Trump agrees to sit for interview with FBI as it investigates shooting
Washington DC, US Reuters Former President Donald Trump said he would sit for an interview with the FBI, as the bureau continues to investigate what motivated 20-year-old Thomas Crooks to try and assassinate Trump at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania. “They’re coming in on Thursday to see me,” Trump, the Republican presidential candidate, said in […]
Trump offers dramatic account of assassination attempt, accepts Republican nomination
Last updated: 5:40pm (AEST) Milwaukee/Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, US Reuters Donald Trump described on Thursday how he narrowly survived an attempt on his life, telling a rapt audience at the Republican National Convention in his first speech since the attack that he was only there “by the grace of Almighty God”. “I heard a loud whizzing […]
Top Republicans in Congress call for Secret Service chief to step down
Washington DC, US Reuters Top Republicans in the US Congress called on Wednesday for the head of the Secret Service to resign after an assassination attempt wounded former President Donald Trump on Saturday, and the House launched a bipartisan probe into the security failures. House of Representatives Speaker Mike Johnson said his chamber would launch […]
We fact-checked some of the rumours spreading online about the Trump assassination attempt
Reuters Misinformation and conspiracy theories were spreading online after an assassination attempt on former US President Donald Trump at a campaign rally on Saturday. Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20, was alleged to have shot at the Republican presidential candidate from a rooftop during the rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, wounding Trump’s right ear. One spectator died and […]
Essay: Donald Trump and the gathering darkness threatening US politics
RICHARD HARGY, of Queen’s University Belfast, says – in an article first published on The Conversation – the Trump assassination attempt follows a disturbing trend in the US of extremists embarking on violent plots to silence their perceived opponents…
Sight-Seeing: God did not save Donald Trump
Did God save the former President, but not those who died instead? SHANE CLAIBORNE activist, author and co-director of Red Letter Christians, responds in an article first published on Religion News Service…
Suspect came within inches of killing Trump, but left few clues as to why
Bethel Park, Pennsylvania, US Reuters The portrait pieced together so far of the 20-year-old nursing home aide who allegedly tried to assassinate Donald Trump at an election rally reveals frustratingly little about why he would make such an attempt – or how he managed to come so close to killing the former president. The early […]
Updated: After assassination attempt, Trump and Biden seek calm, unity
Updated: 12:15pm (AEST) Bethel Park, Pennsylvania Reuters Donald Trump arrived on Sunday in Milwaukee, where he will be formally nominated as the Republican presidential candidate later this week after surviving an assassination attempt that aggravated an already bitter US political divide. President Joe Biden, a Democrat, ordered a review of how a 20-year-old man with […]
US faith leaders, politicians invoke God’s protection for Trump in wake of shooting
United States RNS Reactions from faith leaders and fellow politicians to Donald Trump’s narrow escape from an apparent assassin’s bullet called upon God’s protection for the former President and for the nation. “May God protect all who serve us,” wrote Albert Mohler, the president of Southern Baptist Seminary, on X after news broke Saturday evening […]
Trump rally shooting victim died shielding family from bullets
Reuters The person shot and killed at former President Donald Trump’s rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday was a 50-year-old volunteer firefighter who shielded his family to protect them as gunshots rang out, the state’s Governor Josh Shapiro said on Sunday. The victim was identified as Corey Comperatore, according to his family’s posting on Facebook. Republican […]