Former first lady Melania Trump has released a statement following the assassination attempt on her husband, former President Trump, at a rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday, blasting the shooter as a “monster” and calling for the country to “reunite.” She said the gunman was “a monster who recognized my husband as an inhuman political machine”...
The Pennsylvania State Police released the names of the three attendees shot during the attempted assassination of former President Trump at Saturday’s rally in Butler County. The deceased victim was identified as Corey Comperatore, 50, of Sarver, Pennsylvania. The second victim was identified as 57-year-old David Dutch of New Kensington, Pennsylvania, who is listed in...
The New York Times called the assassination attempt on former President Trump “antithetical” to the idea of America in an editorial published Saturday evening. “Americans received a sobering reminder on Saturday of the threat that political violence poses to our democracy,” the editorial, headlined “The Attack on Donald Trump Is Antithetical to America,” read. “It...
House Majority Leader Steve Scalise blamed the left and the media’s rhetoric for energizing the suspected Trump shooter, as well as his own gunman during the congressional baseball shooting, on “Fox & Friends Weekend.” He called the former president “strong” and commended him for “fighting for a movement.” SPLIT-SECOND TURN COULD HAVE SAVED TRUMP’S LIFE,...
A retired Seattle teacher “begged forgiveness” from his former students in an emotional letter scolding the Supreme Court and Congress for not “protecting” America from another Trump presidency. “Dear kids, I lied to you. Every single one of you. From 1974 through 2017. And now I feel terrible about it,” Michael McSweeney, 71, wrote in...
A House Republican lawmaker is alleging that Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas denied stronger Secret Service protection for former President Trump multiple times. Rep. Mike Waltz, R-Fla., made the accusation hours after Trump was grazed by a bullet at his Saturday Pennsylvania rally. “I have very reliable sources telling me there have been repeated requests...
President Biden is spending his weekend away from the White House at his Delaware beach house, a well-known retreat for the president, ahead of high-stakes interviews and the Republican Party’s convention next week. Following a Friday evening campaign event in Michigan, the president’s weekend at Rehoboth Beach has been largely quiet after he acknowledged on...
A top Senate appropriator is considering fencing off operational funding for the Supreme Court in the fiscal year 2025 spending bill and forcing the court to enforce an ethics code in order to access it following controversies over Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito’s wives’ political behavior and gifts the justices have been given by...
Republicans rushed to offer support to former President Trump after possible gun shots were heard during a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania and Trump was escorted off the stage by Secret Service with apparent blood on his face. “Kelly and I are praying for President Trump and all the attendees of the campaign rally today in...
“I’m not going anywhere.” This week, a defiant Joe Biden called into”Morning Joe”to rebuke members of his own party who are urging him to drop out of the presidential race. The early morning phone interview was as shaky as his televised sit-down with ABC’s George Stephanopoulos—and just as rambling as his debate performance before that....
