A July 14 Facebook post stated that "Trump took a bullet, or a bullet fragment, in the chest but was saved by his bullet proof vest which he had just started wearing."
538 discusses how the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump will affect the work that lawmakers do.
The Secret Service said they increased security on Trump’s life weeks before Thomas Crooks made an attempt on him.
More than 50 years after John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., and Robert F. Kennedy were assassinated, America has become a ticking time bomb of political violence in words and deeds.
Former President Donald Trump said he believed the move was “the right thing to do.”
President Joe Biden has directed the Secret Service to provide a security detail to independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
The announcement from Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas came amidst growing bipartisan calls to extend protections to Kennedy following Saturday's failed assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump.
“Maintaining the safety and
President Joe Biden has directed the Secret Service to provide a security detail to independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
The Conversation spoke with Javed Ali, a scholar of counter-terrorism and a former FBI and Department of Homeland Security official, to better understand the security failures.
Widespread concerns and questions have arisen about how a sniper managed to gain rooftop access approximately 150 meters from the former president.
(Editor’s note: This story was updated after President Joe Biden’s remarks on Sunday, July 13.)
WASHINGTON —President Joe Biden Sunday called for unity and pledged an independent review following the campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, on Saturday where former President Donald J. Trump was shot and injured.
“An assassination attempt is contrary to everything we stand for as a nation,” Biden said in remarks from the White House Sunday afternoon, adding that “there is no place in America
President Joe Biden Sunday called for unity and pledged an independent review following the campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, on Saturday.
The Trump rally shooting reveals a bipartisan consensus about what constitutes political violence — and who should wield it.
Shooter’s uncle: ‘I haven’t seen that part of my family in years,’ he said. ‘Honestly it’s been so long I don’t think much about them.’
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