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Monday, July 15, 2024

How Attempted Assassination of Donald Trump Unfolded


The Trump rally attack marks a dark day in U.S. politics. One spectator is dead. Two others were critically injured.

The Wall Street Journal reports the presumptive Republican nominee for president emerged bloodied but defiant from a scene of mayhem Saturday in Pennsylvania. Spectators warned police about a man with a gun as suspected gunman Thomas Matthew Crooks prepared his attempt to assassinate former President Donald Trump from a rooftop less than 450 feet from the rally stage. Authorities named 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks as the suspected gunman and are now trying to determine a motive for the shooting.


Former President Donald Trump said Sunday that God "prevented the unthinkable from happening," the morning after he survived a shooting at a campaign rally in Butler, Pa. The Secret Service shot and killed the suspected gunman, 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks. Authorities also found explosive devices in the car he had been driving, according to people briefed on the investigation.

The shooting plunged the Secret Service into its biggest security crisis in decades.

The agency faces a torrent of questions about how the shocking attack on Trump could happen, with several investigations likely to follow. Rep. James Comer (R., Ky.), chairman of the House Oversight Committee, said within hours of the shooting that his panel was opening a probe, and he called on the Secret Service’s director to appear on July 22.

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