Donald Trump, who was injured in what authorities are calling an assassination attempt Saturday, touched down in Milwaukee Sunday evening after calling for Americans to unite as his party prepared to officially nominate him this week at the Republican National Convention.<\/p>\n
\u201cBased on yesterday\u2019s terrible events, I was going to delay my trip to Wisconsin, and The Republican National Convention, by two days, but have just decided that I cannot allow a \u2018shooter,\u2019 or potential assassin, to force change to scheduling, or anything else,\u201d Trump posted Sunday on his social media site Truth Social.<\/p>\n
Trump landed in Milwaukee Sunday shortly before President Biden addressed the nation from the Oval Office, who urged Americans to settle their differences at the ballot box.<\/p>\n
\u201cDisagreement is inevitable in American democracy,\u201d Biden said. \u201cIt\u2019s part of human nature. But politics must never be a literal battlefield \u2014 God forbid a killing field. I believe politics ought to be an arena for peaceful debate.\u201d<\/p>\n
Trump has not made any public remarks since the Secret Service rushed him offstage shortly after shots were fired at his rally in Butler, Pa., around 6:12 p.m. on Saturday. But on social media Sunday, he said he looked forward to addressing the country from Wisconsin. His most recent social media posts echo statements from campaign officials that the Republican National Convention, slated to begin Monday, will go on as planned.<\/p>\n
Trump\u2019s plane arrived at Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey early Sunday after the shooting, according to flight records. In Bedminster, N.J., police guarded the entrance to his golf club and residence, prohibiting any vehicle from idling anywhere near the gate. The officers directed press to the parking lot of a library nearly four miles from the entrance of Trump National Golf Club Bedminster.<\/p>\n
A driver in a red convertible with its top down and a pair of American flags perched on top of it cruised by and honked at the scattering of media.<\/p>\n
The FBI is investigating the Saturday evening shooting at Trump\u2019s campaign rally as an assassination attempt and have identified the suspected gunman as 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks of Bethel Park, Pa. Trump said he was struck in his right ear, and officials said one attendee was killed and two others were critically injured.<\/p>\n
Trump\u2019s campaign increased security Saturday night, and political leaders urged one another to dial back heated political rhetoric. Top Trump advisers told staffers to stay away from the campaign\u2019s offices in Washington and West Palm Beach on Sunday as security at those locations was assessed.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are enhancing the armed security presence with 24\/7 officers on-site. Additional security assessments will be in place,\u201d Trump campaign advisers Chris LaCivita and Susie Wiles wrote in a joint memo obtained by The Washington Post and first reported by Politico.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe also urge you to recognize the political polarization in this heated election,\u201d they added. \u201cIf something looks or feels off, please flag it immediately for leadership or an on-site security team.\u201d<\/p>\n
LaCivita and Wiles also advised staffers not to comment publicly on the shooting and said the Republican convention would \u201ccontinue as planned.\u201d<\/p>\n
In Bedminster, N.J., Trump loyalists spent the day at a busy intersection about four miles from the former president\u2019s golf club and residence. They waved Trump 2024 flags as drivers blared their horns and as a DJ in the group blasted country tunes and songs with MAGA messaging.<\/p>\n
Miguel Magera, 58, who owns a small business that does home improvement work, said he had planned to go on a ride on Sunday but the day after the Trump rally shooting, he answered a call from an organizer of Trump devotees in the area to meet at the spot they frequent.<\/p>\n
Magera said he switched his plans to come to the rally partly because of the shooting and its impact on him. Magera said he was watching tennis on TV when he flipped to a news program and saw the shocking news, leaving him \u201cdevastated.\u201d<\/p>\n
Terry Beck, 60, organizer of the event, was sitting on a beach towel on the wide lawn behind a public library on Sunday afternoon as Trump prepared to leave the area for the RNC in Milwaukee. Nearly drowned out by the horns and shouting, she recalled running errands and had finished chores at home when she sat down for a break. \u201cAll of a sudden my phone is ringing, ringing, ringing. 87 messages, 55 texts. All of a sudden it was going and going,\u201d Beck said.<\/p>\n
Authorities said they cannot yet speak to the shooter\u2019s motive. As they raced to learn more, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said that Congress would investigate any potential lapses in security that allowed the attack.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn the meantime, we\u2019ve got to turn the rhetoric down,\u201d Johnson urged on NBC\u2019s \u201cToday\u201d show on what he called a \u201csurreal\u201d morning. Like other Republicans, Johnson noted President Biden\u2019s recent call to put Trump in a \u201cbull\u2019s eye\u201d \u2014 saying he knows that Biden \u201cdidn\u2019t mean what is being implied there\u201d but also believes \u201cthat kind of language on either side should be called out.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSo, we\u2019re done talking about the debate, it\u2019s time to put Trump in a bull\u2019s eye,\u201d Biden had told donors.<\/p>\n
Leaders across the political spectrum, including Biden, condemned the rally shooting. Biden\u2019s campaign rushed to take down its television ads afterward.<\/p>\n
Trump\u2019s defiant response to the shooting \u2014 he pumped his fist and shouted \u201cfight!\u201d before being rushed offstage \u2014 triggered deep emotions in his supporters. \u201cI look at him, and I feel proud,\u201d said Patty Harnish, a 58-year-old Dollar General sales associate in Butler, where the rally took place.<\/p>\n
She held up the morning paper. There was Trump on the front page, blood streaking his face, fist raised in the air.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s like: Screw you,\u201d she said as customers trickled into the store Sunday a few miles from where bullets flew at the former president. \u201cI can\u2019t be stopped. I still have another ear.\u201d She\u2019d been surprised by the heft of her emotions, she said, after feeling so disconnected from politicians for decades. She hasn\u2019t cast a vote in 28 years since backing Bill Clinton, she said, and now, \u201cIt\u2019s Trump.\u201d<\/p>\n
Paquette reported from Butler. Jacobs reported from Bedminster. Amy B Wang contributed to this report.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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