FBI probing Trump shooting as ‘domestic terrorism’ as RNC opens
Al Jazeera
Evidence thus far points to the suspect acting alone, says the FBI, but it has yet to identify a motive.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is continuing to scour over evidence in the attack on former United States President Donald Trump, which it is now investigating as “domestic terrorism”, the agency said in a statement.
Trump, speaking at a Saturday campaign rally in Pennsylvania, was shot in the right ear by an attacker perched on a rooftop outside the venue, in the first assassination attempt on a US presidential figure in more than four decades.
Trump escaped the attack with no serious injury, showing the crowd a raised fist before being whisked away by the Secret Service. But the attacker’s bullets killed a rally attendee and injured two others in the crowd.
