Assassination Attempt On Donald Trump

Various outlets are reporting on the incident, but here is the story from NBC News: "Trump injured, rushed from stage after shots fired at Pennsylvania rally." The article relates:

    Former President Donald Trump was rushed off the stage with blood on the side of his head and his ear after shots were fired just minutes into his rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday.

    Trump is currently safe and is expected to survive, according to two senior law enforcement officials briefed on the matter.

    One spectator from the rally is dead, and a second is in serious condition, according to the Butler County district attorney. The shooter is dead, NBC News confirms.

Listening to video of the incident, it sounds like there were 8 shots in total, but the last shot sounded different and was likely the shot that killed the would-be assassin. The New York Post is reporting that the Secret Service and or police snipers had returned shots and killed the shooter. The article also indicated that "The shooter, identified only as a white male, was in a sniper position located hundreds of yards away from Trump’s podium in Butler, Pa. as he spoke to a campaign crowd, sources said." Earlier, though, the shooter had been identified as a Chinese man.

    I would note that various Democrats and other leftists have been urging or wishing the assassination of Trump for a long time. Just last week, Nancy Pelosi stated in an interview on MSNBC about Trump:

"This is not a normal election where you want to win and if you don't, you cooperate and do the best you can for the country and hope to win the next time. This is something that is undermining our democracy. He must be stopped. He cannot be president!"

In 2023, Lincoln Project co-founder Rick Wilson had written on X that Trump needed to be killed. Earlier in the week, Biden had told supporters that it was time to put Trump in a bullseye. And just this afternoon, a field director for Democrat Congressman Bennie G. Thompson (who headed the Jan. 6th Commission and recently proposed legislation to remove Trump’s Secret Service detail) expressed her wish that the assassin had better aim.