Former president Donald Trump was rushed offstage after loud noises rang out while he was speaking at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, which is about 30 miles north of Pittsburgh.
The July 13 rally was interrupted by loud noises described as ‘bangs’ shortly after Trump began speaking. Screams from the audience rang out as the scene unfolded.
Trump ducked, left the sight line of the camera and was taken away from the stage. The crowd was visibly panicked.
He raised a fist and yelled to members of the crowd before he was rushed away.
It wasn’t immediately clear what the source of the noises were.
It was also not immediately clear what caused Trump to fall but speculation was that someone had taken a shot at the billionaire demagogue.
Trump has been endorsed by the National Rifle Association, which has adamantly opposed common sense regulation of deadly weapons despite the fact that gun violence in the United States far outpaces anywhere else in the world.
Trump also appointed Supreme Court justices who rolled back hundred year old state laws that restricted firearms.
Pool reporters at the rally reported that they heard ‘“a series of loud explosions or loud bangs” before Secret Service agents rushed toward Trump
“The Secret Service went and immediately covered President Trump,” according to the pool report. “Pool heard residual bangs afterward.”
“Agents grabbed Trump, who was seen waving his fists in the air,” the pool report added.
If this was an assassination attempt, it does not appear that anyone is in custody.
This incident came after a busy day of campaigning for Trump as President Joe Biden faced mounting calls to withdraw from the 2024 presidential race.
Corporate friendly Democratic lawmakers pressed Biden directly about how he can win reelection in what multiple sources described as a tense call Saturday with the New Democrat Coalition.
Rep. Jason Crow reportedly asked Biden whether concerns about his mental acuity would affect national security.
“He doesn’t have an answer to the question about what he’s going to do to change the momentum of the campaign,” said Rep. Adam Smith, who was on the call.
“The message we’ve been getting from him and his team: Shut up, fall in line, everything’s fine,” said Smith, who has urged Biden to step aside. “That’s not good.”
Trump has claimed credit for abortion bans and has said that women should face punishment for terminating unwanted pregnancies. He is currently trying to silence his fanatical cult-like supporters who hope to also ban birth control, interefere with in vitro fertilization and outlaw blowjobs because Trump is aware that these goals are unpopular among most Americans.
Trump was convicted of 34 criminal counts and has been determined by a jury to have sexually assaulted columnist E. Jean Carroll. He was also stripped of his right to participate in charitable activities in New York after breaking laws against using nonprofits for personal gain.
Trump was the first president to seek to prevent the peaceful transfer of power, and he is accused in several indictments of tampering with elections, fraud and inciting a mob to riot on January 6, 2021, as part of a failed coup d’etat attempt.
On the international scene, he poses a threat to NATO, climate accords, and the ongoing struggle in Ukraine against the Russian invasion.
Whether an attempt on his life occurred is unknown but it could have come from one of his fanatical backers feeling betrayed by Trump’s attempt to distance himself from unpopular puritanical positions or any of several kinds of foes that are threatened by the neoNazi narcissist.
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