WHAT

  • Former U.S. President Donald J. Trump was shot at a rally in PA.

TRUMPS STATEMENT

“I want to thank The United States Secret Service, and all of Law Enforcement, for their rapid response on the shooting that just took place in Butler, Pennsylvania. Most importantly, I want to extend my condolences to the family of the person at the Rally who was killed, and also to the family of another person that was badly injured. It is incredible that such an act can take place in our Country. Nothing is known at this time about the shooter, who is now dead. I was shot with a bullet that pierced the upper part of my right ear. I knew immediately that something was wrong in that I heard a whizzing sound, shots, and immediately felt the bullet ripping through the skin. Much bleeding took place, so I realized then what was happening. GOD BLESS AMERICA!”

WHAT WE THINK WE KNOW SO FAR

  • gunman is dead
  • Trump “is fine”
  • one attendee is dead
  • another attendee is in critical condition

News Sources

  • John Richard@lemmy.world
    03·
    6 months ago

    How many deaths did it result in? Cause there is only one death on Jan 6 that has ever been attributed to Jan 6.

    I don’t disagree that he incited the insurrection, but making false claims doesn’t help show that the left is the party of honesty.

    • ABCDE@lemmy.world
      1·
      6 months ago

      The left, who? What party?

      https://www.factcheck.org/2021/11/how-many-died-as-a-result-of-capitol-riot/

      Babbitt plus suicides, and other “natural” deaths.

      On March 7, the District of Columbia’s Police and Firefighters’ Retirement and Relief Board declared that Metropolitan Police Officer Jeffrey Smith’s suicide in the days after the Jan. 6 riot was a line-of-duty death. The board concluded “that Officer Smith sustained a personal injury on January 6, 2021, while performing his duties and that his injury was the sole and direct cause of his death.

    • JJROKCZ@lemmy.world
      1·
      6 months ago

      Hey numbnuts, America doesn’t have a left and it’s the MAGA fascists that are the problem here

    • retrospectology@lemmy.world
      21·
      6 months ago

      Why are you pretending like right-wing violence isn’t the literal leading domestic security threat?

      Have you been living under a rock since 2016?

        • retrospectology@lemmy.world
          0·
          6 months ago

          Well, yeah, I mean, we can go back a hundred years, conservatives will always be pushing violence and division whatever era you look at since they can’t hold power without it, I mostly mean it’s come out fully into the open since 2016. The mask dropped off completely and they’re no longer even pretending to be anything but the Confederacy 2.0.