Trump targeted in Pennsylvania rally assassination attempt, attacker dead

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13 July 2024 at 6:49 pm·2-min read

US Republican candidate Donald Trump said a bullet "pierced" the upper part of his right ear during an assassination attempt at a campaign rally on Saturday. The former president, seen slapping his ear and ducking behind the podium, was escorted off stage by Secret Service agents after spotting blood on his face. The suspected gunman and a bystander are dead.

Donald Trump was hit in the ear in an apparent assassination attempt by a gunman at a campaign rally Saturday, in a chaotic and shocking incident that fueled tensions ahead of the US presidential election.

The 78-year-old former president was rushed off stage with blood streaked across his face after the shooting in Butler, Pennsylvania, while the gunman and a bystander were killed and two spectators critically injured.

The Republican candidate raised a defiant fist to the crowd as he was bundled away to safety and said afterward "I was shot with a bullet that pierced the upper part of my right ear."

President Joe Biden, who is set to face Trump in November's deeply polarized election, said the incident was "sick" and added that there was "no place in America for this kind of violence."

Biden later spoke to Trump, the White House said, in their first contact since a debate just over two weeks ago in which the president gave a disastrous performance

As multiple bangs ran out, Trump, wearing a red "Make America Great Again" cap, grimaced and clutched a hand to his ear, with blood visible on his ear and cheek.

He ducked to the floor as Secret Service agents swarmed onto the podium, surrounding him and escorting him roughly off the stage to a nearby vehicle.

The shooter has not yet been identified.

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