Joe Biden: Failed Trump assassination ‘not who we are as a nation’

President Joe Biden on Sunday condemned the attempted assassination of his predecessor, Donald Trump, as “contrary to everything we stand for as a nation” and said he was ordering an independent security review of how such an attack could have happened.

Biden delivered short afternoon remarks from the White House after receiving a briefing on the investigation in the Situation Room. He called for the country to “unite as one nation” and a “thorough and swift” review and asked the public not to “make assumptions” about the shooter’s motives or affiliations.

The president said he has also directed the U.S. Secret Service to review all security measures for the Republican National Convention, which begins Monday in Milwaukee. Hours later, Audrey Gibson-Cicchino, the Secret Service’s coordinator for the convention, said the weekend attack against Trump did not prompt any changes to the agency’s security plan for the event and that officials “are fully prepared.”

In his remarks, Biden called the attack on Trump “not who we are as a nation.”

“It’s not American. And we cannot allow this to happen,” he said. “Unity is the most elusive goal of all, but nothing is more important than that right now.”

Biden planned to deliver extended remarks to the nation Sunday evening in an address from the Oval Office. His campaign said the president would touch on “the need for every American to come together to not just condemn, but put to an end to political violence in this country.”

In the meantime, the president said he and first lady Jill Biden were praying for the family of Corey Comperatore, a former fire chief who was shot and killed during the Trump rally Saturday night in Butler, Pennsylvania.

“He was protecting his family from the