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<ul class="summary-list"><li>The <keyword id="20346186" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="Secret-Service" source="keywords">Secret Service</keyword> is under scrutiny after a would-be assassin got in close range of <keyword id="19918985" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="Donald-Trump" source="keywords">Donald Trump</keyword>.</li><li>After <keyword id="20347466" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="Ronald-Reagan" source="keywords">Ronald Reagan</keyword> was the target of an <keyword id="20039518" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="assassination-attempt" source="keywords">assassination attempt</keyword>, the agency faced a lesser reckoning.</li></ul>As a gunman fired shots at former President Donald Trump at a rally Saturday, nicking his right ear, US Secret Service agents instantly sprung into action. The agents surrounding Trump dove on top of him, covering his body to protect him from any more bullets. Another agent, his eye looking through the lens of a sniper rifle, shot the would-be assassin in the head, killing him. A major question remained: How did the Secret Service let a guy with a rifle <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/ex-secret-service-agents-how-trump-assassin-could-fire-shots-2024-7">get so close to Trump</a> in the first place? The last time a president or presidential candidate was the subject of a similar <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/reagan-secret-service-agent-says-trump-shooting-failure-for-agency-2024-7">assassination attempt</a> was Ronald Reagan. Back then, the Secret Service faced less of a reckoning. On March 30, 1981, John Hinckley Jr. got within a few feet of Reagan outside a Washington, DC, hotel where the president gave a speech to union representatives. Hinckley Jr. fired six times with his pistol. As Secret Service members shoved Reagan into his limousine, one bullet ricocheted off the side of the vehicle, went through the one-inch gap between the limo's body and open door, and penetrated Reagan's left side, breaking a rib and puncturing a lung, according to government records from the time. The Secret Service came under some scrutiny at that time, too. The US Senate and US House of Representatives <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://time.com/archive/6700383/protecting-the-president/">each held hearings</a>the following month to evaluate how well the agency did its job. But members of Congress mostly praised agents for their performance and mused on the nature of protecting politicians in open societies. Democratic Sen. Ted Kennedy <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.congress.gov/97/crecb/1981/11/12/GPO-CRECB-1981-pt21-1-2.pdf ">advocated for gun control legislation</a>. The Treasury Department, which housed the Secret Service at the time, prepared its own report. The 100-page document, completed in about five months, reviewed its own procedures and was full of praise for itself, writing that the agents protecting Reagan "reacted in precisely the manner required by their training and the applicable procedures," and recommending awards for the four agents who protected him. The report, prepared by Treasury Department General Counsel Peter J. Wallison, offered a few recommendations for the future, including better ways for the Secret Service to communicate with other federal agencies and having a paramedic travel with the presidential detail. "In many ways, that transfixing encounter with fate was an easy case: the gunman acted alone; on a weekday; with a low-caliber weapon; in Washington, D.C.; while the President was at the door of his limousine; within a mile or two of a fully equipped and staffed metropolitan hospital; above all, the President's wound was not mortal," the report read. "Anyone can imagine less favorable circumstances, and it is for these that Treasury and other agencies must be prepared." <h2>The Secret Service has been plagued by scandal</h2>Reagan was seriously injured in the <keyword id="19909929" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="shooting" source="keywords">shooting</keyword>, as were a Secret Service agent and DC police officer on the scene. <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/gun-control-advocate-james-brady-dies-2014-8">James Brady</a>, his press secretary, suffered the worst injuries, with a bullet to the head that caused lifelong neurological issues. On Saturday, <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/who-was-thomas-matthew-crooks-the-trump-rally-shooter-2024-7">Thomas Matthew Crooks</a> shot and killed <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/victim-trump-rally-shooting-corey-comperatore-shielded-family-from-gunfire-2024-7">Corey Comperatore</a>, an attendee of the Trump rally in Pennsylvania, and injured two other bystanders, even as he failed at his attempt to kill Trump himself. By 2024, the Secret Service's longstanding reputation as an elite force has been damaged by controversies in recent years. Members of the agency <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/secret-service-messages-deleted-three-weeks-after-jan-6-attack-2022-7">deleted text messages</a> from January 6, 2021, making them unavailable for a congressional panel investigating the pro-Trump insurrection attempt. Earlier this year, an agent was <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://nypost.com/2024/04/30/us-news/kamala-harris-secret-service-agent-had-screws-loose-ex-colleague/">removed from Vice President Kamala Harris's detail</a> after reportedly assaulting a superior officer. In 2022, two agents were placed on leave after <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/two-secret-service-agents-seoul-incident/">reportedly getting into a fight with a cab driver</a> in Seoul. A 2015 House panel report faulted the Secret Service for numerous security breaches, which more recent agency leaders have tried to clean up. <div type="image" title="donald trump after being shot" height="536" width="715" msid="111792212" hostid="261"></div>Already, congressional oversight is more intense after the Trump shooting than it was after the Reagan shooting. Six committees have demanded answers from the Secret Service, <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.politico.com/newsletters/inside-congress/2024/07/15/trump-shooting-probes-sweep-capitol-hill-00168451">according to Politico</a>: the House Oversight Committee, House Judiciary Committee, House Homeland Security Committee, House Intelligence Committee, Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, and Senate Judiciary Committee. Members of each committee received briefings from law enforcement Monday or were scheduled to receive them Tuesday, Politico reported. Kimberly Cheatle, the director of the Secret Service, is scheduled to testify in front of the House Oversight Committee on July 22. Some members of Congress are considering whether to create an independent commission to examine the Trump shooting in the same mold as the Warren Commission that investigated the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/15/us/politics/house-inquiries-trump-assassination-attempt.html">according to The New York Times</a>. The Department of Homeland Security — which took over control of the Secret Service from the Treasury Department when it was created in 2003 — has already announced a beefed-up security detail for Trump. President Joe Biden also ordered a Secret Service detail for independent presidential candidate <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-robert-kennedy-jr-leaked-call-bullet-mosquito-2024-7">Robert F. Kennedy Jr.</a>, whose father was killed in a political assassination in 1968 and whose previous requests for Secret Service protection had been denied. <h2>The Reagan assassination attempt investigations focused on Hinckley</h2>The main difference in the government agency reactions in 1981 compared to now is that Reagan's would-be killer was still alive. Hinckley Jr. was arrested immediately. His motives were readily apparent: He wanted to impress actor Jodie Foster by killing a US president. At trial, a jury found him not guilty, agreeing with his insanity defense. Hinckley Jr. was placed in a mental health institution and ultimately released in 2016. The FBI is investigating the Trump shooting, and it isn't clear what actions they'll ultimately take. The motive of Crooks, a registered Republican and <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-shooting-suspect-rejected-from-school-rifle-team-ex-classmate-2024-7">reported gun enthusiast</a>, is much less evident. Representatives for the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security did not respond to Business Insider's requests for comment on whether they'd publish reports about the Trump shooting. <div type="image" title="Police and Secret Service diving to protect then-president Ronald Reagan during the attempted assassination in 1981." height="1683" width="2500" msid="111792214" hostid="261"></div>The FBI investigation into Hinckley Jr. was overseen by then-Assistant Attorney General <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1981/04/05/080499.html?pageNumber=30">Rudy Giuliani</a>. That investigation focused on building the criminal case against Hinckley Jr. A <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://vault.fbi.gov/president-ronald-reagan-assassination-attempt">1,000-page report</a> — completed just two months after the Reagan shooting — featured interviews with eyewitnesses, medical records, forensic evidence, and a deep dive into Hinckley's past. In the immediate aftermath of the shooting, members of Congress and the media focused on an earlier incident with Hinckley. He was arrested in Nashville the prior October on weapons charges, possessing guns and handcuffs, when then-President Jimmy Carter visited the city. Journalists immediately found records related to the arrest, which <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1981/03/31/064339.html?pageNumber=1">took up prominent space on the front page of The New York Times</a> a day after the shooting. But Hinckley <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.nytimes.com/1981/04/03/us/fbi-notice-on-hinckley-arrest-at-issue.html">hadn't been on the Secret Service's internal watchlist</a>, and members of Congress <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.congress.gov/bound-congressional-record/1981/04/01/127/house-section/article/5948-5975?q=%7B%22search%22%3A%22John+Hinckley+Jr.%22%7D&amp;s=6&amp;r=37">demanded to know</a> why the FBI didn't inform the Secret Service about the earlier arrest. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms played a role in the investigation, too, tracing the purchase of Hinckley's handgun to a pawnshop in Dallas. The Justice Department also <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.justice.gov/file/149506/dl?inline">prepared a memorandum on presidential succession</a> after then-Secretary of State Alexander Haig falsely claimed he was "in charge" at the White House until then-Vice President George HW Bush arrived (the Speaker of the House and President Pro Tempore of the Senate were in line before him). Congress later passed two significant laws following the shooting. After Hinckley's acquittal, Reagan signed a law in 1984 restricting the use of the insanity defense — shifting the burden from prosecution to the defense in criminal cases. In 1993, with support from Brady and his family, President Bill Clinton signed into law the Brady Act, which regulated handgun purchases, after versions of the law floated through Congress in the aftermath of the shooting. The Reagan shooting took place in a period of history when attempted and successful assassinations were not uncommon. John Lennon was killed just a few months earlier, and Pope John Paul II was shot a couple of months later. In the Treasury Department report, Wallison wrote that violence struck at the heart of democracy itself. "What is already clear is that a democratic system which values an orderly transfer of authority through free elections cannot allow the results of these processes to be redirected or reversed by violence," he wrote. Correction: July 24, 2024 — An earlier version of this story misstated how long it took for the Treasury Department to complete its report into the attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan in 1981. It took five months, not less than one.

The public is outraged the Secret Service appeared to allow a shooter a clear shot of Trump. After Reagan was shot, the agency was widely praised.

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Elon Musk is joining Donald Trump for a rally in Pennsylvania.</li><li>It will take place at the same location where a gunman nearly assassinated Trump in July.</li></ul>Donald Trump has a new headliner: <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk">Elon Musk</a>.The billionaire owner of some of the world's most prominent companies confirmed on Saturday in a post on X that he would speak at the former president's high-profile rally in Butler, Pennsylvania — the same place <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-butler-pennsylvania-rally-secret-service-2024-7">Trump was nearly assassinated</a> in July.In a press release from the Trump campaign, Musk is listed as an attendee just after Trump's immediate family but before his running mate, JD Vance, in what is perhaps a nod to how important the campaign views Musk's presence at the event.The rally is set to take place at the same location, the Butler Farm Show Grounds, where a gunman managed to graze Trump in the ear in what was easily the most dramatic moment of a historic presidential campaign season.Immediately after the shooting, <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-endorses-trump-after-pennsylvania-rally-incident-2024-7">Musk officially endorsed Trump</a>. He has been a vocal supporter since, mostly through posts on X, applauding the former president and critiquing his Democratic opponent, <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-kamala-harris-exceeded-expectations-debate-versus-trump-2024-9">Vice President Kamala Harris</a>, on a nearly daily basis.<div type="image" title="Elon Musk and donald Trump sit at a table" height="2200" width="3300" msid="113971798" hostid="261" sizebytes="236978"></div>But <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-donald-trump-feud-relationship-timeline-2022-7">Musk and Trump haven't always been so chummy</a>. In 2015, Musk said it would be <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-political-beliefs-public-stances-timeline-republican-desantis-2022-6">"a bit embarrassing"</a> if Trump secured the Republican presidential nomination. And in 2016, he said <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-donald-trump-presidency-2016-11">Trump was "not the right guy"</a> for the presidency. As president-elect in late 2016, Trump announced <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-ceo-elon-musk-uber-travis-kalanick-join-donald-trump-strategic-policy-forum-economic-team-2016-12">Musk would join his economic advisory</a> board, but Musk would later cut ties with the administration over disagreements on climate change policies.The two found some common ground in 2020 while opposing COVID-19 regulations, but their feud intensified in July of 2022. At a Trump rally, Trump called Musk a "bullshit artist," after which Musk suggested <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-says-trump-hang-hat-sail-into-sunset-2022-7">Trump should not run</a> for president again. Trump retaliated, saying Musk would be "worthless" without government subsidies and that Trump previously could have <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-elon-musk-beg-for-help-online-feud-esclates-2022-7">made Musk beg</a> on his knees for government support.Despite their on-again-off-again relationship, Musk has been fairly consistent in supporting Republican causes. <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/musk-donated-million-ron-desantis-changed-tack-bet-on-trump-2024-10">Musk donated millions to conservative campaigns</a> over the years, including at least $10 million to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who competed against Trump for the GOP nomination. <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-support-ron-desantis-president-2024-2022-11">Musk endorsed DeSantis</a> and interviewed him live on X as he launched his campaign, though the launch was <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-reaction-to-desantis-twitter-spaces-announcement-2024-gop-primary-2023-5">riddled with glitches and mocked by Trump</a> ruthlessly.The relationship between the two has now completely changed. Musk is now one of the president's most prominent supporters. Musk has funded a <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-trump-donation-super-pac-report-2024-7">pro-Trump super PAC</a>, which has donated millions to Republican races and launched <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-trump-america-pac-targets-young-men-vote-2024-9">ads touting Trump</a> as the only option to "save America."And in August, <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-wants-elon-musk-on-his-cabinet-2024-8">Trump said he would offer Musk</a> a cabinet position, calling him a "brilliant guy." Musk said he'd accept in a post on X, imagining himself in charge of "government efficiency."

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<ul class="summary-list"><li>On Sunday, a suspect was apprehended after an apparent assassination attempt on Donald Trump.</li><li>It appeared to be the second attempt in two months on the former president's life.</li><li></li><li>Here's what we know about the shooting suspect, who is in law-enforcement custody.</li></ul>A suspect was taken into custody Sunday and charged Monday after what the FBI is investigating as an <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-shots-fired-florida-golf-course-2024-9">attempted assassination</a> on former President Donald Trump while he played golf in <keyword id="23182209" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="West-Palm-Beach" source="keywords">West Palm Beach</keyword>, Florida. Authorities identified Ryan Wesley Routh, a 58-year-old man with ties to both Hawaii and North Carolina, as the man arrested in connection with the incident. No injuries were reported during Sunday's incident, and Routh now faces federal charges. Here's what we know about Routh and the incident so far. <h2 style="font-family: LabGrotesque, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 37.5px; margin-top: 1.875rem; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: 1.875rem;">The <keyword id="20346186" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="Secret-Service" source="keywords" meta.keywordsubtype="org" meta.entityname="Secret Service" meta.hostid="83" meta.entityid="Secret Service">Secret Service</keyword> opened fire at a gunman</h2>Law-enforcement officials said a Secret Service agent spotted a rifle barrel sticking through a chain-link fence in the bushes near where Trump was playing golf Sunday at his course in West Palm Beach, prompting the Secret Service to open fire. "We are not sure right now if the individual was able to take a shot at our agents, but for sure, our agents were able to engage," a Secret Service representative said at a press conference shortly after the incident. Palm Beach County Sheriff Ric Bradshaw, who led the press conference, estimated that Trump was 300 to 500 yards away when the Secret Service agent spotted the rifle barrel. According to a criminal complaint, Routh fled the scene after the Secret Service opened fire. <h2 style="font-family: LabGrotesque, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 37.5px; margin-top: 1.875rem; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: 1.875rem; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Routh was identified by a witness and detained</h2>Bradshaw said a witness helped authorities identify the suspect using his vehicle. "Fortunately," he said, "we were able to locate a witness that came to us and said, 'Hey, I saw the guy running out of the bushes — he jumped into a black Nissan, and I took a picture of the vehicle and the tag,' which was great." Bradshaw said law enforcement used information from the witness to pull over the vehicle on the I-95 freeway in Martin County, north of West Palm Beach, and detain its driver. He said the witness later identified the driver as the person he had seen running from the bushes at the golf course. <h2 style="font-family: LabGrotesque, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 37.5px; margin-top: 1.875rem; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: 1.875rem; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">A rifle with a scope was found at the scene</h2>According to a criminal complaint, location data from a cellphone connected to Routh suggests he had been in the area near the golf course for roughly 12 hours before the apparent assassination attempt. Police who searched the area around the fence found an SKS-style rifle with a scope and two bags tied to the fence, according to the criminal complaint. The complaint said the serial number on the gun had been partially damaged. Authorities on Sunday said the bags contained ceramic tile and that officials also found a GoPro camera at the scene. Routh was held Sunday and appeared in court on Monday, where he was charged with possession of a firearm by a prohibited person and possession of a firearm with an obliterated serial number, both felony charges. Neither charge makes mention of an assassination attempt, though further charges may be pending. He is due to be arraigned on the charges later this month. <h2 style="font-family: LabGrotesque, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 37.5px; margin-top: 1.875rem; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: 1.875rem; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Routh was reportedly convicted on a weapons charge</h2>The Associated Press, citing North Carolina government records, reported that Routh was convicted in 2002 of possessing a weapon of mass destruction. The AP said the records didn't provide further details but separately noted that a 2002 story from the <a target="_blank" class="Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement" href="https://greensboro.com/article_3006b4f9-9370-5b08-a54e-46c87faf6cbe.html">News &amp; Record</a> newspaper in Greensboro, North Carolina, reported that a 36-year-old named Ryan Routh had been arrested after a three-hour standoff with law enforcement in which he was accused of barricading himself inside a roofing business following a traffic stop. He faced charges including possessing a weapon of mass destruction, which the News &amp; Record said was referring to a machine gun. <h2 style="font-family: LabGrotesque, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 37.5px; margin-top: 1.875rem; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: 1.875rem; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">He once seemed willing to die in the Ukraine war</h2><a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/15/us/politics/trump-shooting-suspect-routh.html">The New York Times</a> reported Routh had expressed a desire on social media to die in battle in <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/putins-threatening-the-west-with-war-its-not-the-first-time-2024-9">Ukraine's war against Russia</a>. His bio on Signal, an encrypted messaging platform, read in part, "Civilians must change this war and prevent future wars," the Times reported. The former construction worker talked to the outlet in 2023 for a story about Americans traveling to Ukraine to aid in the war effort. The Times said he had no military experience but said he'd traveled to Ukraine and wanted to recruit Afghan soldiers to fight Russia. <h2 style="font-family: LabGrotesque, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 37.5px; margin-top: 1.875rem; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: 1.875rem; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Routh has supported politicians on both sides of the aisle — including Trump</h2>Routh wrote in a self-published book last year that he had previously voted for Trump but then reversed his support, <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://apnews.com/article/trump-assassination-attempt-suspect-ukraine-f76ed09f256f6bd21727a10901d92af7?utm_campaign=TrueAnthem&amp;utm_medium=AP&amp;utm_source=Twitter">The Associated Press reported</a>. According to the AP, in the book, titled "Ukraine's Unwinnable War," Routh wrote of Iran, "You are free to assassinate Trump." Routh also criticized the former president for the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol and for his withdrawal from the Iran nuclear accord. The AP reported Routh had supported various politicians online, including Bernie Sanders, Tulsi Gabbard, Nikki Haley — and most recently Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. Correction: September 16, 2024 — An earlier version of this story misidentified the gun recovered at the scene. Authorities ultimately identified it as an SKS-style rifle. The Palm Beach County sheriff had earlier identified it as an AK-47-style rifle, not as an AK-47. The story also misidentified which official said, "For sure, our agents were able to engage." It was a Secret Service official, not the county sheriff. The story was separately updated with new information, including the timing of when the suspect is scheduled to be arraigned on the charges.

What we know about Ryan Wesley Routh, the suspect in the apparent assassination attempt against Donald Trump

<ul class="summary-list"><li>The <keyword id="19909525" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="FBI" source="keywords" meta.keywordsubtype="org" meta.entityname="FBI" meta.hostid="261" meta.entityid="FBI">FBI</keyword> confirmed on Friday that <keyword id="6354484" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="Donald-trump" source="Orion">Donald Trump</keyword>'s ear was hit by a bullet or a bullet fragment.</li><li>The FBI's director previously said there's "some question" whether Trump was hit by a bullet or shrapnel.</li></ul>In the aftermath of the <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-butler-pennsylvania-rally-secret-service-2024-7">assassination attempt</a> on <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/reagan-secret-service-agent-says-trump-shooting-failure-for-agency-2024-7">Donald Trump</a> earlier this month, the former president said in a <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-speaks-out-after-shooting-thanks-secret-service-condolences-victim-2024-7">post on his Truth Social</a> platform that he was "shot with a bullet that pierced the upper part of my right ear."The FBI confirmed Trump's assertions Friday evening, saying that the shooter who aimed his rifle at the former president had indeed hit his ear."What struck former President Trump in the ear was a bullet, whether whole or fragmented into smaller pieces, fired from the deceased subject's rifle," the FBI said in a Friday statement, per multiple news outlets.Prior to Friday, <keyword id="1715054" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="FBI-director" source="Orion">FBI Director</keyword> <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/fbi-director-somewhat-insane-to-suggest-hes-biased-against-conservatives-2023-7">Christopher Wray</a> cast some doubt when he said before the Republican-led House Judiciary Committee that it was not clear whether Trump was struck by a bullet or shrapnel at Trump's <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-not-going-to-become-nice-shooting-didnt-change-him-2024-7">July 13 rally</a> in Butler, Pennsylvania."I think, with respect to former President Trump, there's some question about whether or not it's a bullet or shrapnel that, you know, hit his ear," Wray said on Wednesday.His comment was in response to a question from the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), who asked where the eight shots fired by gunman <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/who-was-thomas-matthew-crooks-the-trump-rally-shooter-2024-7">Thomas Matthew Crooks</a> went.Wray added, "So it's conceivable, although as I sit here right now I don't know whether that bullet, in addition to, you know, causing the grazing, could have also landed somewhere else. But I believe we've accounted for all of the shots in the cartridges."Jordan followed up, "It's my understanding that the very first one was the one that hit the president. The very first shot. Or is that not accurate?""As I sit here right now, I don't know the answer to that. I believe we know the answer to that. I just don't have it in front of me," Wray responded.The gunman — who was shot dead by the Secret Service —opened fire from a rooftop just minutes into Trump's July 13 rally, leaving the <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-shot-dead-if-he-did-not-tilt-head-2024-7">former president's ear bloodied</a>, one attendee dead, and two others injured.When asked for comment Thursday regarding Wray's testimony about there being a question of whether Trump was hit by a bullet or shrapnel, Trump campaign spokesman Steven Cheung told Business Insider: "Anyone who believes this conspiracy bullshit is either mentally deficient or willfully peddling falsehoods for political reasons."Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, appointed Wray as FBI director in 2017.The FBI told BI in a statement that since the day of the attack the agency "has been consistent and clear that the shooting was an attempted assassination of former President Trump which resulted in his injury, as well as the death of a heroic father and the injuries of several other victims.""FBI Director Wray provided extensive congressional testimony on Wednesday about the FBI's investigation. This was a heinous attack and the FBI is devoting enormous resources to learn everything possible about the shooter and what led to his act of violence. The FBI's Shooting Reconstruction Team continues to examine evidence from the scene, including bullet fragments, and the investigation remains ongoing," the agency said.Meanwhile, firearms expert Peter Diaczuk told BI that whether a bullet or shrapnel struck Trump, both would have done a similar amount of damage to his ear and that the former president would not have known the difference."They're both going to rip the ear apart. They're both passing by at a relatively high rate of speed," said Diaczuk, a professor of forensic science at New York's John Jay College of Criminal Justice.Additionally, Diaczuk told BI that it's most likely that it was, in fact, a bullet that hit Trump's ear instead of shrapnel.In order for a bullet to break up and cause a fragment, "it's got to hit something substantial to disrupt its integrity," Diaczuk explained."And from what I saw — clearly, I don't have as much information as people who have been to the scene looking at things — but from what I saw the day of and the day after, was that it was a clear line of sight between the sniper's nest and the podium," said Diaczuk. "And if that's the case, then there's nothing to cause the breakup of a bullet.""I don't see any indication of an intervening object to cause the bullet to fragment," he said.Republican Texas Rep. <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-assassination-attempt-bullet-quarter-of-an-inch-ronny-jackson-2024-7">Ronny Jackson</a>, who served as Trump's White House doctor, said in a previously released note that the former president "sustained a gunshot wound" that caused "significant bleeding" and "marked swelling" of his entire upper ear."The bullet passed, coming less than a quarter of an inch from entering his head, and struck the top of his right ear," the memo read. "The bullet track produced a 2 cm wide wound that extended down from the cartilaginous surface of the ear."Update July 26, 2024: This story was updated to include a statement from the FBI that a "bullet, whether whole or fragmented into smaller pieces," hit Trump's ear.

FBI confirms that a bullet or bullet fragment hit Trump during assassination attempt

<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="22406325" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="Trump-shooting" source="keywords">Trump shooting</keyword> was Secret Service's worst failure in decades, director says.</li><li>Secret Service head <keyword id="22406147" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="Kimberly-Cheatle" source="keywords">Kimberly Cheatle</keyword> declined to answer specific questions about what went wrong.</li><li>She said an investigation would take 60 days.</li></ul>The director of the US Secret Service admitted in a <keyword id="20568525" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="House-of-Representatives" source="keywords">House of Representatives</keyword> committee hearing Monday that the <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-shooting-assassination-attempt-secret-service-past-scandals-2024-7">shooting of former President Donald Trump</a> was a disaster for the agency. "The assassination attempt of former President Trump on July 13th is the most significant operational failure of the Secret Service in decades," Kimberly Cheatle said Monday morning. Cheatle had been called to testify before the House's Oversight and Accountability Committee to <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/secret-service-scrutiny-shooting-donald-trump-pennsylvania-rally-2024-7">explain</a> how <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/ex-secret-service-agents-how-trump-assassin-could-fire-shots-2024-7">the Secret Service allowed Thomas Matthew Crooks to get close enough to Trump</a> at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, nine days ago to shoot at him. The event had been the first time a president or former president was shot since <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-shooting-reagan-assassination-attempt-parallels-secret-service-2024-7">John Hinckley Jr. shot and injured Ronald Reagan in 1981</a>, two months into his first term. <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/thomas-crooks-academic-transcript-good-grades-chewing-gum-2024-7">Crooks</a>, 20, climbed onto the rooftop of a building 400 feet away from where Trump stood at the rally podium. With an AR-15, he injured Trump's ear, killed attendee Corey Comperatore, and injured two others before a Secret Service countersniper killed him. At the public hearing Monday, Cheatle said she would "move Heaven and Earth" to ensure a shooting like that never happened again, but she offered few answers about the Secret Service's failure. Cheatle declined to answer substantive questions, citing an "ongoing investigation" from the FBI as well as the Secret Service. Cheatle said the agency would complete its own investigation "within 60 days." Neither the FBI nor the Secret Service have said whether they would make the investigation results public, as the agencies did in the aftermath of the Reagan shooting. The FBI completed and made public its 1,000-page into the Reagan shooting in two months, while the Treasury Department, which oversaw the Secret Service at the time, took five months to complete and publish its own report. Cheatle said Monday that her agency was "still looking into the advance process" plan that the Secret Service used to determine why the roof wasn't properly secured ahead of the rally, and that no employees have been disciplined. She said she had spoken to the countersniper who killed Crooks — with one shot — along with other agency members at Trump's rally, but refused to disclose the content of their conversations. According to Cheatle, Crooks was recognized earlier in the day as a "suspicious" person but not a "threat." Had he been identified as a threat, she said, the rally would have been shut down. Crooks was reportedly on the rooftop for 20 minutes before shooting at Trump. The Secret Service has been criticized for previously denying Trump additional protection at events. At the Pennsylvania rally, however, Cheatle said, "there were no assets denied." Trump has also been the subject of an <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/political-assassinations-the-rise-symptom-new-era-global-chaos-trump-2024-7">Iranian assassination plot</a>, according to national security officials. Correction: July 24, 2024 — An earlier version of this story misstated how long it took for the Treasury Department to complete its report into the attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan in 1981. It took five months, not less than one.

Secret Service director admits Trump shooting was agency's 'most significant failure' in decades

<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="6354484" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="donald-trump" source="Orion">Donald Trump</keyword> appears to have called the wife of his supporter who was killed at Saturday’s rally.</li><li>The supporter, <keyword id="22410307" type="General" weightage="100" keywordseo="Corey-Comperatore" source="keywords">Corey Comperatore</keyword>, was said to have died shielding his family during an <keyword id="20039518" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="assassination-attempt" source="keywords">assassination attempt</keyword> on Trump.</li><li>In an interview published Monday, Helen Comperatore said <keyword id="19919748" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="joe-biden" source="keywords">Joe Biden</keyword> had called her but Trump had not.</li></ul>Former President Donald Trump appears to have called the widow of the man who was killed in the attempt to assassinate him. Helen Comperatore said in a social-media post on Tuesday that she had talked to Trump earlier that day, according to The New York Times. On Monday, the New York Post published an interview in which she said President Joe Biden had called her but Trump had not. Corey Comperatore, a 50-year-old former fire chief from Pennsylvania, was a supporter of Trump and attended the rally with his wife and daughters. His family said he was shot while shielding them from the gunfire. In an interview with <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://nypost.com/2024/07/15/us-news/corey-comperatores-widow-reveals-his-final-words-before-he-was-killed-at-trump-rally/?utm_source=sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=news_alert&amp;utm_content=20240715?&amp;utm_source=sailthru&amp;lctg=645a5727e4688b7b57029c53&amp;utm_term=NYP%20-%20News%20Alerts">The New York Post</a> that was published Monday at 4:44 p.m. ET, his wife, Helen Comperatore, said her husband was her "hero" and that the last thing he said to them was "get down!" Helen Comperatore told the outlet that, at that point, she had not heard from Trump. The former president said he was shot <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/who-was-thomas-matthew-crooks-the-trump-rally-shooter-2024-7">during the rally</a>; two others were shot and critically wounded. Representatives for the Trump campaign, the White House, and the Biden campaign did not immediately respond to requests for comment from Business Insider. BI attempted to reach Helen Comperatore through email. "He was very kind and said he would continue to call me in the days and weeks ahead," she said of Trump on social media, according to The Times. BI was unable to verify Comperatore’s comments; her Facebook profile was most recently set to private. In his first statement after the shooting on Saturday, Trump wrote on Truth Social: "I want to thank The United States Secret Service, and all of Law Enforcement, for their rapid response on the shooting that just took place in Butler, Pennsylvania. Most importantly, I want to extend my condolences to the family of the person at the Rally who was killed, and also to the family of another person that was badly injured." In another post on Sunday, Trump added, "Our love goes out to the other victims and their families. We pray for the recovery of those who were wounded, and hold in our hearts the memory of the citizen who was so horribly killed." Trump's team has also shared a link to a <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://x.com/AlinaHabba/status/1812449354508128726">GoFundMe</a> that was "authorized" by the former president and is raising funds that will go towards the victims' families. The page had accrued more than $4.5 million in donations as of Monday evening. On Sunday, Trump arrived in Milwaukee for the Republican National Committee convention, which kicked off on Monday. Trump was formally nominated as the GOP candidate for president and announced he had selected <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/why-trump-selected-jd-dance-running-mate-vice-president-2024-7">Sen. JD Vance</a> of Ohio as his vice presidential running mate. Comperatore told the Post her family did receive a call from Biden but that she did not speak with him. "I didn't talk to Biden. I didn't want to talk to him," she said. "My husband was a devout Republican, and he would not have wanted me to talk to him." While some Republicans, including <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://x.com/JDVance1/status/1812280973628965109">Vance</a>, blamed Biden's rhetoric for the attempted assassination of Trump, the FBI has not identified a motive for the shooting. Comperatore said she did not think Biden was responsible for her husband's death. She told the Post she planned to vote for Trump but was not very involved in politics. "I don't have any ill-will towards Joe Biden," she said, adding, "He didn't do anything to my husband. A 20-year-old despicable kid did." July 16, 2024: This story was updated to include reporting by The New York Times that Helen Comperatore said she had talked to Donald Trump on Tuesday and that Corey Comperatore's sister said the family had also spoken with representatives of the Trump campaign on Monday night.

The widow of the Trump supporter who died during the assassination attempt reportedly says she talked to Trump on Tuesday

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Ali Abbasi's film 'The Apprentice' faced backlash from Donald Trump after its Cannes debut.</li><li>The film follows Trump's rise as a real estate tycoon in New York City.</li></ul>Iranian-Danish filmmaker Ali Abbasi is no stranger to challenging material.His directorial debut, the 2016 horror "Shelley," follows a surrogacy gone horribly wrong. With 2018's "Border," he made a gritty modern-day fairy tale centered on the unique life of a customs officer. Then, in 2022, he found acclaim with "Holy Spider," which follows a female journalist investigating a serial killer in Iran.Now Abbasi pushes the envelope further with his first English-language film, "The Apprentice," an examination of how Donald Trump (Sebastian Stan) went from being an unknown to a bombastic New York City real-estate tycoon under the tutelage of lawyer Roy Cohn (Jeremy Strong).Both Stan, Strong, and Maria Bakalova as Ivana Trump deliver impressive performances as three people who, in different ways, have a hunger for power.However, examining Trump can catch the ire of the former president, especially when you portray him in a movie as popping weight-loss pills like candy, having scalp reduction surgery, and sexually assaulting his first wife, Ivana, based on an allegation she made in <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/ex-wife-donald-trump-made-me-feel-violated-during-sex">a deposition during her 1990 divorce of Trump</a> (Ivana <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.politico.com/story/2015/07/ivana-trump-denies-accusing-donald-trump-rape-daily-beast-120721">recanted the testimony in 2015</a>. Trump denied the allegation.)After the movie premiered at this year's Cannes Film Festival in May, Abbasi and its <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/the-apprentice-trump-movie-gabriel-sherman-dan-snyder-interview-2024-10">screenwriter, Gabriel Sherman,</a> received a cease-and-desist letter from Trump's lawyers. He told Business Insider he never planned to make the letter public, but it somehow leaked to the press. The news halted any potential deals he had with streamers and major distributors, Abbasi said. Eventually, it was bought by Briarcliff Entertainment, known for releasing Michael Moore's 2018 documentary "Fahrenheit 11/9," centered on the 2016 presidential election and Trump's presidency.Business Insider spoke to Abbasi over Zoom about the challenges of finding a distributor for the movie, what may happen in Hollywood if Trump is back in office, and if Abbasi thinks Trump will accept the results of the presidential election.<div type="image" title="Jeremy Strong and Sebastian Stan walking a dog" height="1000" width="1500" msid="114155805" hostid="261" sizebytes="106454"></div>After the interview was conducted, Business Insider reached out to Trump for comment on Abbasi's statements below. A spokesperson for the former president slammed the movie."The filmmakers now readily admit they fabricated scenes and created fake stories to fit some deranged narrative about President Trump that is completely untrue," Trump communications director Steven Cheung said Friday. "This garbage is pure fiction, which sensationalizes lies that have been long debunked.""As with the illegal Kamala witch-hunts," the statement continued, referencing Trump's presidential opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris, "this is election interference by Hollywood elites right before November, who know that President Trump will retake the White House and beat their candidate of choice because nothing they have done has worked.""This 'film' is pure malicious defamation, should never see the light of day, and doesn't even deserve a place in the straight-to-DVD section of a bargain bin at a soon-to-be-closed discount movie store," the statement concluded. "It belongs in a dumpster fire."You've been working on getting the movie made since 2018. I'm sure during that time, those close to you have wondered, "Why are you doing this?" So, what made you want to see this through?This is not a project you get a lot of encouragement from your friends. Like, "Do it! Do a Donald Trump movie!" But frankly, my motivation was that it is not a Donald Trump movie. It is an excuse to talk about other interesting stuff. It's an excuse to talk about the American power and legal system. The way you can find loopholes in it and how through this transformative relationship with Roy taught Donald to create his own reality and use the media.And I feel it's art imitating life in what unfolded for you. In the movie, we watch how relationships and side deals make Trump a real estate tycoon. In real life, after the movie was screened at Cannes, seemingly relationships and side deals made it difficult<a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/inside-the-fight-to-release-the-apprentice"> for the movie to initially find a streamer or mainstream distributor</a>. That must have been wild to witness.I would have said it's hilarious. The only thing is it wasn't hilarious for me. But from the outside looking in, it was a crazy situation. They were using a page from Roy Cohn's playbook against us. You show us in the movie that Cohn's main weapon is to attack, attack, attack, and that may have been exactly what Trump did once the movie premiered. And whoever his advisors are, they know a lot about how this industry works. The timing couldn't have been better for him and worse for us. The cease-and-desist letter came out just at the moment when we were trying to signal to the industry that this is a regular movie. It may be political, but it's not that.We got a really good reception in Cannes. People were praising the movie. I remember some of the studios were coming with their legal teams and taking it very seriously to acquire the movie. And then that letter came. [Laughs.] What was really interesting is the letter was sent to me and Gabe. Usually, those letters go to production or the production's attorney. It was sent to me and Gabe personally. And we talked to our lawyers, and they said, "You don't want controversy; we want this to be a low profile. Don't talk about the letter." So that's what we did.And then I got a call from a news outlet saying, "We obtained a copy of this letter." I thought, how the fuck did you obtain a copy when nobody has it except for me and Gabe? So I felt if this is not orchestrated then I'm really paranoid. It was like they made sure it got in the news that they sent the letter. <div type="image" title="Donald Trump 2024 south carolina" height="683" width="1024" msid="114155807" hostid="261" sizebytes="37680"></div>Are you afraid that certain movies will not get made if Trump is president again?It's a small fear for me; it's a much bigger fear for this country. He has been bullying people by being able to have things said about him or not said about him and his life and his family. I think he'll want certain things to happen in the entertainment space. I would say to studio people, "I'm surprised; you all know you can make money out of this movie." They were telling me, "This is an entertaining movie. It's not what we thought it would be. This is quite viable commercially." And I would say, "So what's the problem?"And they would explain that though they have no problem with it when they go up to the media company or the telecom company that owns the entire thing, they might be afraid that a possible Trump administration would come after them: trade sanctions or taxes or whatever. That's not unthinkable. It sounds like Sebastian and Jeremy were in character throughout the production. How far did they take that? Would you direct them by their real names or Donald and Roy?I mean, Sebastian, Jeremy, Maria, Martin Donovan [who plays Trump's older brother Fred]; they all have their own way of tackling the material. Being in character, not being in character; Method, not Method.My way of working is I need to create a certain reality on set, and it needs to happen the moment it's happening. So, for me, the preparation is one thing, but then what actually happens on set as we turn on the camera is important.I tried really to keep the material fresh for them. Not to do 200 different angles, and if we did do different coverage, I tried to throw them a curveball once in a while. Do something improvised.I liked the idea that when you do a take, the actors don't know exactly what's happening because that's life. <div type="image" title="Maria Bakalova as Ivana Trump and Sebastian Stan as Donald Trump in &quot;The Apprentice.&quot;" height="675" width="1200" msid="114155804" hostid="261" sizebytes="66734"></div>Give me an example of a curveball. There was a moment with Donald and Ivana [are] on the escalator in Trump Tower. They were going down and talking and there was tension between them through the night.At one point, I told Sebastian when you go down the escalator this time, you're going to see this woman that Donald has been fucking, and you get worried that Ivana might see her. I never told Maria this. We did a few takes.Then I went to Maria [and said] that Ivana just found out that this woman you're going to see is having an affair with Donald. And I didn't tell Sebastian this. We did a few takes of that. Now, in the edit, you can decide which reaction to the woman works better in the scene: Donald's or Ivana's. Exactly. The way I like to work, especially with this project, was seeing reality through different angles and perspectives. The movie came together for me in the editing. There were certainly things I asked the actors that might have sounded weird to them or not logical and I'm happy they were generous enough to roll with the punches. Like asking Jeremy to put on a frog costume for a dream sequence?Well, that was his own idea. There was this sequence in the script where Donald, after seeing Roy a few times, starts dreaming of him, and it has a slight homoerotic undertone.For me, it was more about showing how big an effect Roy has on Donald. We're shooting it in an interesting way with a curved mirror, and then Jeremy says, "How about I wear a frog costume and sing <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lupNzpcpDRk">'I Am What I Am</a>?'" And I said, "I think that might be too much," but I didn't want to kill his joy.So we continued and I'm hoping he just forgets about the idea. Then I realized he sent someone from costume to get a fucking frog costume. So we ended up with Jeremy in a frog costume.Will that scene ever see the light of day?Well, anything is possible. [Laughs.]<div type="image" title="Maria Bakalova Jeremy Strong Ali Abbasi Sebastian Stan standing next to each other" height="2880" width="4166" msid="114155806" hostid="261" sizebytes="653088"></div>Do you admire Donald Trump after making this movie?My feelings toward him as a human being haven't changed, really. Some of my liberal friends hate him, but their point of view is he's dumb, the way he talks is all over the place, and he's greedy. And I'm like, you're really underestimating the whole US political system.This is the most complicated political system in the world. You don't become president if you're not extremely intelligent and extremely savvy, and whatever you think of the guy, you can't say, "Oh, he's dumb."I admire his relentlessness. That's his biggest asset as a politician. I don't think he's a good businessman. If he stayed in real estate it wouldn't have ended well. But you see, he has this ability to come with the one-liners and be in the moment. So, as a human being, that's interesting.Just because he's such a good entertainer, sometimes you forget the seriousness and gravity of some of the stuff he's saying and what some of his followers are doing. I think that's dangerous. Do you think he will accept the results of this election?I saw, like everyone else, what happened on January 6th, which was horrific. And I have a feeling that a lot of people got away with insane stuff. Look at that footage.When you see that, you think, why would they change their opinion about this election? Why would they magically accept this when they didn't accept that?But somehow, I'm an optimist. I was optimistic when people told me not to do this movie or when people said no one would buy this movie, so I really hope that everyone learned their lesson on January 6th. I hope to think that even though people may be tempted to do that again, they know what the consequences are, and they don't do it. This interview has been condensed and edited for clarity.

'The Apprentice' director shares the challenges of making a Donald Trump movie despite receiving a cease-and-desist letter from the former president

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Former President Donald Trump was wounded at a rally Saturday in what is being investigated as an assassination attempt.</li><li>Trump was seen with blood on his face as he clutched his ear in front of the screaming crowd.</li></ul>Former President Donald Trump was wounded during a Saturday campaign rally in Pennsylvania, in an incident that is being investigated as an attempted assassination.Trump was <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://x.com/Acyn/status/1812249329203286464">speaking to supporters</a> at the Butler, Pennsylvania, rally when gunshots rang out, and he was subsequently seen with <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://businessinsider.com/trump-photos-secret-service-rushing-blood-ear-2024-7/">blood on his face</a>. He was then seen defiantly raising his fist before being <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-photos-secret-service-rushing-blood-ear-2024-7">whisked off stage by Secret Service agents</a>.The Secret Service said in a statement that a suspected shooter opened fire toward the stage from an "elevated position" outside the venue where Trump was holding his rally.A representative for the FBI confirmed to Business Insider early on Sunday that the shooting suspect is <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/who-was-thomas-matthew-crooks-the-trump-rally-shooter-2024-7">Thomas Matthew Crooks</a>, 20, of Bethel Park, Pennsylvania.Kevin Rojek, a spokesperson for the FBI, in a press briefing shortly after midnight on Sunday morning, said the agency had deemed the incident an attempted assassination of the former president.Rojek and other FBI officials said in a briefing on Sunday afternoon that they are also assessing the incident as a potential act of domestic terrorism."We are investigating this as an assassination attempt but also looking at it as a potential domestic terrorism act. So our counterterrorism division and our criminal divisions are working, working jointly together to determine the motive," said Robert Wells, the Assistant Director of the Counterterrorism Division.A bystander at the rally died in the shooting, the Secret Service said, while two others were critically injured. The Secret Service said its agents killed the gunman.The victim killed at the rally was identified as <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/victim-trump-rally-shooting-corey-comperatore-shielded-family-from-gunfire-2024-7">Corey Comperatore</a>, a 50-year-old former fire chief of the Buffalo Township Volunteer Fire Company in Pennsylvania.In a Truth Social message posted several hours after the shooting, Trump thanked the Secret Service "and all of Law Enforcement, for their rapid response on the shooting that just took place in Butler, Pennsylvania.""Most importantly, I want to extend my condolences to the family of the person at the Rally who was killed, and also to the family of another person that was badly injured. It is incredible that such an act can take place in our Country. Nothing is known at this time about the shooter, who is now dead."Trump wrote that he was shot with "a bullet that pierced the upper part of my right ear.""I knew immediately that something was wrong in that I heard a whizzing sound, shots, and immediately felt the bullet ripping through the skin," Trump wrote. "Much bleeding took place, so I realized then what was happening. GOD BLESS AMERICA!"A Trump spokesperson called the shooting a "heinous act" but said the former president and presumptive GOP nominee was "fine."<a target="_blank" class="" href="https://x.com/DarrenBotelho/status/1812256144179544545">NBC News</a> correspondent Darren Botelho reported security at the event could be heard saying, "The shooter is down," following the incident.David McCormick, the Republican nominee for Senate in Pennsylvania, had been seated in the front row of the rally and told Politico it appeared a member of the crowd behind him had been shot."All the sudden shots started to crack, someone behind me appears to have been shot," McCormick told <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.politico.com/news/2024/07/13/trump-rushed-off-stage-at-pennsylvania-rally-after-possible-gunfire-00167977">Politico</a>. "There's lots of blood, and then the Secret Service were all over President Trump."Politicians from across the ideological spectrum were quick to <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/democrats-condemn-trump-rally-incident-pennsylvania-2024-7">condemn political violence</a> and wish Trump a speedy recovery.<div type="image" title="Mike Johnson" height="2736" width="4104" msid="111737155" hostid="261"></div>In a statement issued following the shooting, President Joe Biden said he was "grateful to hear" that Trump is safe and doing well."I'm praying for him and his family and for all those who were at the rally as we await further information," Biden's statement continued. "Jill and I are grateful to the Secret Service for getting him to safety. There's no place for this kind of violence in America. We must unite as one nation to condemn it."Biden later <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-shooting-biden-statement-unite-against-political-violence-2024-7">addressed the nation</a>, saying the shooting was "sick" and calling on Americans to stop political violence."It's one of the reasons we have to unite this country," Biden said. "We cannot allow for this to be happening. We cannot be like this. We cannot condone this."The Biden campaign later said it was <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/biden-campaign-pause-communications-shooting-donald-trump-rally-2024-7">pulling down TV ads</a> in the wake of the shooting. The president spoke directly with Trump on Saturday, later adding that he had a "short but good conversation" with the former president.Biden is set to address the nation from the Oval Office on Sunday evening.House Speaker Mike Johnson of Louisiana vowed in a post on X that the House would probe the "tragic events" that occurred at the rally."The American people deserve to know the truth," Johnson wrote. "We will have Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle and other appropriate officials from DHS and the FBI appear for a hearing before our committees ASAP."Johnson also weighed in on the shooting during a Sunday appearance on NBC's "Today," <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/mike-johnson-trump-rally-shooting-political-rhetoric-election-2024-7">denouncing political violence</a> and urging leaders to help "turn the rhetoric down" in the US."We need leaders of all parties, on both sides, to call that out and make sure that happens so that we can go forward and maintain our free society that we all are blessed to have," he said.With the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee set to begin this week, the GOP over the past few days had been largely focused on the event as a showcase for their party. Trump so far has not changed his plans regarding his appearances at the convention.But the shooting incident threatens to upend an already tumultuous presidential contest with the general election now less than four months away.

Donald Trump was wounded in an assassination attempt during his Pennsylvania rally

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Former President Donald Trump was whisked off stage at a Pennsylvania rally on Saturday.</li><li>Apparent gunshots were heard before blood appeared on Trump's face.</li></ul>Prominent Democratic lawmakers were quick to condemn a shooting at a Saturday <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-butler-pennsylvania-rally-secret-service-2024-7">Trump rally</a> in Pennsylvania, where the former president was whisked off the stage by the Secret Service after popping sounds akin to gunfire were heard.In a statement about what President Joe Biden said was a "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 for all those who were at the rally, as we await further information," Biden said in the statement."Jill and I are grateful to the Secret Service for getting him to safety. There's no place for this kind of violence in America. We must unite as one nation to condemn it.""There is no place for political violence in our democracy," former President Barack Obama said in a statement. "Although we don't yet know exactly what happened, we should all be relieved that former President Trump was not seriously hurt, and use this moment to recommit ourselves to civility and respect in our politics. Michelle and I are wishing him a quick recovery.""Violence has NO place in our democracy," California Gov. Gavin Newson wrote in a statement on X. "My thoughts are with President Trump and everyone impacted at the rally today."Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, who <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/whitmer-kidnapping-plot-suspect-to-tie-her-up-fbi-trial-2022-3">was the subject of a kidnapping plot</a> several years ago, wrote on X: "There is no place for political violence in this country, period. This is not how we solve our differences.""I am horrified to learn of this news, and we will be following the situation closely. I am grateful for those in law enforcement who stepped in immediately," Whitmer wrote.<a target="_blank" class="" href="https://x.com/SenSchumer/status/1812262032668049421">Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer</a>, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, and Sen. Bernie Sanders also quickly condemned what they characterized as an act of "political violence.""Political violence is absolutely unacceptable," Sanders wrote on X. "I wish Donald Trump, and anyone else who may have been hurt, a speedy recovery."House Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi, whose <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/paul-pelosi-attacker-david-depape-sentence-terrorism-2024-5">husband was attacked in 2022</a>, said, "As one whose family has been the victim of political violence, I know firsthand that political violence of any kind has no place in our society. I thank God that former President Trump is safe."As we learn more details about this horrifying incident, let us pray that all thoseA member of the Biden administration also condemned the incident."In this horrible moment, encouraged to hear President Trump's team indicate that the former president is doing well," Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://x.com/SecretaryPete/status/1812262597544063431">said on X</a>."An entire nation must speak with one voice today to completely and unequivocally reject all political violence."Details of the Saturday incident remain unclear, but photos and video footage appear to show blood on Donald Trump's face as he was removed from the stage by security detail.Anthony Guglielmi, a spokesperson for the US Secret Service, wrote on X that, "An incident occurred the evening of July 13 at a Trump rally in Pennsylvania.""The Secret Service has implemented protective measures and the former President is safe," the statement continued. "This is now an active Secret Service investigation and further information will be released when available."In a statement to Business Insider, a Trump spokesperson said in an email, "President Trump thanks law enforcement and first responders for their quick action during this heinous act. He is fine and is being checked out at a local medical facility. More details will follow."This is a developing story. Check back for updates.

Democratic lawmakers immediately condemn shooting at Trump rally

<ul class="summary-list"><li>World leaders are reacting to the news that Donald Trump survived an assassination attempt.</li><li>Trump said a bullet "pierced" his ear at a rally before he was rushed away by the Secret Service.</li></ul>Leaders across the world have come out in support of former <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-butler-pennsylvania-rally-secret-service-2024-7">President Donald Trump after he survived an assassination attempt</a> at a rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday.The gunman behind the attack has been identified as 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks of Bethel Park, Pennsylvania, the FBI said.Crooks and a rally attendee who was caught in the crossfire have both been <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-pennsylvania-rally-shooting-deaths-2024-7">pronounced dead</a>.Following the attack, Trump stood defiantly with blood smeared across his face and fist in the air before he was whisked away by the Secret Service.Heads of state from countries including Canada, France, Israel, and Ukraine have since sent words of support to Trump, while political opponents, such as Joe Biden and Barack Obama, have also condemned the attack.Here's how some of the world's leaders have reacted.<h3 id="1654fb48-cc41-409e-8776-0ec4d7add2b6">President Joe Biden</h3>Trump's election rival called the attack "sick" in a press briefing following the incident, saying that there was "no place in America for this kind of violence."It's one of the reasons why we have to unite this country," he added.On social media, Biden also thanked the Secret Service and said he was "grateful to hear" that Trump was safe and "doing well."<h3 id="659d9b9c-1b83-4c91-a5bc-95d55279a30d">Vice President Kamala Harris</h3>Kamala Harris condemned the "abhorrent act" and said that she was praying for Trump, his family, and "all those who have been injured and impacted by this senseless shooting.""Violence such as this has no place in our nation," she added.<h3 id="19814641-69c8-4813-ad01-d650fbbda99a">UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer</h3>The newly-elected UK Prime Minister said he was "appalled" by the incident, adding that "political violence in any form has no place in our societies and my thoughts are with all the victims of this attack."<h3 id="d9331076-f7d7-4085-9c1d-eeee959757e6">Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu</h3>Israel's Prime Minister, Netanyahu, said that he and his wife were "shocked" by the incident and that they were praying for Trump's recovery.<h3 id="1def0072-bbd5-41a8-ac6f-7c804d4b0b62">Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau</h3>Canada's head of state said he was "sickened" by the shooting."My thoughts are with former President Trump, those at the event, and all Americans," he added.<h3 id="7ff17992-8892-4807-9e9a-1a87ab46c477">French President Emmanuel Macron</h3>Macron called the assassination attempt a "tragedy for our democracies.""France shares the shock and indignation of the American people," he added.<h3 id="952fcfed-c21f-4b6b-aa52-b88707261a4f">Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy</h3>Ukraine's wartime president said he was "appalled" to hear about the shooting and said that "such violence has no justification and no place anywhere in the world.""I wish America emerges stronger from this," he added.<h3 id="f6c03c82-903c-4067-9ac4-adff1aa58e84">Former President Barack Obama</h3>Obama called on people to use the incident "to recommit ourselves to civility and respect in our politics.""Although we don't yet know exactly what happened, we should all be relieved that former President Trump wasn't seriously hurt," he wrote on X.<h3 id="df28f276-b126-40bc-9d4c-9bdacb8a5218">German Chancellor Olaf Scholz</h3>Olaf Scholz, the chancellor of Germany, called the attack "despicable.""My thoughts are also with all of those who were affected by the attack. Such acts of violence threaten democracy," he said.<h3 id="02688302-2ca2-462b-a526-84d6021e9654">Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi</h3>India's Prime Minister said he was concerned about the attack on his "friend" and strongly condemned the incident."Violence has no place in politics and democracies. Wish him speedy recovery," Modi wrote on X.<h3 id="7deb2fac-14f8-4d8e-aaa7-36411d03e66b">Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni</h3>Meloni said of Trump: "My solidarity and my best wishes for a speedy recovery go to him, with the hope that the next few months of the electoral campaign will see dialogue and responsibility prevail over hatred and violence."<h3 id="f156faf4-3afc-4b50-88c1-c4dfc52f985b">Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida</h3>Japan's Kishida said, "We must stand firm against any form of violence that challenges democracy."One of Kishida's predecessors, former Japanese Prime Minister <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/live-updates-japans-former-prime-minister-shinzo-abe-shot-2022-7">Shinzo Abe, was assassinated in 2022</a>. He was shot while delivering a campaign speech two years after his term as PM ended.<h3 id="bfa0420e-ff3e-440a-a168-161394787649">Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese</h3>Albanese called the attack "concerning and confronting," adding that he was relieved to hear reports that Trump was safe."There is no place for violence in the democratic process," Albanese wrote.<h3 id="e1a65284-71b8-416a-a7f0-765ffbe292d2">Dutch Prime Minister Dick Schoof</h3>Schoof expressed relief that Trump's injuries were seemingly minor and wished him a quick recovery."Political violence is entirely unacceptable," he wrote on X.<h3 id="746303df-077f-42c5-9001-d3b23da555d2">Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán</h3>Orbán, who met with Trump just days ago at Mar-a-Lago, sent his "thoughts and prayers" to the former president "in these dark hours."

World leaders are rallying behind Donald Trump after he survived an assassination attempt

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Secret Service said former President Donald Trump is "safe" after a shooting at a campaign rally.</li><li>A Trump spokesperson told BI the former president is "fine" and "being checked out" at a local medical facility.</li></ul>Donald Trump is doing "fine" following a <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-butler-pennsylvania-rally-secret-service-2024-7">shooting at a Saturday rally</a> in Butler, Pennsylvania, a Trump spokesperson told Business Insider in an email.The former president was whisked off the stage by his security detail after gunshots were heard."President Trump thanks law enforcement and first responders for their quick action during this heinous act," the spokesperson said. "He is fine and is being checked out at a local medical facility. More details will follow."<a target="_blank" class="" href="https://x.com/Acyn/status/1812249329203286464">Video from the rally</a> shows Trump ducking and reaching a hand near his face. <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-photos-secret-service-rushing-blood-ear-2024-7">Photos following the incident show blood</a> around the former president's ear.A Secret Service spokesperson<a target="_blank" class="" href="https://x.com/secretsvcspox/status/1812288378596982908?s=46"> said</a> on X that the former president is "safe and being evaluated" after "a suspected shooter fired multiple shots toward the stage from an elevated position outside of the rally venue."The suspected shooter is dead and a spectator at the event was killed in the shooting, according to the Secret Service."US Secret Service personnel neutralized the shooter, who is now deceased," the Secret Service's statement continued. "US Secret Service quickly responded with proactive measures and the former president is safe and being evaluated. One spectator was killed, two spectators were critically injured. The incident is currently under investigation and the Secret Service has formally notified the Federal Bureau of Investigation."Trump said in a post on social media that a bullet had pierced the top part of his ear."I want to thank The United States Secret Service, and all of Law Enforcement, for their rapid response on the shooting that just took place in Butler, Pennsylvania," Trump said in a post on Truth Social. "Most importantly, I want to extend my condolences to the family of the person at the Rally who was killed, and also to the family of another person that was badly injured.""It is incredible that such an act can take place in our Country," his statement continued. "Nothing is known at this time about the shooter, who is now dead. I was shot with a bullet that pierced the upper part of my right ear. I knew immediately that something was wrong in that I heard a whizzing sound, shots, and immediately felt the bullet ripping through the skin. Much bleeding took place, so I realized then what was happening. GOD BLESS AMERICA!"President Joe Biden issued a statement in the wake of the shooting, saying he had been briefed on the matter."I have been brief on the shooting at Donald Trump's rally in Pennsylvania," Biden's statement said. "I'm grateful to hear that he's safe and doing well. I'm praying for him and his family and for all those who were at the rally, as we await further information.""Jill and I are grateful to the Secret Service for getting him to safety. There's no place for this kind of violence in America," the statement continued. "We must unite as one nation to condemn it."<a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-shooting-biden-statement-unite-against-political-violence-2024-7">Biden also addressed the nation</a> in separate remarks on Saturday night."It's sick. It's sick," Biden said. "It's one of the reasons we have to unite this country. We cannot allow for this to be happening. We cannot be like this. We cannot condone this."This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.

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