On July 13, 2024, former US president Donald Trump was the victim of an attempted assassination attempt while at campaigning ahead of the 2024 US presidential elections at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.
The would-be assassin, identified by the FBI as 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks of Bethel Park, Pennsylvania, was positioned on a nearby rooftop and fired on Trump with an assault rifle, hitting the former president in the ear and hitting several others, killing at least one person before being shot and killed by Secret Service personnel.
Much of the circumstances surrounding the assassination, such as Crooks's motivation, are still unknown at the time of writing.
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Thomas Matthew Crooks, who tried to assassinate Trump, used a drone to scout the rally site, later firing from a rooftop, killing one and injuring two.
Crooks was able to crawl across the roof overlooking Trump's rally and fire eight bullets from a semi-automatic rifle before he was fatally shot by a Secret Service sniper.
Kimberly Cheatle resigned after failing to prevent an assassination attempt on Donald Trump at a rally.
The bullet consolidated the martyr’s image that Trump has cultivated all along, but unlike all other martyrs, whose resurrection is only a hope, his second coming will be real.
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This assassination attempt on Trump is only the latest endeavor to stop him from leading the United States in 2025.
Hamas forces Gazans to stay in targeted areas. The ratio of combatant to civilian casualties in the strikes was only slightly higher than permitted by NATO.
After joining presidents who survived assassination attempts, Trump can now make history as a president who learned that a country out of control with violence needs a gentler hand to lead it.
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