Posts on Monday, July 15, 2024
In the wake of the attempted assassination of Donald Trump, Brexit leader Nigel Farage announced that he is going make an emergency trip to the United States to show solidarity with his longtime friend and political ally.
The newly-elected Reform UK Member of Parliament said that he will fly to Milwaukee for the Republican National Convention this week to “stand shoulder to shoulder with President Trump and the US to stand up for democracy.”
Writing in The Telegraph the morning following the attempt on Donald Trump’s life by a gunman, Mr Farage said: “I do so to support my friend, Donald Trump,
Former White House press secretary and MSNBC host Jen Psaki said Monday on the network’s coverage of the Republican National Convention that Teamsters president Sean O’Brien’s speech to the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee stung “a bit” for Democrats.
Psaki said, “I think this one stings a bit. I don’t think it matters hugely but it I think it does sting a bit if you are the Democrats and the Biden team. There perhaps there hasn’t been a more pro-labor president aside from Joe Biden in modern history.”
Co-host Rachel Maddow said, “Although Sean O’Brien has been telegraphing this for a long time. This is not a surprise.”
Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) delivered a powerful speech at the Republican National Convention (RNC) this week in which he compared former President Trump to a lion climbing back to his feet following the failed assassination attempt on his life.
“Are you ready for 4 more years of Donald Trump?” Tim Scott asked the crowd, who enthusiastically responded.
“If you didn’t believe in miracles before Saturday, you better be believing right now,” he said. “Thank God almighty that we live in a country that still believes in the King of Kings and Lord of Lords, the Alpha and the Omega. And our God – Our God! – still saves.
Former President Donald Trump arrived at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on Monday, two days after surviving an assassination attempt.
Lee Greenwood first spoke to the crowd, making it clear that “prayer works” ahead of Trump’s introduction.
“Is there any doubt who’s going to be the next President of the United States?” he asked.
“Prayer works — this nation based on faith. Prayer works, because he was sure as Donald Trump turned his head just slightly, that the bullet missed him just enough to save his life to be the next President of the United States,” Greenwood said as the crowd cheered.
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MILWAUKEE — Two days after surviving an attempted assassination, former President Donald Trump appeared triumphantly at the Republican National Convention’s opening night with a bandage over his right ear, the latest compelling scene in a presidential campaign already defined by dramatic turns.
GOP delegates cheered wildly when Trump appeared onscreen backstage and then emerged in the arena, visibly emotional, as musician Lee Greenwood sang “God Bless the USA.” That was hours after the convention had formally nominated the former president to head the Republican ticket in November against President Joe Biden.
Trump did not address the hall
Former President Donald Trump doubled down in his pursuit of the Rust Belt with his choice of Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) as his running mate in the 2024 presidential race.
Before Vance was elected to the Senate from Ohio in 2022, winning a crowded Republican primary with Trump’s endorsement, he was the bestselling author of Hillbilly Elegy, a memoir that also dealt with the broader topics of drug addiction, family breakdown, and poverty in rural communities.
Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin are the states where Trump sealed his victory over Hillary Clinton in 2016. He narrowly lost all three states to President Joe Biden in 2020.
ABC got an exclusive interview with U.S. Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle, which you have to admit was a good "get."
What wasn't good at all was her responses to the questions swirling around the Secret Service's inability to prevent an assassin from taking a series of shots at a former president and current presidential candidate from a bit more than a football field away. As is so often the case in the Biden Administration, no level of failure results in accountability.
"The buck stops with me" is the equivalent of a grunt, not a statement of responsibility. Cheatle mouths the words but refuses to step down
Biden Labels Trump ‘Threat to Democracy’
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President Biden doubled down on his assertion that Donald Trump is a “threat to democracy” during an interview with NBC News on Monday, despite repeatedly calling on Americans to lower the temperature in U.S. politics in the wake of a failed assassination attempt against the former president.
In a 20-minute interview that aired unedited Monday evening, NBC anchor Lester Holt asked Biden whether he has done any “soul searching” about whether his own political rhetoric could incite people who are “not balanced.”
“How do you talk about the threat to democracy, which is real, when a president says things like he says?”
Usha Vance, the wife of Ohio Sen. JD Vance was thrust into the national spotlight after former President Donald Trump chose her husband as his running mate Monday. Usha Vance, née Chilukuri, born in 1986, was raised in San Diego, California, and attended Yale Law School, where she met the future Ohio senator, according to a report from the New York Times.
"We were friends, and I liked that he was very diligent," she told NBC News about how she met her husband in a 2017 interview. "He would show up at 9 a.m. appointments that I would set up for us to start working on the brief together."
During all the insanity that happened on Saturday involving the attempted assassination of Donald Trump, there was a moment that stood out to many, and it involved the conduct of the female Secret Service agents. As one clip showed, the women protecting Trump looked jittery and slightly unsure of themselves. One of them tried to holster her side arm but kept missing the holster, eventually just placing it close to her until it was easier to do so. This resulted in many people questioning why there were female Secret Service agents in the first place.
To be clear, I also spoke out about this,
Elon Musk reportedly plans to funnel approximately $45 million monthly into a new super political action committee (super PAC) supporting former President Donald Trump’s presidential bid. Sources familiar with the situation revealed this information to the Wall Street Journal. The committee, named America PAC, boasts an impressive roster of backers, such as Joe Lonsdale, co-founder of Palantir Technologies; the Winklevoss twins; former U.S. ambassador to Canada Kelly Craft; and her husband, Joe Craft, CEO of Alliance Resource Partners, a prominent coal producer.
Following U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon's decision to dismiss the classified documents case against former President Donald Trump, Special counsel Jack Smith said he intends to file an appeal.
"The dismissal of the case deviates from the uniform conclusion of all previous courts to have considered the issue that the Attorney General is statutorily authorized to appoint a Special Counsel. The Justice Department has authorized the Special Counsel to appeal the court’s order," Peter Carr, Public Information Jack Smith's office told Fox News Digital.
BUTLER, Pa. — Channel 11 news uncovered dramatic new details Monday in the moments leading up to the assassination attempt on former president Donald Trump. According to multiple law enforcement sources, Thomas Crooks was spotted by law enforcement on a roof nearly 30 minutes before shots were fired that injured Trump, (snip)
Channel 11′s Nicole Ford confirmed that Beaver County’s ESU team had eight members at the rally, including snipers and spotters.(snip) one of them noticed a suspicious man on a roof near the rally at 5:45 p.m., called it in
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BUTLER, Pa. — Channel 11 News uncovered dramatic new details Monday in the moments leading up to the assassination attempt on former president Donald Trump. According to multiple law enforcement sources, Thomas Crooks was spotted by law enforcement on a roof nearly 30 minutes before shots were fired that injured Trump, killed a former fire chief and injured two others in the crowd.
Channel 11′s Nicole Ford confirmed that Beaver County’s ESU team had eight members at the rally, including snipers and spotters. According to Ford’s sources, one of them noticed a suspicious man on a roof near the rally at 5:45 p.m.,
The "ladies" of ABC's "The View" are really taking President Joe Biden's message on Sunday to heart in the wake of the attempted assassination of Donald Trump. Biden urged Americans to “lower the temperature” and to remember "when we disagree, we are not enemies, we are neighbors, we are friends, co-workers, citizens and, most importantly, we are fellow Americans."
The panel was discussing the Trump attempted assassination and specifically the shooter, Thomas Matthew Crooks. Ana Navarro, the supposed "Republican" on the panel, had this stunning take on what really is the cause behind the assassination attempt.
As the investigation into Saturday’s assassination attempt against former President and newly-minted GOP nominee Donald Trump at a Pennsylvania rally intensifies, the Federal Bureau of Investigation announced Monday that they have successfully gained access to the suspected shooter’s phone.They have not revealed what information they’ve found on the device, but it is likely to contain a trove of information about the deceased suspect, 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks.
The FBI has not detailed any of the information contained in the phone. The agency began its investigation into Crooks and the shooting shortly after the Saturday attack. Agents went to Crooks' home and the home of his parents
President Biden struggled Monday to explain his recent demand that Democrats put former President Donald Trump in the “bull’s-eye,” saying it was a mistake but also saying he could have said worse.
In a clip from an interview with NBC Mr. Biden was asked about the words he used in a phone call with campaign supporters earlier this month.
“It was a mistake to use the — I didn’t use crosshairs, I meant bull’s-eye, I meant focus on him,” Mr. Biden said. According to the report in Politico, Mr. Biden was defending his continued campaign in the face of questions about his abilities.
“I have one job, and that’s to beat Donald Trump.
Earlier on Monday, former and potentially future President Donald Trump named Sen. JD Vance (R-OH) as his running mate, a pick that was announced during the roll call vote to formally nominate Trump at the RNC in Milwaukee. Democrats in Ohio and around the country were quick to put statements to lambast the move.As Fox News' Chad Pergram shared about the Ohio Democratic Party and other Democrats, a statement from the state party came out right away.
Speaking about having "a front row seat for J.D.'s political career," the statement from Ohio Democrats early on mentioned how " J.D. Vance is an out-of-touch millionaire
SARVER, PA — “Get down! Those were the final words of volunteer firefighter and father-of-two Corey Comperatore as he shielded his family from a sniper who opened fire on former President Donald Trump, his grieving widow told The Post. “He’s my hero,” Helen Comperatore said from her Sarver, Pennsylvania home on Monday. “He just said, ‘get down!’ That was the last thing he said.” (Photo) Helen Comperatore 11
Helen Comperatore told The Post her late husband Corey shouted “Get down!” before shielding his family from gunfire during the assassination attempt at a Pennsylvania Trump rally. (Photo) Comperatore was struck and killed by a bullet intended for former President Donald Trump
ABC News anchor George Stephanopoulos has been slammed for claiming that Donald Trump helped spread the 'violent rhetoric' that led to an assassination attempt just hours after the ex-president was shot.
During Sunday's episode of ABC's This Week Stephanopoulos and chief global affairs anchor Martha Raddatz discussed the current political environment.
The former president, 78, survived the attempt on his life when the bullet missed him by less than an inch on Saturday afternoon, at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.
Perhaps the only surprise here is that it's not a surprise. As many people had predicted, Donald Trump selected Senator J.D. Vance (R-OH) to run on the GOP presidential ticket. Vance had appeared to have the inside position on the veepstakes track for weeks, and didn't get eclipsed by the events of this weekend: After lengthy deliberation and thought, and considering the tremendous talents of many others, I have decided that the person best suited to assume the position of Vice President of the United States is Senator J.D. Vance of the Great State of Ohio. J.D. honorably served our Country in the Marine Corps, graduated from Ohio State
The Biden campaign issued a statement responding to former President Donald Trump’s announcement of Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) as his pick for vice president.
In a press release, Biden campaign chairwoman Jen O’Malley Dillon wrote that Trump had chosen Vance as “his running mate” because he “will do what” former Vice President Mike Pence “wouldn’t on
January 6.” “Donald Trump picked J.D. Vance as his running mate because Vance will do what Mike Pence wouldn’t on January 6: bend over backwards to enable Trump and his extreme MAGA agenda, even if it means breaking the law and no matter the harm to the American people.”
J.D. Vance, author of Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis, joined Breitbart News Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow for a wide-ranging interview Monday addressing the leftist frameworks of “critical race theory” and “white privilege,” growing consolidation of power within multinational corporations, and the political establishment’s neglect of working-class Americans.
Vance, who is contemplating a run for the U.S. Senate to represent Ohio, identified the paradigm of “critical race theory” as part of a broader political campaign to cultivate shame and self-hatred among white Americans while sowing seeds of discord across racial lines.
Former president Donald Trump is officially the Republican party’s presidential nominee for the third consecutive election cycle, an outcome that was effectively decided months ago after Trump dominated his primary challengers in the early-state contests.
Trump received enough delegates to officially become the GOP nominee when son Eric Trump allocated Florida’s delegates for Trump, to a rousing ovation from the crowd in Milwaukee, Wis. on Monday.
Eric Trump made the announcement flanked by brother Don Jr. and sister Tiffany, and wife Lara Trump, a co-chair of the Republican party. Once the cheering died down, Kool & the Gang’s famous 1980 hit Celebration
Data from Walt Disney's internal Slack workplace collaboration system have been leaked online, including those related to ad campaigns, studio technology and interview candidates, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday.
Hacking group NullBulge published data from thousands of Slack channels at the entertainment giant including computer code and details about unreleased projects, the report said, citing the group's blog post. The hacker group said in a post on Friday that it had released over 1 terabyte of data from Disney.
The leaked information includes talks on managing Disney's corporate website, software development, job applicant evaluations among others, with the data spanning back to at least 2019,
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Events may have overtaken Biden's now widely known cognitive issues. What you can readily take away from past assassination attempts is the empathy factor. None of the major networks (except Fox) regularly carry Trump rallies. This is likely to change after the near assassination of President Trump. Merely the optics of Trump, wounded but defiant, standing beneath an American flag and railing against a lone gunman, already dead but who thought he would rid the planet of Trump, is a harbinger of a November win.
By that act, Thomas Matthew Crooks will be recorded by history in one of several ways: misguided, crazy, a true believer
Tesla Inc. CEO and billionaire Elon Musk said on Monday that supported the choice that former President Donald Trump announced on his Truth Social media of choosing Ohio Senator JD Vance as vice presidential (VP) running mate in the 2024 election.
"Congratulations @JDVance1! Excellent decision by @realDonaldTrump," Musk wrote shortly after the formal VP choice was public and the Republican Party confirmed Trump as its official nominee in the 2024 election at the Republican National Convention (RNC).
Musk rushed on Saturday to endorse after Trump was confirmed to be unharmed after the shooting in Pennsylvania.
I’ll admit it.
I’m shaken to the core by the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump at a Pennsylvania rally on Saturday. He was shot by a sniper in his right ear. Blood streamed across his face in real time as the nation watched in horror. Trump is lucky to be alive. An attendee at the rally was killed. Others were critically injured.
It’s the most violent act against a sitting or former president that I can remember in my lifetime. (I was a baby when President Ronald Reagan was severely wounded in an assassination attempt in 1981.)
United States President Joe Biden is set to reveal a nationwide plan to cap rental costs, according to three sources cited by The Washington Post on Monday.
This announcement, expected in Nevada on Tuesday, addresses growing voter frustration over skyrocketing housing prices, especially in Nevada where citizens have experienced surges in housing costs, Biden aims to bolster his economic standing among voters.
The proposal includes eliminating a tax benefit for landlords raising rents by over 5% annually, affecting those owning more than 50 units. This move seeks to protect tenants without discouraging new construction.
With an eye toward the future of a Republican Party dominated by former President Trump and his legions of MAGA supporters, Trump has named 39-year-old Sen. JD Vance of Ohio as his running mate on the GOP'S 2024 national ticket. The former president, who made his greatly anticipated and high-stakes announcement on Monday as the Republican National Convention kicked off in swing-state Wisconsin's largest city, will now share the ticket with one of his top supporters in the Senate and a one-time Trump critic who has transformed into a leading America First disciple.
Vance, a former venture capitalist and the author of the bestselling memoir, "Hillbilly Elegy,”
Former President Donald Trump has chosen freshman Ohio Sen. JD Vance to serve as his No. 2 in his bid to return to the White House, ending months of speculation about who he had chosen for his VP.
Trump world insiders had long said the 78-year-old would choose someone based on “loyalty” and someone who would compliment his strong personality, but not overshadow him, raise money and be ready to serve.
The decision comes on the first day of the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and comes two days after a gunman shot Trump in the upper ear at a Pennsylvania rally. The shooter, 20-year-old Thomas Crooks, nearly missed Trump’s head,
Monday brought about a fresh round of presidential election polling and model updates, and the numbers are absolutely brutal for Joe Biden.
A new batch of swing state surveys was released, showing Trump dominating across the board, including in Arizona, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Nevada, and Georgia. As things stand, Trump is in position to win an electoral landslide. Pennsylvania, once reasonably believed to be a lost cost, has come full circle, and now this is just the latest of many polls showing the former president up big there. Nevada remains a very interesting contest as well,
The Federalist has a disturbing story emanating from the FBI: one of its many employees reportedly expressed disappointment that Donald Trump wasn’t assassinated on July 13. The employee, a former staffer with the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) unit, expressed a nasty glee over the attempted assassination of the former president. While not shocking given the extent of the rot within the FBI, it does add to the cause that Trump should clean house at the Justice Department should he regain his old job (via The Federalist): Jenna Howell, who is a Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) employee...
A years-long collapse in support for Democrats among young Gen Z "Zoomer" males accelerated to a dizzying speed during the Presidentish Joe Biden administration — and that's before Donald Trump's display of sheer damn manliness in the moments after Saturday's assassination attempt.
The collapse began in 2016, the same year Donald Trump was elected to his first term in office — and, looking back, it seems almost inevitable. That was the year the American Left went from merely unhinged to flying off the rails like Doc Brown and Clara Clayton at the very end of "Back to the Future Part III."
Actor and Comedian Jack Black is facing major backlash after his bandmate said, “Don’t miss Trump next time” while on stage at a concert in Sydney, Australia.
Black’s bandmate made the sickening comment just hours after the attempted assassination of President Donald Trump at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.
In a video of the concert, Black is seen giving his Tenacious D band member Kyle Gass a birthday cake during their concert at the ICC Sydney Theatre.
Black tells Gass to “make a wish.”
On Monday's installment of "The View," the ill-adjusted cohosts said that they would "try to heed" President Joe Biden's quite hypocritical admonition to "tamp down the rhetoric" and "turn down the temperature" following the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump. Predictably, they failed to control their normal divisiveness. Within a few sentences of saying she wanted to reflect and seek unity, Ana Navarro and Joy Behar immediately dove into an identity-obsessed discussion of the would-be assassin:
'I'm Supposed to Be Dead': Grateful Trump
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Former President Donald Trump exemplified a rare level of courage that few people are put in a position to show, on Saturday, moments after being shot by a would-be assassin, as he rose to his feet after wisely hitting the deck after being hit, likely saving his life.
Trump defiantly pumped his fist in the air, multiple times, as he was ushered off the stage stage by Secret Service agents, as if to show the faithful and the world that he not only survived; but more importantly that he was more than ready to continue his campaign to unseat Joe Biden. On Sunday, Trump said in an exclusive interview
Thomas Matthew Crooks, the 20-year-old Pennsylvania man who tried to assassinate former President Donald Trump on Saturday, reportedly got rejected from his high school shooting club for being a “comically bad” shot.
The shooter, who killed a Trump supporter and wounded two others while only grazing the former president’s ear during a rally, reportedly has a less-than-stellar record with shooting accuracy. Per the New York Post:
A few years before the assassination attempt, Crooks tried out for the rifle team at Bethel Park High School, two former classmates told The Post.
The shooting range at the school is 50 feet long by 21 feet wide,
Things got heated at the Staten Island GOP conference after the attempted assassination of Donald Trump, and some members have been tearing reporters a new one as they attempt to place the blame for it on...Donald Trump.
One fiery moment includes New York State Assemblyman Sam Pirozzolo, who got behind the podium to address accusations that Trump's own rhetoric is responsible for the attempt on his life and that the shooter was a registered Republican, something that the press has been attempting to use to absolve themselves of any blame.
Taking the stage, Pirozzolo chided the reporters for suggesting that this is just more Republican violence.
President Trump, in his latest message on Truth Soicla, called for the Secret Service to give immediate protection to Independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
As The Gateway Pundit previously reported, the Secret Service has denied Kennedy, the son of the late Senator Robert F. Kennedy and nephew of John F. Kennedy, who were both assassinated, Secret Service protection three times.
Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social,”In light of what is going on in the world today, I believe it is imperative that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. receive Secret Service protection immediately.”
Trump added, “Given the history of the Kennedy Family, this is the obvious right thing to do!”
Former President Donald Trump has completely overhauled his convention speech following Saturday's assassination attempt. In an exclusive interview with the Washington Examiner, Trump, who was millimeters away from being killed, will now call for a renewed effort at national unity during his speech on Thursday. Trump expressed his desire to seize this historic moment to unite the country.
“The speech I was going to give on Thursday was going to be a humdinger,” he told Salena Zito of the Washington Examiner. “Had this not happened, this would’ve been one of the most incredible speeches,” hitting at the policies of Joe Biden. “Honestly, it’s going to be a whole different speech now.”
‘Who Failed?’: CNN Host Presses Mayorkas
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CNN host Kate Bolduan pushed Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to answer to the Secret Service’s response in the lead up to the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump.
The Secret Service’s protection during the Saturday rally has come under intense scrutiny given that a gunman had the ability to fire into the arena, leaving one dead and others injured. Agents fatally took out the alleged shooter, who has been identified as 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks, as he opened fire from the roof of a nearby building.
Mayorkas ensured an independent review is being conducted into the incident
MILWAUKEE — In the hours after a would-be assassin fired a bullet through former President Donald Trump’s ear, Panfilo DiCenzo, a 40-year-old Democratic voter from Pittsburgh, drew a simple conclusion about the political effect of the attack: “It definitely is good for Trump.”
DiCenzo reasoned that undecided voters may “be more likely to vote for him out of sympathy” and that “especially with the upheaval in the Democratic Party, you know, more and more people I think are a little bit confused as to who to vote for.” At a time when President Joe Biden has been struggling to shore up support with fellow Democrats following a miserable
Former president Donald Trump has spoken out about the dismissal of the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case against him.
The Republican nominee, who is currently in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, for the Republican National Convention, sent a lengthy message via his account on Truth Social, sharing his thoughts on the dismissal and the government's continued prosecution against him. Trump's message to his followers was simple: It's time for the multiple cases against him to end and for the country to unite. (X) "As we move forward in Uniting our Nation after the horrific events on Saturday, this dismissal of the Lawless Indictment in Florida should be just the first step,
'Morning Joe' Pulled Off the Air in Wake
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As fans of MSNBC woke up on Monday morning, many no doubt waiting to be delivered the hottest takes from Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski, they were instead greeted by generic news desk coverage. That's because executives at the network made the call to pull "Morning Joe" off the air in the wake of the attempted assassination of Donald Trump. The reason why is telling.
According to CNN, which reported the development, this wasn't a case of routine preemption. After all, "Morning Joe" has been left intact through essentially every other breaking news story since its inception. Instead, the decision came from a much darker place:
Milwaukee, WI - The Republican National Committee kicks off on Monday, just two days after former President Trump, the GOP's standard-bearer, survived an assassination attempt.
And the former president, in an interview hours ahead of the start of the convention, told Fox News' Bret Baier that an announcement on his running mate will come on Monday. (Photo) The Saturday shooting at Trump's rally in western Pennsylvania – where one spectator was killed and two more critically injured, and the former president visibly bloodied after a bullet grazed his ear – has altered the tone and raised the stakes of the convention.
At the four-day confab,
I wrote on Sunday about new video showing people pointing out the Trump shooter on the roof of a nearby building.
You could see the people saying, "He's on the roof," and trying to get the police to respond. You can hear Trump still speaking, still on the stage. As the seconds ticked off, you had to wonder what was going on and why they weren't getting to the guy. The video lasted just under a minute. I mentioned in the prior story that some were placing it at about two minutes between the video beginning where the people spot him and the shots.
Now, there's a great video
A Trump-backed fundraiser for the victims of the Butler, Pennsylvania, rally on Saturday has far surpassed its original $1 million goal.
“President Donald Trump has authorized this account as a place for donations to the supporters and families wounded or killed in today’s brutal and horrific assassination attempt,” reads the GoFundMe description. “All donations will be directed to these proud Americans as they grieve and recover. May God bless and unite our nation.” At the time of writing, $3.7 million has been raised from more than 50,000 donors, with prominent figures and groups,
As gunshots rang out during the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump during a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, on July 13, Secret Service agents quickly formed a protective circle around the former president and escorted him off the platform to a waiting vehicle.(anip)The Epoch Times spoke with several former Secret Service agents about the incident and what could have been done to prevent it.
Brian Gant, a former Secret Service agent who was active during the Obama administration, told The Epoch Times that the agents’ primary focus would be to seal off the area and remove Trump from danger immediately.
“Open-air rallies present significant security challenges,
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) provided The Daily Wire with an exclusive first reaction to the dismissal of special counsel Jack Smith‘s classified documents case against former President Donald Trump on Monday.
The news broke as Johnson was speaking with Daily Wire Editor Emeritus Ben Shapiro at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee.
“It’s the right result. We’ve had lots of consternation about this in the House, of course,” Johnson told The Daily Wire. “We’ve been ringing the bells about Jack Smith and how inappropriate the whole thing was and it’s really gratifying to see a court rule that.”
A Catholic priest who gave the benediction at former President Donald Trump’s rally on Saturday reportedly prayed for his safety–and urged Americans at the rally to do so too–just moments before the attempted assassination.
Father Jason Charron, a Ukranian Catholic pastor, had given a benediction prior to the former president’s rally on Saturday. As he was trying to leave, a group of 15 to 20 people reportedly called him over to a barricade within the rally asking that he pray.
“I said to them: I prayed for him and his safety, but that they have to pray, as well, because there are people who want to kill him,”
One of the big questions that many have about the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump is how the shooter was able to get onto the roof, close enough to be able to shoot Trump and hit three other people, killing one and wounding two others. Plus, why, once he was spotted, wasn't he dealt with sooner, or why Trump wasn't rushed off the stage?
It would appear that someone dropped the ball in a severe failure.
Now Real Clear Politics' Susan Crabtree has some new information from sources within the Secret Service. Crabtree said that Secret Service resources were diverted away from Trump's rally to Jill Biden's
A House Republican leader is planning for an oversight hearing with the U.S. Secret Service after President Donald Trump was shot in the ear at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday evening.
Sunday morning the FBI identified Thomas Matthew Crooks as the gunman who opened fire at Trump's rally. The Secret Service reported that the shooter and one rally attendee are dead. Two spectators are critically injured following the shooting.
House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer, R-Kentucky, made the request for a briefing with the Secret Service and said he would call Kimberly Cheatle, the agency's director, to testify at a hearing.
NBC has pulled MSNBC’s Morning Joe off the air Monday morning in favor of continuing news coverage of the aftermath of the attempted assassination of President Donald Trump on Saturday, as the Republican National Convention (RNC) begins in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
CNN reported:
MSNBC will not air “Morning Joe,” its celebrated politics roundtable program, on Monday, opting to instead air continued breaking news coverage of the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump.
The progressive news network confirmed the decision to preempt its influential and top-rated morning show after a CNN inquiry Sunday evening. The network said the show will resume airing Tuesday.
And thus goes down the only substantive legal threat against Donald Trump -- for now. Judge Aileen Cannon has dismissed the entire indictment against Trump in the classified documents and obstruction case in Florida, ruling that Smith's appointment as special counsel was unconstitutional.
In an 93-page ruling, Cannon scolded the Department of Justice and the executive branch for bypassing Congress with the appointment of a non-confirmed prosecutor: Judge Aileen Cannon has dismissed the classified documents case against Donald Trump.
This is the sort of happy headline you see that makes you spit at your screen in stunned disbelief when you first read it.
REALLY?!
And it's not a joke or a Babylon Bee headline. It comes from no less august and impeccable source than Jake "The Slapper" Tapper. (X) Let's just step back for a second and try to imagine any of the overtly masculine senior staffers in the Biden White House slapping the Schlitz out of anyone. (Snip) Yeah...NO.
None a' dem guys will be slapping - less mind "beating" - anyone anytime soon, if ever, unless they swipe at the wife's Pomeranian with a frustrated fuzzy slipper
MILWAUKEE — An assassination attempt was made against Donald Trump after months of heated rhetoric aimed at the former president, including from President Biden, who a week ago said it was time to put his political rival “in a bull’s-eye.”
A day after a would-be assassin’s bullet grazed Mr. Trump, Democrats called for toning down the rhetoric of the divisive 2024 presidential election.
Republicans, preparing to gather this week to nominate Mr. Trump for president, angrily denounced the “both sides” argument of his staunchest opponents. Many of those opponents have vilified the former president as a “MAGA extremist,” an “evil” threat to democracy and the equivalent of Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler.
'Morning Joe' Pulled Off the Air in Wake
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As fans of MSNBC woke up on Monday morning, many no doubt waiting to be delivered the hottest takes from Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski, they were instead greeted by generic news desk coverage. That's because executives at the network made the call to pull "Morning Joe" off the air in the wake of the attempted assassination of Donald Trump. The reason why is telling.
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According to CNN, which reported the development, this wasn't a case of routine preemption. After all, "Morning Joe" has been left intact through essentially every other breaking news story since its inception. Instead, the decision came from a much darker place:
The Dog That Didn't Bark
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Sometimes, what doesn't happen is the most important thing.
In the wake of the assassination attempt on Trump, many in the mainstream media pointed a finger at...Trump...for raising the temperature of the political rhetoric. They quickly insinuated that Trump's followers, who have been labeled "domestic terrorists" and "white supremacists" would roam the streets looking for revenge.
ABC, CNN, and CBS each featured pundits or even reporters turning the heat up on Trump and his supporters, suggesting that they were responsible for the climate of violence due to Trump's rhetoric.
BlackRock Inc., the world’s largest money manager, has pulled an ad that briefly featured Thomas Crooks, the 20-year-old who shot and wounded former President Donald Trump at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania.
The company said Crooks was a student at Bethel Park High School and appeared in the 2022 ad with other unpaid teens.
“In 2022, we ran an ad featuring a teacher from Bethel Park High School, in which several unpaid students briefly appeared in the background, including Thomas Matthew Crooks,” the company said in a statement to Reuters Sunday, adding that the ad has been pulled.
MSNBC pulled its flagship AM program "Morning Joe" from airing on Monday in the wake of the assassination attempt on former President Trump. Viewers who tuned in expecting to see the staunchly anti-Trump program, hosted by Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski, were greeted instead by continued NBC News special reporting on the attempt on Trump's life on Saturday. A spokesperson said "Morning Joe" will resume airing on Tuesday.
According to a CNN report, a person familiar with the decision said it was made in part over fear that one of the show's many guests over a 4-hour broadcast "might make an inappropriate comment on live television
Please stop and spare a thought for those on the political left. Bill Maher has affirmed he was appalled by the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump but qualified it by adding others have been metaphorically hurt as well.
He opened his Saturday comedy show by stating, “I unequivocally denounce [the shooting], I don’t care what you think about that. Not funny. I’m sure that there will be jokes that people will make because they hate him so much that they wished it went he other way. Not for me.”
Maher then continued that Trump may be the political winner at the ballot box
The Biden Titanic
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Joe Biden’s escalating dementia and the long media-political conspiracy to hide his senility from the public are the least of the Democrats’ current problems. Biden’s track record as president may be more concerning than his cognitive decline. He has literally destroyed the U.S. border, deliberately allowing the entry of more than 10 million illegal aliens. His callous handlers’ agenda was to import abjectly poor constituencies in need of vast government services without regard for the current struggles of a battered American middle class and poor.
The federal judge overseeing Donald Trump's classified documents case in the Southern District of Florida dismissed the case Monday on constitutional grounds. "The Superseding Indictment is DISMISSED because Special Counsel Smith’s appointment violates the Appointments Clause of the United States Constitution," Judge Aileen Cannon wrote in her order granting Trump's motion to dismiss.
Judge Aileen Cannon has dismissed the classified documents case against Donald Trump.
In a ruling Monday, Cannon said the appointment of special counsel Jack Smith violated the Constitution.
“In the end, it seems the Executive’s growing comfort in appointing ‘regulatory’ special counsels in the more recent era has followed an ad hoc pattern with little judicial scrutiny,” Cannon wrote.
Biden’s FBI has announced that they believe the would-be assassin at former President Trump’s Pennsylvania rally on Saturday acted alone.
The statement comes despite the bureau’s inability to access data from the suspect’s cell phone, which has been sent to Quantico for further examination.
Kevin Rojek, FBI Special Agent in Charge Pittsburgh, said that the information currently available to the bureau suggests that there is no further public safety concern. However, he also noted that the investigation is still in its early stages, according to Fox News.
“We have not identified an ideology associated with the subject,
If you want to know just how dire the federal government’s fiscal situation is, consider the fact that interest on the national debt for the first time now tops every other spending category but one, according to the latest monthly report from the Treasury. This “achievement” has been brought to you by President Joe Biden.
According to the report, the federal government spent $682 billion in “net interest” payments so far this fiscal year (which ends Sept. 30). That’s more than all the money spent on “health” ($670 billion), national defense ($644 billion), and income security — which includes payments to the poor ($508 billion).
The nerve of Donald Trump, inciting that sc****g to shoot him by being literally Hitler, according to the regime media and the regime husk. And then his supporters shockingly dared to get mad about it – why aren’t they uniting around gun control, even though Trump was protected by guns and guns killed the sc****g, and even though guns are the only thing keeping Democrat-supported criminals and Democrat–supported tyranny at bay? But we know whose fault this is. And they know whose fault this is. And they’re going to lie about it anyway.
This was inevitable. Even if this wasn’t a specific plot,
David Frum Is Scum
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There’s little we can add to make the case that David Frum — the left’s favorite “Republican” — is a detestable human being that he doesn’t provide himself in his 1,500-word screed written in the immediate wake of the assassination attempt on Donald Trump.
In it, he blames Trump for the bullet that came within millimeters of killing him and the others that killed and injured attendees at Saturday’s rally, while completely and totally ignoring the viciousness and violence perpetrated by the left — not just against Trump, but against all Republicans, including the guy he used to work for, George W. Bush.
BUTLER, Pa. — The Secret Service blamed local police for failing to secure the rooftop from which gunman Thomas Matthew Crooks attempted to assassinate former President Donald Trump, insisting it was outside the perimeter the federal agency was tasked with protecting.
Instead, securing and patrolling the factory grounds of AGR International Inc. — located about 130 yards from the stage where Trump was speaking Saturday — was the responsibility of local Pennsylvania police, Secret Service representative Anthony Gugliemi said, according to the New York Times.
The Secret Service was only tasked with covering the grounds where Trump’s rally took place, with local police being recruited to assist with those efforts and
Old Man Who Threatened to Assault Trump
Says We Need to Tone Down the Rhetoric
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Says We Need to Tone Down the Rhetoric
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Joe Biden is so tired from his little trip to Michigan that he had to deliver his remarks on the failed assassination attempt on Donald Trump in two parts. Was this done to make it seem like this White House is busy? Were there even prepared remarks, given how this White House staff is demoralized, incompetent, and beyond third-rate? It wouldn’t shock me if the White House staff couldn’t muster to put anything on paper, as they’re filled with extreme animosity toward the former president and likely hoped Trump got killed in private.
CBS ran a news special on Sunday night after President Biden’s remarks in the Oval Office. CBS anchor Norah O’Donnell interviewed former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and dragged him right back to January 6 to discuss how rhetoric has grown hotter. Typically, CBS didn’t include itself in the atmosphere of overheated rhetoric. (X Video) O’DONNELL: You were speaker of the house on January 6th. We spoke that day. We were live on the air for more than ten hours or so, and I remember our conversation vividly, because you called on the president, to come forward, come before the cameras, and ask for the violence to stop. And you said,
Before I start, I will acknowledge that most people on either side of the political divide are rightly outraged and concerned about Saturday’s assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump. Unfortunately, there are plenty of left-leaning members of the chattering class who are doing their very best to spin the incident in a way that advances their agenda.
Shortly after footage of the shooting went viral on social media, leftists on various social media platforms began immediately pretending that the shooting was staged to help Trump’s campaign. In fact, there were so many floating this lie that the term “staged” was trending on X.
Watch: George Stephanopoulos Blames Trump
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George Stephanopoulos on Sunday reacted to the news that President Trump was shot in a failed assassination attempt, ignoring the divisiveness and violent rhetoric from the left and claiming, “President Trump and his supporters have contributed to this violent rhetoric as well.”
Chief Global Affairs Correspondent Martha Raddatz, in the clip below, discussed the attempted assassination with Stephanopoulos and said that no matter what, “you are going to hear conspiracy theories going forward.” Just like we did after the JFK assassination, right?
As The Gateway Pundit reported, President Trump was nearly assassinated last night during a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, by a 20-year-old Democrat donor named Thomas Matthew Crooks.
Trump immediately grabbed his neck after being shot while bleeding profusely from his ear. Video recordings of the scene also show Trump ducking down immediately after the initial gunshots were heard.
Secret Service agents promptly shielded Trump and guided him away from further harm. Despite being injured, a defiant Trump raised his fist and yelled “Fight!” multiple times toward the crowd.
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Some thoughts on the attempted assassination of former president Donald Trump. First, regarding the Secret Service. It is all well and good that the agents at the scene reacted as trained and instantly covered and shielded the former president with their bodies, willingly accepting the possibility of being mortally wounded in the interest of protecting Donald Trump. However, that type of response indicates an abject failure of the protective mission. It seems that only a providential head turn to the right saved Donald Trump’s life.
Donald Trump has given his first in-depth interview after miraculously surviving an assassination attempt at his Pennsylvania rally Saturday, insisting 'I'm supposed to be dead'.
Trump revealed how turning his head away from the crowd to look at a video screen may have saved his life at the Butler, Pennsylvania rally and how he wanted to keep talking after gunman Thomas Matthew Crooks struck him in the right ear.
He said Sunday: 'I rarely look away from the crowd. Had I not done that in that moment, well, we would not be talking today, would we?'
Bongino Discusses Secret Service Failure
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New details about the assassination attempt on President Trump are coming fast.
Earlier this morning former Secret Service Agent Dan Bongino gave his opinion about the Secret Service almost unfathomable drop in security protocol that allowed a gunman with a rifle to climb atop a building a mere 130 yards away from President Trump. Having some very specific insight into protection detail protocol, Bongino gives a unique perspective on what might have gone wrong.
In the aftermath of an assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump, foreign countries are coming out against the Biden Administration for provoking the attack. Russia accused the Biden White House of inciting violence by creating an “atmosphere” of opportunity for such an attack.
“We do not believe that the attempt to eliminate and assassinate Trump was organized by the current authorities,” Russian spokesman Dmitry Peskov said. “But the atmosphere around candidate Trump … provoked what America is confronting today.”
The Kremlin’s remarks echoed several Republicans who also blamed the Democratic Party for the attack.
Journalist Salena Zito was in the stands on Saturday because she was pre-scheduled to interview President Trump on the return trip to Bedminster, NJ. Obviously that interview never took place. However, today on the flight to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, President Trump talked exclusively to Mrs. Zito, who writes for the Washington Examiner. A reflective President Trump seemingly begins to absorb how fortunate he was to have the protection of God in a split second. Salena Zito – Former President Donald Trump has completely rewritten his convention speech in light of the assassination attempt against him on Saturday and will call on Thursday for a new effort at national unity.
A grateful and at times defiant Donald Trump told The Post Sunday he’s “supposed to be dead” as he recalled the harrowing moment a would-be assassin shot him at a Pennsylvania campaign rally.
The former president shared the “very surreal experience” that nearly ended his life during an interview aboard his private plane en route to Milwaukee for the GOP National Convention.
“The doctor at the hospital said he never saw anything like this, he called it a miracle,” said Trump, who was sporting a loose, large white bandage that covered his right ear. His staff insisted that no photos be taken.
“I’m not supposed to be here, I’m supposed to be dead,”
Former President Trump hit the golf course on Sunday, the day after surviving an assassination attempt, according to a video clip posted on social media that drew the attention of Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah.
He is reportedly staying at his golf club in Bedminster, N.J.
"The man has the energy of a dynamo," Lee posted on X in response to the clip.
"There’s a specific scientific term for this kind of (very unusual) man—you know, the kind of man that gets shot, gets up the next morning, and goes golfing," he added.
The leaders of the three authoritarian regimes in Latin America – Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua – issued rare messages of support to former President Donald Trump following the failed assassination attempt against him on Saturday evening.
The messages marked a stark departure from their usual belligerent language against the former president, (snip) Maduro repudiated the attack against Trump (snip) "I wish him a speedy recovery and may God bless the people of the United States and give them peace and tranquility.”
“We have been adversaries but I wish President Trump health and a long life, and I repudiate that attack,”
Insane New Video Shows Trump Shooter Moving
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We've been reporting on the witnesses and videos of the shooter on the roof at the Trump rally.
A witness told the BBC that he saw him for multiple minutes — he estimated five minutes — on the roof as people were pointing him out and telling the police. But now there's new video that corroborates what the witness said. It is also incredibly frustrating as people on the ground spot the guy, allegedly Thomas Crooks, crawling around on the roof with the rifle, and the people shout about it and point him out for almost a minute,
As President Joe Biden addressed the nation in a live speech on Sunday evening, attempting to lower the political temperature in the country after the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump, his speech was filled with gaffes and verbal mistakes.
“In America, we resolve our differences at the Battle Box,” Biden could be heard saying at one point. “Now, that’s how we do it, at the Battle Box. Not with bullets.” “The power to change America should always rest in the hands of the people, not in the hands of a would-be assassin,” Biden added. “You know the path forward through competing visions of the campaign should always be resolved
KDKA-TV [Butler, PA] - The Pennsylvania State Police have identified three victims who were shot during the assassination attempt of former President Donald Trump at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, on Saturday. The deceased victim was identified as Corey Comperatore, 50, of Sarver, Pa. The second victim, who was wounded in the shooting, has been identified as 57-year-old David Dutch, of New Kensington, Pa. [Snip] The third victim, [Snip] was identified as James Copenhaver, 74, of Moon Township, Pa., [Snip] Both wounded victims were "essentially the same as they were last night," which was in critical but stable condition, Allegheny General Hospital said Sunday evening.
Watch: 50 Cent Concert Displays ‘Get
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Rapper 50 Cent paid tribute to Donald Trump surviving an assassination attempt Saturday night — displaying a meme edit of his debut album cover with the former president’s head swapped with his own — during a concert in Boston, Massachusetts.
The stage graphic usually depicts the rapper from the cover of his Get Rich or Die Tryin record, but on Saturday, Trump’s head was superimposed onto the rapper’s body. The rapper also mentioned the assassination attempt on his X/Twitter account, saying, “Trump gets shot and now I’m trending.” The rapper, whose real name is Curtis Jackson, has some personal experience with assassination attempts.
It’s hard for me to convey just how angry I am at Joe Biden right now. He literally had the nerve to sit in the Oval Office to address Americans on Sunday night and pretend to be the adult in room by calling on everyone to “lower the temperature." It’s the third time since Saturday that Biden has made a public address to the nation, as he’s clearly attempting to politically navigate a situation that Democrat strategists believe has ended any hope of him winning in November.
He’s trying to rewrite history.
Not once in his speech did he acknowledge that Democrats have taken things
Dmitri Mehlhorn, the top political adviser to Democrat megadonor and LinkedIn cofounder Reid Hoffman, reportedly pushed “sympathetic journalists” to consider that the shooting of former President Donald Trump might have been “staged.”
In an email sent to “sympathetic journalists,” including Semafor, Mehlhorn wrote: …one “possibility — which feels horrific and alien and absurd in America, but is quite common globally — is that this ‘shooting’ was encouraged and maybe even staged so Trump could get the photos and benefit from the backlash. This is a classic Russian tactic, such as when Putin killed 300 civilians in 1999 and blamed it on terrorists