Butler, PA

Assassination attempt on Trump raises questions about Secret Service security measures. After a narrow escape from an assassination attempt, scrutiny is mounting on the security measures surrounding former President Donald Trump. Trump was targeted by a shooter identified as Thomas Crooks during a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. The assailant was armed with a high-powered semi-automatic rifle, specifically an AR-15 variant, a weapon infamously associated with numerous shootings.

Who are the counter snipers of the US Secret Service who neutralized Trump’s shooter?

NBC News

Before a would-be assassin took aim at Donald Trump during a campaign rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday, local police officers notified the former president’s Secret Service detail that they were looking for a suspicious person in the area, a U.S. official told NBC News. The suspicious person, later identified...

Police warned Secret Service of a suspicious person at Trump rally before gunman opened fire, source says

Knewz

Dan Bongino, a Secret Service veteran of 12 years, has ripped into the agency’s current chief blaming her for the Donald Trump assassination attempt. Knewz.com has learned that despite the back and forth between the state-sponsored VIP protection group and the Butler Sheriff’s Department – and even after it was found that the latter had […]

I’m a Former Secret Service Agent: These are the Failures at Trump Rally Point by Point

Pennsylvania State

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Bucks County Beacon

With an assassination attempt on Donald Trump at a rally in Pennsylvania on July 13, 2024, the U.S. experienced another violent episode in its increasingly polarized politics. Former President Trump, who’s about to formally become the GOP nominee for president in the 2024 election, survived the attempted assassination when, initial reports said, a bullet grazed his ear . But one rally attendee was killed , more spectators were injured and the suspected gunman is also dead. The Conversation’s politics editor, Naomi Schalit, spoke with University of Massachusetts, Lowell, scholar Arie Perliger after the event. Perliger offered insight from his study of political violence and assassinations. Given the stark political polarization in the U.S., Perliger said, “it’s not a surprise that eventually people engage in violence.”

‘One Inch from a Potential Civil War’? Trump Shooting a Close Call for American Democracy

WEKU

The gunman, who was killed by Secret Service personnel, fired multiple times from an elevated position outside of the rally venue, about 150 yards from where Trump was speaking.

The Secret Service is investigating how man the who shot Trump got as close as he did

New York City, NY

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Cheryl E Preston

Yesterday was the third time this year that an ad stating Chelsea Clinton lives in a beautiful Virginia home popped up on my laptop. My computer did not warn me this was a dangerous site, so this time, I clicked on the link.

Chelsea Clinton is rumored to be living in Virginia but probably still in NYC

Inquisitr.com


                Coulter was not the only one with gender-biased remarks. Many right-wingers argued that DEI initiatives were why the Secret Service failed.

Social Media Puzzled as Conservative Ann Coulter Asks Why There Are ‘Girl Secret Service Agents’

WashingtonExaminer

Shortly after former President Donald Trump was shot during a failed assassination attempt Saturday he asked repeatedly for his shoes, an alternate angle provides an answer to why he had that concern. During the chaotic scene after Trump ducked down and was escorted off stage, the microphone on the stage picked up Trump saying he […]

Trump asked for shoes after Secret Service hit him ‘so hard’ they went flying

The man identified as the shooter in the apparent assassination attempt of former President Donald Trump was a 20-year-old from a Pittsburgh suburb not far from the campaign rally where one attendee was killed. Investigators were working Sunday to gather more information about Thomas Matthew Crooks of Bethel Park, Pennsylvania, who they say opened fire at the rally before being killed by Secret Service days before Trump was to accept the Republican nomination for a third time.

Police identify 20-year-old suspect in Trump assassination attempt

What began as a jubilant rally Saturday for Donald Trump days before he becomes the official Republican presidential nominee ended in mere minutes with the former president bloodied and a suspected would-be assassin shot dead by the Secret Service. There was also one spectator killed and two others who were...

Trump assassination attempt: What we know so far

Virginia State

Charisma reveals that Megachurch pastor Joel Osteen has been criticized again for what are considered to be insensitive comments. On his Twitter/X account, the Texas preacher said the following.

Virginia ministers weigh in on Joel Osteen's comments about blessings

Continuing their investigation into Sunday's assassination attempt on former president Donald Trump, authorities search for answers as to why Thomas Crooks, 20, the main suspect, carried out the attack.

No motive for Trump assassination identified

Trump had been wounded by a gunman at a campaign rally in Philadelphia. But Fredericks, who spent a week preparing for the convention, remained confident that Trump would still come to Milwaukee, despite having come so close to death. "He isn't going to hover in a corner," Fredericks said, who...

Shock in Milwaukee after Trump shooting

US District Judge Aileen Cannon presiding over the classified documents case against former president Donald Trump in Florida dismissed the prosecution on Monday on a technicality, the Guardian's David Smith tells FRANCE 24.

Federal judge dismisses classified documents case against Trump on technicality

Within minutes of the attempt on Donald Trump's life at a campaign rally, the US Secret Service faced a wave of criticism for failing its "no fail" responsibility: ensuring the safety of its high-profile protectees. While new information emerges about the campaign-altering incident, key questions remain about who was responsible for what safety roles at the rally, and why the roof used by the would-be assassin was not secured.

Famed US Secret Service in hot seat after Trump shooting

Former US president Donald Trump's reaction to an apparent assassination attempt at a campaign rally Saturday could have huge sway over the narrative surrounding the incident, Former pentagon advisor Jasmine El-Gamal told FRANCE 24. "It could go two different ways, one could hope that his address at the RNC – Republican National Convention – that Donald Trump would say 'look, I am also guilty of this, we have been using divisive, political rhetoric for way too long, it's brought us to a really dark place, we have four more months and we cannot continue like this' and to pledge to do better," El-Gamal said.

Trump rally shooting aftermath: ‘It could go two different ways’

The Secret Service denied allegations that former President Donald Trump‘s team requested reinforcements as questions mount about how a shooter was able to get so close to the former president during his rally. Following the assassination attempt against Trump Saturday during his rally in Pennsylvania, the Secret Service has been under scrutiny over the incident, […]

Secret Service denies that Trump had requested more security before assassination attempt

POLITICO

How a gunman could scale a roof where Trump was speaking prompts calls for investigation.

‘Massive security breach’: Secret Service under scrutiny after gunman got clear shot at Trump

The Hill

Retired Secret Service agent Jeff James explained the challenges security officers face during outdoor rallies as lawmakers raise questions over the Secret Service’s preparation and response to the attempted assassination attempt against former President Trump at a Pennsylvania rally. When asked on “Fox News Sunday,” how difficult it is to secure an outdoor rally like…

Retired Secret Service agent on Trump rally shooting: Outdoor rallies ‘incredibly hard’ to secure

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Alameda Post

California regulators just stopped AT&T from pulling the plug. California’s Public Utilities Commission on June 20 rejected AT&T’s application to stop providing landlines and other services in areas where there is no other option.

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Trump rally security 'shambolic': 'Phantom of complicit behaviour' hangs over US Secret Service

In what's being described as “an absolute and abysmal failure” on the part of the Secret Service to protect Donald Trump, FRANCE 24's Genie Godula is...

Trump rally security 'shambolic': 'Phantom of complicit behaviour' hangs over US Secret Service

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