Former President Donald Trump, the 2024 presumptive Republican presidential nominee, was escorted off the stage by Secret Service after gunshots were fired at his rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. Mr. Trump was injured from the incident, with blood appearing on the right side of his face. This occurred two days before the start of the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee. The Butler County, Pennsylvania, district attorney told the Associated Press that a shooter was dead and a rally attendee was killed.
At approximately 6:11 p.m. on July 13, 2024, Donald Trump, the former president of the United States and at that time the Republican Party‘s presumptive nominee in the 2024 presidential election, was shot and wounded while addressing a campaign rally near Butler, Pennsylvania.[5]The shooter was later identified as Thomas Matthew Crooks, a 20-year-old man from Bethel Park, Pennsylvania,[6][7] who fired eight rounds with an AR-15–style rifle from the roof of a nearby building outside the rally venue. He killed an audience member, critically injured two other audience members, and injured Trump in his upper right ear.[6] Crooks was then shot and killed by the United States Secret Service Counter Sniper Team.[8] The incident is being investigated as an attempted assassination and as a potential act of domestic terrorism.[9][10]
Footage of the incident showed Trump clasping his right ear before taking cover on the floor behind the podium, where he was surrounded by Secret Service personnel. After agents helped him to his feet, photographer Evan Vucci of the Associated Press captured images of a bloodied Trump pumping his fist in the air, with an American flag in the background, that went viral on social media and have been widely praised as iconic and historically important. Trump mouthed,[11][12] or shouted,[13] the words “Fight! Fight! Fight!” as he was escorted off-stage to his motorcade.[6][14] Taken to a nearby hospital, he was released a few hours later in stable condition. He made his first public appearance after the shooting two days later at the 2024 Republican National Convention.[15]
The shooting gave rise to widespread bipartisan condemnation of political violence, including by President Joe Biden, who called the incident “sick”.[16] Public figures expressed concerns about apparent security failures at the event and called for increased security for the major candidates in the election.[17] Crooks, who had borrowed the legally purchased rifle from his father, had no criminal record and his motive for the shooting is unknown. No ideology is indicated in his social media posts or other writings,[18] and authorities have stated that it is unknown whether the assassination attempt was related to his political views.[19] Experts considered the shooting a sign of political polarization in the United States, and political figures called for a reduction in tensions.[20][21] Soon after the shooting, misinformation, disinformation, and conspiracy theories quickly spread on social media.[22]
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