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Trump safe, gunman among two dead after shooting at campaign rally

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Trump safe, gunman among two dead after shooting at campaign rally

AMERICANS WILL NEVER FORGET, THIS IMAGE WILL BE etched in our minds. FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP, WITH BLOOD ON HIS FACE, RAISES HIS FIST TO THE CROWD, MOMENTS AFTER A POSSIBLE KILLER OPENED FIRE AT HIS RALLY. AND AS OF TONIGHT, THE FORMER PRESIDENT IS OK. HE IS SAFE. THE GUNNERS IS DEAD AND A FULL INVESTIGATION IS UNDERWAY. THANK YOU ALL FOR JOINING US TONIGHT AT 11 SATURDAY NIGHT. I’M ED HARDING AND I’M JESSICA BROWN AGAIN. FORMER PRESIDENT SAYS HE’S FINE. DONALD TRUMP WAS ON STAGE IN PENNSYLVANIA WHEN THE SHOOTING HAPPENED. THIS IS THE MOMENT WHEN THE SHOOTS RINGED TONIGHT, JUST AFTER SIX. IF YOU REALLY WANT TO SEE SOMETHING THAT MEANINGFUL, LOOK AT WHAT HAPPENED. YOU HEARD SOME POP, POP, POP NOISES. YOU SEE THE PRESIDENT REACHING FOR HIS EAR. THE SCREAMS. YOU SEE TRUMP REACHING FOR HIS EAR AND THEN DUCKING. SECRET SERVICE AGENTS RUSH TO SURROUND HIM, PROTECTING THE PRESIDENT WITH THEIR OWN BODIES. SECONDS LATER, AGENTS HAD THE FORMER PRESIDENT ON HIS FEET, STILL SURROUNDING HIM. THEY ARE HOLDING HIM. YOU SEE, THEN THERE WERE SHOUTS AND CONFUSION FROM THE CROWD. TRUMP FINALLY RAISED HIS FIST IN THE AIR TO SIGNAL THAT HE WAS OK, AND YOU COULD HEAR CHEERS FROM THE CROWD. SO HERE’S THE MOMENT AGAIN. WATCH IT IN SLOW MOTION. TRUMP TURNS TURNS. HE REACTS TO SOMETHING, GRABS HIS RIGHT EAR. THE PRESIDENT SPEAKED. HE REACHED HIS EAR. HE STARTS TO LIE DOWN TO THE GROUND RAPIDLY. OBVIOUSLY HE GETS HIT BY SOMETHING. SOMETHING THAT WE TALK ABOUT, BY THE WAY, THAT PRESIDENTS IMMEDIATELY GO TO THE GROUND. THEY ARE TOLD TO DO SO BY THE SECRET SERVICE. FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP RECENTLY DESCRIBED THE INCIDENT IN A SOCIAL MEDIA POST. HE FOLLOWED, QUOTE: “I WAS SHOT BY A BULLET THAT PIERCED THE UPPER PART OF MY RIGHT EAR. I KNEW IMMEDIATELY SOMETHING WAS WRONG AND I HEARD A WHOSHING SOUND OF GUNSHOT AND I IMMEDIATELY FELT THE BULLET PUNCHING THE SKIN. THERE IS PROFESSIONAL BLEEDING, SO THAT’S WHEN I REALIZED WHAT WAS HAPPENING. SO HERE WE ARE, 11:15 AT NIGHT, AND THIS IS THE LATEST WE KNOW RIGHT NOW. AS WE TELL YOU, THE FORMER PRESIDENT IS SAFE. HIS CAMPAIGN SAYS HE IS BEING EVALUATED AT A LOCAL MEDICAL FACILITY TO DETERMINE WHAT HAPPENED. HE HAS LEFT THE FACILITY IN PENNSYLVANIA. HIS SON, DON JUNIOR, HAS RELEASED A STATEMENT SAID HE WAS – AND I QUOTE HERE – IN GREAT MOOD, THE SHOOTER IS DEAD. SOURCES TELL ABC NEWS THE SHOOTER WAS A MAN, BUT THERE ARE FEW DETAILS AT THIS TIME; AT LEAST ONE PERSON WHO WAS AT THE RALLY WAS KILLED. TWO OTHERS ARE SERIOUSLY INJURED. AND A FEW HOURS AGO, PRESIDENT BIDEN DELIVERED A WORD TO THE NATION CONDEMNING POLITICAL VIOLENCE AND SAID IT WAS, QUOTE, SICK. AND IN THE LAST HOUR WE LEARNED THAT BIDEN AND TRUMP HAVE BEEN ON THE PHONE, AND THERE IS A FULL INVESTIGATION UNDERWAY TO FIND OUT HOW THIS HAPPENED, WHO THE SHOOTER WAS, AND WHAT MAY HAVE BEEN HIS MOTIVE. OUR SHAUN CHAIYABHAT IS ON THE EDITORIAL OFFICE, AND NEW REPORTS ARE COMING IN RIGHT NOW. SEAN. YES, THIS INVESTIGATION IS LESS THAN FIVE HOURS OLD AT THIS POINT. THE SHOOTING TOOK PLACE IN A VERY PUBLIC PLACE. AGAIN HIS STATEMENT, THE SHOOTER KILLED ONE BYSTANDER AND SERIOUSLY INJURED TWO OTHERS. BUT THE FORMER PRESIDENT NEARLY ESCAPES AN OBVIOUS ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT. JUST MINUTES AFTER DONALD TRUMP ENTERS THE STAGE IN BUTLER, PENNSYLVANIA, SEVERAL LOUD BANGS ARE HEARD. LOOK AT WHAT HAPPENED. THE FORMER PRESIDENT GRABS THE SIDE OF HIS FACE. LATER THEY REVEAL HIS RIGHT EAR AND HIS BLOOD-COVERED FACE. SECRET SERVICE AGENTS SURROUND HIM, LAY HIM TO THE GROUND AND COVER HIM WITH THEIR BODIES. POLICE WITH TACTICAL GEAR AND LONG GUNS STORM THE STAGE. DONALD TRUMP THEN STANDS UP, STILL SURROUNDED BY SECRET SERVICE AGENTS, RAISES HIS RIGHT FIST AND SIGNALS TO THE CROWD THAT HE IS OK AS HE IS ESCORTED OFF THE STAGE. THE FORMER PRESIDENT IS DRAWN TO A VEHICLE WHICH WILL TAKE HIM TO A MEDICAL FACILITY. HIS CARRIAGE WAS ALSO FOLLOWED BY AN AMBULANCE. THE SECRET SERVICE NOW SAYS A SUSPECTED SHOOTER FIRED SEVERAL SHOTS TOWARDS THE STAGE FROM AN ELEVATED POSITION OUTSIDE THE CUSTOM AREA. U.S. SECRET SERVICE OFFICERS HAVE NEUTRALIZED THE SHOOTER, WHO DIED INVESTMENT. ABC NEWS REPORTS THE SHOOTER USED AN AR-15 RIFLE AND FIRED EIGHT SHOTS FROM A RANGE OF 2 TO 300 YARDS. AUTHORITIES NOW SAY THE SHOOTER IS DEAD, ALONG WITH A SPECTATOR. TWO OTHERS ARE SERIOUSLY INJURED. BUTLER COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY. THE SHOOTER WAS NOT AT THE EVENT. THE SHOOTER WAS ON THE ROOF OF A BUILDING ADJACENT TO THE VENUE AND, UM, SO THEY WOULDN’T HAVE HAD TO DO THE SECURITY PROCESS FOR OPERATION OF THE RALLY AND, UM, YOU REMEMBER, BE SUBJECT TO THE SEARCH AND EVERYTHING. TRUMP CONFIRMED ON SOCIAL MEDIA THAT I WAS SHOT BY A BULLET THAT PIERCED THE TOP OF MY RIGHT EAR. I KNEW IMMEDIATELY SOMETHING WAS WRONG BECAUSE I HEARD A WHOSHING SOUND AND SHOTS AND I IMMEDIATELY FELT THE BULLET BREAK THE SKIN. THE PRESIDENT ALSO EXPRESSES HIS CONDOMINATIONS TO THE FAMILY OF THE PERSON AT THE RALLY WHO WAS KILLED AND ALSO TO THE FAMILY OF ANOTHER PERSON WHO WAS SERIOUSLY INJURED. I AM DISGUSTED AND, UM, SAD THAT SOMEONE ACTUALLY LOST THEIR LIFE TO THIS EVENT. UNFORTUNATELY, IT JUST SEEMS TO BE, I DON’T WANT TO SAY, A MICROCOSMOS, BUT THE STATE OF OUR COUNTRY, WHERE WE ARE RIGHT NOW AND HOW DIVIDED WE ARE. TRUMP ALSO SAYS ON SOCIAL MEDIA THAT NOTHING IS KNOWN ABOUT THE SHOOTER, THE SHOOTER’S MOTIVE REMAINS UNCLEAR. BUT RESTORED: OFFICIALS ARE INVESTIGATING THIS AS AN ATTEMPT TO MURDER. PEOPLE FROM ALL POLITICAL

Trump safe, gunman among two dead after shooting at campaign rally

When Donald Trump spoke at a rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday, he appeared to be the target of an assassination attempt.

When Donald Trump spoke at a rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday, he appeared to be the target of an assassination attempt.

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