Donald Trump escapes assassination bid at US campaign rally
Al Jazeera
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has been wounded in the right ear in an assassination bid by a gunman at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania, drawing condemnation from world leaders.
The 78-year-old former president was rushed off stage, with blood streaked across his face after the shooting in Butler City on Saturday while the suspected shooter and a rally attendee were killed and two spectators critically injured.
Trump raised a defiant fist to the crowd as he was bundled away to safety, and said afterwards: “I was shot with a bullet that pierced the upper part of my right ear.”
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) confirmed in a news conference that the shooting was being treated as “an assassination attempt”.
It identified 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks as the “subject involved” in the assassination attempt, the FBI said in a statement on Sunday.
