Trump attends RNC despite being shot
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Former President Donald Trump attended the Republican National Convention is Milwaukee Monday after being was shot Saturday afternoon at a MAGA rally in rural Butler, Pennsylvania, near Pittsburgh. Video of the twice impeached and 34 times convicted felon, who is the Republican Party’s presumptive nominee, showed him grabbing the side of his face and later bleeding as Secret Service agents tackled him. Several shots rang out as the crowd screamed in fear. Trump appeared to have been bleeding as Secret Service agents rushed him out of the venue.
Trump posted on social media he was “shot with a bullet that pierced the upper part of my right ear.”
The shooter, 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks from Bethel, Pennsylvania, was fatally shot on a nearby rooftop by a Secret Service sniper.
Corey Comperatore, a firefighter attending the rally with his family, was fatally shot by the shooter while shielding his family. Two other people at the rally were also shot.
President Joe Biden issued the following statement immediately following the incident:
“I have been briefed on the shooting at Donald Trump’s rally in Pennsylvania. I’m grateful to hear that he’s safe and doing well. I’m praying for him and his family and...
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