Shooting at Trump rally comes at volatile time in American history

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Former President Donald Trump clutched his right ear as blood spurted out, then ducked for cover as supporters screamed and Secret Service agents raced to surround and protect him...

Within moments, someone shouted "shooter down," and the agents, agitated but in control, began moving Trump offstage to safety. "Wait, wait, wait, wait," he called out, then made a point of pumping his fist at the crowd and seemed to defiantly shout, "Fight!.

For the first time in more than four decades, a man who was elected president of the United States was wounded in an assassination attempt when a gunman who appeared to have crawled onto a nearby roof opened fire at Trump at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, on Saturday evening..

Even as Biden's campaign said that it would suspend television advertising, supporters of Trump quickly blamed liberals, the news media and Biden for stoking animosity against the former president and said that it had led to the attack...

"For years, and even today, leftist activists, democrat donors and now even @JoeBiden have made disgusting remarks and descriptions of shooting Donald Trump it's high time they be held accountable for it the best way is through the ballot box," he wrote on social media..