Former President Donald Trump has returned to his home in New Jersey after he was injured in an attempted assassination at a rally on Saturday in Butler, Pennsylvania, according to BBC reports.
Shots rang out as Trump was speaking at the event in Pennsylvania, sparking panic in the crowd as Secret Service agents swarmed the former president
Trump, who emerged with a bloodied face, says he was shot in the ear, describing a “whizzing sound” and feeling a bullet ripping through skin”
The FBI has identified the gunman as 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks – he was shot and killed by the Secret Service
One spectator was killed at the rally and two others were critically injured.
Founded on January 22, 1995, THISDAY is published by THISDAY NEWSPAPERS LTD., 35 Creek Road Apapa, Lagos, Nigeria with offices in 36 states of Nigeria , the Federal Capital Territory and around the world. It is Nigeria’s most authoritative news media available on all platforms for the political, business, professional and diplomatic elite and broader middle classes while serving as the meeting point of new ideas, culture and technology for the aspirationals and millennials. The newspaper is a public trust dedicated to the pursuit of truth and reason covering a range of issues from breaking news to politics, business, the markets, the arts, sports and community to the crossroads of people and society.
You can email us at: hello@thisdaylive.com or visit our contact us page.