Former President Donald Trump was injured but survived an assassination attempt Saturday in which a gunman was shot dead and a Trump supporter was killed, at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania.
- The FBI confirmed early Sunday the identity of the gunman who shot former President Donald Trump as Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20, of Bethel Park, Pennsylvania.
- The House’s top investigator said he will demand answers from the Secret Service after former President Donald Trump was shot during a campaign rally Saturday.
- Former President Donald Trump’s campaign says the Republican National Convention will go on as scheduled following an assassination attempt on him Saturday.
- Former President Donald Trump said Sunday it was “God alone” who prevented his assassination and pledged to remain defiant “in the face of wickedness” as the Republican Party prepares to open its national convention in Milwaukee.
- American presidential politics has been punctuated by violence from its early days, from the infamous duel between then-Vice President Aaron Burr and former Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton to the assassinations of Presidents Lincoln, Garfield, McKinley and Kennedy, and attempts on a number of other presidents.
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