Trump rally shooting being investigated as assassination attempt: suspect and audience member killed – latest updates | Donald Trump

The White House has announced that Joe Biden will soon deliver remarks, following a shooting at Donald Trump’s rally that left an audience member and the suspected shooter dead.

The Associated Press reports that two law enforcement officials have confirmed that the shooting at Donald Trump’s rally is being investigated as an attempted assassination.

Joe Biden has released a statement about the shooting that left two people dead and saw Donald Trump rushed off stage by the Secret Service at a rally of the ex-president’s supporters in Butler, Pennsylvania:

I have been briefed on the shooting at Donald Trump’s rally in Pennsylvania.

I’m grateful to hear that he’s safe and doing well. I’m praying for him and his family and for all those who were at the rally, as we await further information.

Jill and I are grateful to the Secret Service for getting him to safety. There’s no place for this kind of violence in America. We must unite as one nation to condemn it.

Donald Trump’s Democratic predecessor Barack Obama joined those condemning political violence after an incident at a Trump rally in Pennsylvania left at least two people dead:

Lawmakers from both parties have issued statements condemning political violence after Donald Trump was injured during an incident at his rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.

Here’s Democratic former House speaker Nancy Pelosi, whose husband was bludgeoned by an intruder at their San Francisco home two years ago:

Mike Johnson, the Republican speaker of the House:

Mitch McConnell, the Republican senator minority leader:

Congressman Jamie Raskin, who was a Democratic member of the January 6 committee:

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Eyewitness Blake Marnell, 59, from San Diego, a supporter who wears a “Brick Suit” in homage to Trump’s wall, recalled via phone:

“I’m in the front row centre with some friends, watching the president speak. He was speaking about immigration. He had a slide on the big screen, the jumbotron. I was watching him and then I heard some noises. I registered them as coming from my left as I look straight ahead at the president. I didn’t know what they were. I don’t have any training that would enable me to recognise gunshots from firecrackers from something else like that.

“I was hoping that it was a prank, that it was a bad joke. I turned to my left. Didn’t see anything initially. I then turned back towards the president and that’s when I saw him essentially being tackled to the ground by the Secret Service. Then I heard some more noises, which at that point I believed to be shots, based on what the Secret Service was doing. I crouched down and then, seeing there were no more noises, got back up a little bit and tried to pay attention to what they were doing right behind the podium.

“I could hear the Secret Service agents talking. I did not hear any call for medical. I did hear them begin to coordinate, let’s get ready to move him, do a countdown. and then they brought him out. I was really apprehensive that they were going to carry him, but instead he was on his feet and he was shaking his fist defiantly. I could see blood above his right ear. I can’t say where that came from. He could have cut his ear when they tackled him. He could have hit it on the podium. It could be from a gunshot or ricochet. I have no idea where it was.

“There was clearly blood. I can’t even say if it was his blood; a Secret Serve agent could have cut their hand and transferred blood to his head. But I could tell that is was blood there so the natural inference is that he’s injured. I was optimistic based on the fact that he was not defiant, that he was shaking his fist, that they weren’t whisking him away super quickly, that they would allow him to do that, while they were around him protecting him. Just an incredible moment.

“Clearly our country needs to do a better job of settling differences. This is not the path. Nobody believes this is the path. It was hard to have reactions when I didn’t know how serious it was. I was saying a prayer for him, as were many people. We got together. We were praying for his safety, I was cautiously optimistic based upon the way I saw him leave but you can’t always tell.”

Butler county district attorney Richard A Goldinger has confirmed to the Associated Press that the shooter at Donald Trump’s rally, as well as an attendee, are dead.

Citing the local district attorney, the Washington Post reports that Donald Trump was grazed by gunfire in a shooting that left one audience member dead.

The shooter is dead, and another person is in serious condition:

Local broadcaster WTAE reports that one person may have been killed in the incident at the Trump rally:

The Senate’s Democratic leader Chuck Schumer said he was “horrified” by the incident at the Trump rally, and condemned political violence.

“I am horrified by what happened at the Trump rally in Pennsylvania and relieved that former President Trump is safe. Political violence has no place in our country,” Schumer said.

Democratic House minority leader Hakeem Jeffries said his “thoughts and prayers” were with Donald Trump after he was apparently injured at his rally today: