Donald Trump shot in the ear during campaign, FBI to probe rally

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Pennsylvania: Donald Trump was shot in the ear during a Saturday campaign rally, streaking the Republican presidential candidates blood across his face and prompting his security agents to swarm him, before he emerged and pumped his fist in the air, mouthing the words Fight!.

CNN, citing sources, said the FBI had identified the suspected shooter, a 20-year-old Pennsylvania man.. Trump is due to receive his partys formal nomination at the Republican National Convention, which kicks off in Milwaukee on Monday.. This horrific act of political violence at a peaceful campaign rally has no place in this country and should be unanimously and forcefully condemned, Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson said on social media...

Political violence has no place in our country, he said.. Bidens campaign was pausing its television ads and halting all other outbound communication, a campaign official said.. Americans fear rising political violence, recent Reuters/Ipsos polling shows, with two out of three respondents to a May survey saying they worried violence could follow the election...

For weeks Democrat leaders have been fueling ludicrous hysteria that Donald Trump winning re-election would be the end of democracy in America, said U.S. Representative Steve Scalise, the No. 2 House Republican, who survived a politically motivated shooting in 2017..

Trump, who served as president from 2017-2021, easily bested his rivals for the Republican nomination early in the campaign and has largely unified around him the party that had briefly wavered in support after his supporters attacked the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, attempting to overturn his 2020 election defeat...