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Former President Donald Trump, surrounded by U.S. Secret Service agents, pumps his first after shots were fired at his rally in Butler, Pa. on July 13, 2024. 

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Trump survives attack in Pennsylvania, shooter dead

Shooter confirmed dead.

A bloody former President Donald Trump shook his fist into the air to show his supporters he was only wounded in an attempted assassination targeting him at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania. The shooter was shot and killed by U.S. Secret Service, but authorities would not confirm details late Saturday night.

The presumed Republican candidate for president this November was speaking at a campaign rally in Butler, Pa., when video of the event showed multiple loud shots and Trump grabbing at his right ear, followed by obvious blood around the ear. Campaign security quickly surrounded Trump and lowered him to the podium floor.

Law enforcement stormed the stage, while Trump slowly rose to his feet allowing the crowd to see the blood coming from the top of his right ear.

Trump began gesturing to the crowd while being escorted off stage, yelling “fight, fight!.” His supporters cheered back. Trump later said a bullet pierced his upper ear, as video of the event confirmed.

Secret Service members protecting Trump could be seen saying “shooter’s down,” indicating that someone who had fired at Trump was no longer a threat. The shooter was later confirmed dead. U.S. Secret Service Chief of Communications Anthony Guglielmi said a person fired multiple shots toward the stage from an elevated position outside of the rally venue. Secret Service agents later confirmed they killed the shooter.

Guglielmi said one spectator was dead and two others in attendance were in critical condition.

The Butler County District Attorney confirmed to media that the shooter was dead.

Trump’s campaign posted a statement from the former president.

“I want to thank the United States Secret Service, and all of Law Enforcement, for their rapid response on the shooting that just took place in Butler, Pennsylvania. Most importantly, I want to send 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. It is incredible that such an act can happen in our Country,” the statement read. “Nothing is known at this time about the shooter, who is now dead. I was shot with a bullet that pierced the upper part of my ear. I knew immediately something was wrong in that I heard a whizzing sound, shots, and immediately felt the bullet ripping through the skin. Much bleeding took place, so I realized then what was happening. GOD BLESS AMERICA!”

The Trump campaign said the former president is being treated at a local hospital but is OK. A Washington Post reporter said “Butler county district attorney Richard Goldinger tells me Trump was grazed by gunfire but is safe. An audience member was killed and the shooter is dead. Another person is in serious condition, the prosecutor said.”

Anthony Gugliemi, chief of communications for the Secret Service, released a statement at 8:49 p.m. on Saturday.

“During former President Trump’s campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, on the evening of July 13th at approximately 6:15 p.m., a suspected shooter fired multiple shots toward the stage from an elevated position outside of the rally venue. U.S. Secret Service quickly responded with protective measures and the former president is safe and being evaluated. One spectator was killed, two spectators were critically injured. The incident is under investigation and Secret Service has formally notified the Federal Bureau of Investigation.”

The attack occurred just two days before the start of the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, where GOP delegates will formally designate Trump as their presidential candidate to take on President Joe Biden in November. The Trump campaign said Saturday that the former president still plans to attend.

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Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev described fossil fuels as a “gift of God,” slammed the “Western fake news” media for criticizing his country’s emissions and stated that countries like his “should not be blamed” for developing their reserves of natural resources and bringing them to the market. The U.N. conference — also known as COP29 — has attracted tens of thousands of attendees to the Azerbaijani capital Baku to discuss initiatives like so-called “climate finance” for developing countries, standards for carbon credit markets and emissions reduction commitments.

Aliyev rattled off statistics about Azerbaijan’s relatively small contributions to global oil and gas production before criticizing the media, politicians and nonprofits for maligning his country for capitalizing on its natural resources.

“I have to bring these figures to the attention of our audience, because right after Azerbaijan was elected as the host country of COP29, we became a target of a coordinated, well-orchestrated campaign of slander and blackmail,” said Aliyev. “Western fake news media and so-called independent NGOs, as if (they) were competing in spreading disinformation and false information about our country. To accuse us that we have oil is the same like to accuse us that we have more than 250 sunny days a year in Baku.”

Aliyev emphasized his view that there are many criteria by which to judge a country, but a nation’s resources and their sale are not one of them.

“I said it several months ago, and now all those who want, I mean international media, to attack me, just quote me that I said that this is a gift of God. And I want to repeat it today here at this audience, it’s a gift of God,” Aliyev said. “Every natural resource, whether it’s oil, gas, wind, sun, gold, silver, copper, all that are natural resources and countries should not be blamed for having them and should not be blamed for bringing these resources to the market because the market needs them.”

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“Unfortunately, double standards, a habit to lecture other countries and political hypocrisy became a kind of modus operandi for some politicians, state-controlled NGOs and fake news media in some Western countries,” said Aliyev.

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Federal probes, said U.S. Rep. Richard Hudson, R-N.C., are coming. Political signs were among what is described as community trends leading to the skips.

“This is infuriating,” Hudson wrote on social media late Tuesday afternoon. “We will ensure those responsible for this un-American abuse of power are held accountable. Investigations are coming.”

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Washington says she’s unfairly singled out, and that incident reports for disaster survivor assistance crews will offer vindication.

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“Senior leadership will lie to you and tell you that they do not know but if you ask the DSA crew leads and specialists what they are experiencing in the field, they will tell you. Demand for FEMA to give you those incident reports.”

Washington, a Californian, told Martin she did not vote this election cycle, citing the high demand for her to go and work as a reservist for FEMA. She was subsequently fired, effective immediately, from her full-time job with Avanath.

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