2024-07-14 23:19:15
Former US President Donald Trump sent an email to his supporters with a short message of defiance after he was shot during a rally Saturday evening in Butler, Pennsylvania.
The brief email read: “This is a message from Donald Trump. I will never give up!” The email bore Trump’s signature and picture.
In the context, CNN reported that “Secret Service agents assigned to protect former US President Donald Trump killed the gunman who opened fire at the election rally in Pennsylvania.”
The FBI said the Pennsylvania incident was an attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump, urging anyone who attended the rally “to report any information.”
The FBI added: “We are not yet ready to announce the identity of the shooter and have not yet determined his motives.”
The FBI said it had no prior information about a threat to Trump’s rally, and was “conducting interviews and searching suspicious locations, vehicles and sites related to this incident.”
The shooting incident of former US President Donald Trump caused a great uproar. Commenting on the incident, US President Joe Biden said, “He did not receive any information about the alleged attack on his predecessor, Donald Trump.”
Later, the White House announced that “US President Joe Biden received an ‘initial briefing’ on the incident that occurred to his predecessor and US presidential candidate Donald Trump during his speech at an election rally in Pennsylvania.”
A White House spokesman told reporters, “The president has received preliminary information about the incident that occurred to his predecessor Trump while he was speaking at an election rally.”
Former Republican President George W. Bush said, “Laura and I are grateful that President Trump is safe after the cowardly attack on his life, and we commend the men and women of the Secret Service for their swift response.”
For her part, in a comment on the assassination attempt on Trump, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova recalled her previous warning of “an incitement campaign against Trump launched by his Democratic opponents.”
“Trump has been the victim of an assassination attempt,” Zakharova wrote on Telegram on Sunday morning. “Exactly two months ago, I drew attention to the fact that in the United States they literally encourage incitement to hatred of political opponents, and I also gave examples of the American tradition of assassinations and attempted assassinations of presidents and presidential candidates.”
Zakharova attached a link to a text she published on May 13, in which she referred to the “hypocrisy of Western advocates of democracy, the rule of law and human rights,” some of whom in the United States openly declare their “need to kill presidential candidate Donald Trump.”
She stressed that such “statements do not come on a social network, but rather in the official media by democratic politicians.”
And condemned Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-SisiDonald Trump was subjected to an assassination attempt, and Sisi said in a statement: “I followed with concern the treacherous incident that happened to former US President and presidential candidate Donald Trump.”
He stressed Egypt’s condemnation of the incident, expressing “wishes for a speedy recovery for President Trump, and the completion of the American election campaigns in a peaceful and healthy atmosphere, free of any manifestations of terrorism, violence or hatred.”
Trump survived an assassination attempt on Saturday when he was shot while delivering his speech at an election rally for his supporters in Pennsylvania.
Last updated: July 14, 2024 – 10:35
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