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15-07-2024
BUTLER: Donald Trump says he is “supposed to be dead” after surviving an assassination attempt on Saturday night.
He says he will “bring the country together” at the Republican convention this week and will give a “whole different speech” to the “humdinger” he had planned.
On Sunday night, President Biden gave a televised address, where he called for the “temperature of politics” to be lowered.
The man who tried to kill Trump, Thomas Crooks, 20 was shot and killed by the Secret Service but his motive remains unknown.
School classmates remember a “normal boy” who had been rejected by the school’s rifle team.
It’s been reported that a law enforcement officer found Crooks moments before the shooting but retreated down a ladder when Crooks aimed his rifle at the officer.
As we’ve reported earlier, Donald Trump is expected to speak at the Republican National Convention (RNC) in Milwaukee this week, where he will be formally nominated as the party’s presidential candidate.
The party conference is going ahead as planned, with Audrey Gibson-Cicchino, the RNC’s liaison with the Secret Service, saying she was “not anticipating any security changes”, despite the assassination attempt against Trump on Saturday.
“We are confident in the security plans for this event and we are ready to go,” she told reporters.
Some 50,000 people are expected to attend the four-day jamboree of pageantry, politics and policy as the party makes its case to voters ahead of November’s general election.
Corey Comperatore, a husband and father of two, was killed trying to protect his family during the attempted assassination of Donald Trump on Saturday.
The 50-year-old was a volunteer fire chief, and according to his social media profiles, worked as a project and tooling engineer at a plastics manufacturing company.
An avid Trump supporter, he was attending the rally near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, which is about 12 miles from his home.
Comperatore’s daughter Allyson, writing on social media, described him as “the best dad a girl could ever ask for” and said he had “died a real-life superhero”.
“He threw my mom and I to the ground…..(and) shielded my body from the bullet that came at us,” she said, describing the moment of the shooting.
In interviews, neighbors and friends have described him as a good man who played an active role in his community. Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro said Comperatore “died a hero”.
A GoFundMe set up for his family has raised more than $830,000 (£640,000).
A law enforcement officer found gunman Thomas Matthew Crooks moments before he fired towards former President Trump, two officials told the Associated Press on a condition of anonymity.
Crooks is said to have pointed his gun at the officer, who retreated down a ladder, and the 20-year-old “quickly fired” at Trump.
Witnesses previously told media that they reported the gunman to police “minutes” before he opened fire.
The US Secret Service has been under scrutiny since Saturday with the FBI saying it’s “surprising” a gunman was able to open fire at the rally before being killed.
Let’s have a look at another detail we learned from Trump’s interview with the New York Post.
In one of the videos of the assassination attempt, Trump can be heard saying: “I want to get my shoes.”
He explained to the Post that the agents who tackled and jumped on him in the aftermath of the shot hit him so hard that his shoes fell off and “my shoes are tight,” he told the newspaper.
Trump also commended the Secret Service personnel for their actions and praised them for shooting the gunman. (Int’l News Desk)
