Saturday, July 13: Gunshots rang out at about 6:15 pm, during former President Trump’s speech at a rally in Butler, PA. His Secret Service agents attempted to rushed him off the stage, but he insisted they “wait, wait.”
CLICK https://x.com/peterjhasson/status/1812251372038815762?s=46&t=mwcG9TleShkOgZ4z0YNszA [:12] to see him gesture and mouth “Fight! Fight!” to the crowd, as blood runs down his face.
Donald Trump Jr. said he has spoken with his father on the phone, and that the former president is in “great spirits.”
President Biden declined to call the shooting an “assassination attempt” before he has all the facts. He did say that “the idea that there’s political violence or violence in America like this is just unheard of.”
FYI: Joe –
1835: President Andrew Jackson was shot at while attending a funeral in the Capitol.
1865: Abraham Lincoln was the first president to die by assassination.
1881: James Garfield was shot at a train station in Washington, DC, in July 1881. He died from his wounds months later.
1901: President William McKinley was shot in Buffalo, New York. He lingered for days before dying from his wounds.
1912: Former President Theodore Roosevelt was shot when, like Trump, he was campaigning to get his old job back.
1933: Franklin D. Roosevelt was president-elect when a would-be assassin fired at him in Miami.
1950: Harry Truman was shot at across from the White House by Puerto Rican nationalists.
1963: President John F. Kennedy was killed during a parade in Dallas.
1968: JFK’s brother, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, was shot and killed in Los Angeles the night he won the California Democratic primary.
1972: Alabama Gov. George Wallace was shot while running for president. The injury left him paralyzed from the waist down.
1975: Gerald Ford was shot at twice within a few weeks. Both attempts were foiled.
1981: Ronald Reagan was shot outside the Hilton in Washington, DC, after giving a speech.
2011: An Idaho man fired shots at the White House and was charged with the attempted assassination of Barack Obama.
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