{"id":291272,"date":"2024-07-14T06:01:23","date_gmt":"2024-07-14T06:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=291272"},"modified":"2024-07-21T07:30:26","modified_gmt":"2024-07-21T07:30:26","slug":"trump-rally-shooting-ex-president-injured-in-assassination-attempt-at-rally-that-leaves-spectator-and-gunman-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=291272","title":{"rendered":"Trump rally shooting: Ex-president injured in assassination attempt at rally that leaves spectator and gunman dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>James Robinson \u2013 Sky News July 14, 2024<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>Donald Trump has been shot and injured in an assassination attempt at a campaign rally, which saw an audience member and the gunman killed.<\/p>\n<p>The former president escaped with a bullet wound to his ear in the attack, which happened early on Saturday evening as <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/topic\/donald-trump-5711\">the former president <\/a><\/strong>was giving a speech to supporters in Butler, Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<p>The FBI named the attacker as 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks and the Secret Service said he fired &#8220;multiple shots&#8221; from an &#8220;elevated position&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Crooks, who according to state records was a registered Republican, was killed by police snipers.<\/p>\n<p>Two others were also critically injured in the shooting &#8211; all three victims were men.<\/p>\n<p>Trump, who ducked below the podium as the shooting began, said a bullet pierced the upper part of his ear.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I knew immediately that something was wrong in that I heard a whizzing sound, shots, and immediately felt the bullet ripping through the skin,&#8221; he said on social media.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Much bleeding took place, so I realised then what was happening.<\/p>\n<p data-role=\"ad-label\"><span data-label-text=\"Advertisement\">&#8220;I want to thank The United States Secret Service, and all of law enforcement, for their rapid response,&#8221; Trump added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;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.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is incredible that such an act can take place in our country.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/shots-fired-at-donald-trump-rally-as-former-president-rushed-off-stage-13177651\">Continues \u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump had a narrow escape when a bullet passed through his ear. While the sniper, who was killed by police, has been named as Thomas Matthew Crooks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":291273,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-291272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trump-attepted-assassination"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=291272"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":291274,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291272\/revisions\/291274"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/291273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=291272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=291272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=291272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}