a motive is still not known for the deceased shooter, identified as Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20, of Bethel Park, Pennsylvania. President Joe Biden called on Americans to "lower the temperature" of political rhetoric in an address from the Oval Office on Sunday night, asking for more respectful discourse and civility in the wake of the assassination attempt. Republicans are expected to enter the convention more unified, as the party rallied behind Trump.More security is expected at the four-day event, but no major changes are anticipated for the program. Several speakers were told not to change their speeches.
An ex-Secret Service agent who got shot while shielding former President Ronald Reagan during an assassination attempt in 1981 addressed the shooting at Donald Trump’s rally over the weekend.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Secret Service is investigating how a gunman armed with an AR-style rifle was able to get close enough to shoot and injure former President Donald Trump at a rally Saturday in Pennsylvania, in a devastating failure of one of the agency’s core duties.
The 20-year-old gunman who tried to assassinate former President Donald J. Trump at a rally in Pennsylvania appears to have acted alone, F.B.I. officials said on Sunday, but investigators remain unsure of his motives and political beliefs and have not yet been able to determine what evidence might be on his cellphone.
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President Biden on Sunday called for an “independent review” of security measures before and after the attempted assassination of former President Donald J. Trump, while directing the Secret Service to review all of its security measures for the Republican National Convention this week.