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    UPDATED: Trump Documents Case Dismissed

    UPDATED 7 p.m. Eastern—A federal judge in Florida on Monday dismissed the criminal classified documents case against former President Donald Trump, saying the appointment of special counsel Jack Smith as a prosecutor for the case violated the appointments clause of the U.S. Constitution. Smith’s office announced it would appeal the ruling. Trump faced charges of…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    Biden Compares Trump Assassination Attempt to Jan. 6

    President Joe Biden likened the assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump to the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot and the assault on Nancy Pelosi’s husband in his public address to the nation Sunday night. “We cannot, we must not, go down this road in America,” Biden said from the Oval Office. He continued: We’ve…
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    Garland, Wray Vow Dogged Investigation in Attempted Assassination of Trump

    Leaders of the Biden administration’s Justice Department and FBI, both agencies that have pursued Donald Trump relentlessly for various alleged misdeeds, vowed Sunday that they would aggressively investigate the attempted assassination of the 45th president.  The Justice Department “has no tolerance” for political violence, Attorney General Merrick Garland, who heads the agency, said in his…
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    What a Trump Rally Attendee Saw During and After Shooting

    The Daily Caller News Foundation—A special guest invited by former President Donald Trump’s team to his Pennsylvania rally provided the Daily Caller News Foundation videos he took as gunfire erupted in a failed assassination attempt against the GOP’s presumptive nominee. Benjamin Shrader, who is an event coordinator and CEO of Shrader Promotions LLC, was invited…
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    GoFundMe for Trump Rally Shooting Victims Raises More Than $3 Million

    Editor’s note: As of Sunday evening, the total raised is more than $3.1 million. The Daily Caller News Foundation—The GoFundMe campaign raising money for victims of the shooting at former President Donald Trump’s Butler, Pennsylvania, rally raised more than $2 million in 14 hours, according to the fundraising website. The fundraiser titled “Support For Butler PA…
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    Dem Staffer Said Shooter Shouldn’t ‘Miss Next Time.’ Her Boss Wanted to Strip Trump’s Secret Service Protection

    Rep. Bennie Thompson, a Mississippi Democrat, filed a bill to revoke Secret Service protection from convicted felons sentenced to prison as former President Donald Trump faced numerous felony prosecutions. Although Thompson condemned the assassination attempt Saturday evening on Trump, he didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment on whether he still supports the bill….
    Tyler O’Neil
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    What Biden Posted on X Hours Before Trump Shooting

    Twenty-four hours before the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump’s life in Butler, Pennsylvania, the 2024 presidential election was in full swing. Here’s some of what President Joe Biden was posting on X in the hours before Trump was shot. Biden seemingly likened Trump to a dictator in a post on his personal account…
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    Trump May Have ‘Staged’ Own Shooting, Dem Adviser Tells Reporters

    Dmitri Mehlhorn, the top political adviser to tech entrepreneur and Democratic megadonor Reid Hoffman, pushed reporters to consider Saturday’s attempted assassination on Donald Trump as “encouraged and maybe even staged,” according to a leaked email, Semafor reports. In an email sent to journalists at 7:34 p.m. Saturday, just over an hour after Trump was shot…
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    Sniper Victim at Trump Rally Identified, Died Shielding His Family

    The man who was shot and killed during the assassination attempt on Donald Trump has been identified as former fire chief Corey Comperatore. The Associated Press reports former fire chief’s wife told Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro that Comperatore “dove on his family to protect them.” “Corey was a girl dad. Corey was a firefighter. Corey…
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    Melania Trump Calls Trump Shooter ‘Monster’

    Melania Trump reacted to the shooting of her husband, former President Donald Trump, in a statement Sunday morning in which she called the shooter a “monster.” “A monster who recognized my husband as an inhuman political machine attempted to ring out Donald’s passion – his laughter, ingenuity, love of music, and inspiration,” the former first…
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    Dan Bongino, Former Secret Service Agent, Says Trump Shooting ‘Catastrophic Failure’

    Dan Bongino, the commentator and talk show host who is a former Secret Service agent, says Saturday night’s shooting at President Donald Trump’s rally, was a “catastrophic failure” of the Secret Service. “This is an obviously catastrophic failure and NO excuses should be made, or even attempted,” Bongino posted on X. “The failures are profound…
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    Tested by Fire: The 2 Seconds That Define Donald Trump

    How many men have faced the crucible of a near-death experience and came out triumphant? America just watched Donald Trump’s great moment of testing and saw him prove his mettle. When we tell our children about the assassination attempt on Trump’s life in Butler, Pennsylvania, on July 13, 2024, we will remember the moment when…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    Secret Service Director Faces Questions After Attempted Assassination of Trump

    The director of the U.S. Secret Service is facing heightened scrutiny following Saturday’s assassination attempt of former President Donald Trump. An eyewitness at the Trump rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, told the BBC that he warned police about the gunman before Trump was shot at approximately 6:15 p.m. The interview, which was shared widely on social…
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    Elon Musk Endorses Trump, Calls for Head of Secret Service to Resign Following Shooting

    Billionaire entrepreneur and social media maven Elon Musk endorsed Donald Trump on Saturday evening following the assassination attempt on the former president at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.  “I fully endorse President Trump and hope for his rapid recovery,” Musk posted on his social media platform X about 35 minutes later, embedding a video…
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    Ex-Biden Counterterror Official Claims Trump Supporters Pose a Threat of Violence After Trump Shooting

    A CBS News anchor and a former counterterrorism official in the Biden administration condemned former President Donald Trump and Republicans in the wake of the shooting that left Trump wounded Saturday night. CBS anchor Margaret Brennan condemned Trump for insufficiently “lowering the temperature” in his statement following the shooting. “This was a traumatic event no…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    Liberal Media’s DESPICABLE Coverage of Trump’s Attempted Assassination

    Several liberal media outlets made the choice Saturday evening to display absolute degeneracy when covering the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump in Pennsylvania. Now, not all of the left-leaning outlets did this. ABC News, CBS News, NBC News, and others reported correctly, along with center, independent, and right-leaning sources, that Trump was shot and…
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    What Former Presidents Had to Say on Trump Assassination Attempt

    Donald Trump’s living predecessors denounced the assassination attempt on the 45th president Saturday evening. “There is absolutely no place for political violence in our democracy,” former President Barack Obama, a Democrat who served two terms just before Trump’s one term, posted on X.  “Although we don’t yet know exactly what happened, we should all be…
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    Trump Potential VPs React to Attempted Assassination: ‘Not Just Some Isolated Incident’

    A number of President Donald Trump’s potential vice presidential picks weighed in Saturday evening on news that a shooter apparently attempted to assassinate the presidential candidate. “Today is not just some isolated incident,” said Republican Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance in a statement posted on X. “The central premise of the Biden campaign is that President…
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    TRUMP BREAKS SILENCE AFTER SHOOTING: ‘Much Bleeding Took Place’

    Former President Donald Trump spoke out Saturday evening after an attempt was made on his life at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania. The presidential candidate posted on Truth Social Saturday evening, thanking the Secret Service for protecting him and expressing sorrow at the reported death of an attendee. “I want to thank The United States…
    Katrina Trinko
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    ‘Everybody Must Condemn It’: Biden on Assassination Attempt on Rival Trump

    President Joe Biden’s White House issued a statement Saturday night condemning the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump. “I have been briefed on the shooting at Donald Trump’s rally in Pennsylvania,” the president said in a statement, released about an hour after the initial news of the shooting broke. “I’m grateful to hear that…
    Mary Margaret Olohan
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