Kimberly Cheatle rebuffed the demands she resign US Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle acknowledged on Monday that the agency failed in its mission to prevent the assassination attempt on former president Donald Trump. “The Secret Service’s solemn mission is to protect our nation’s leaders,” Ms Cheatle said during testimony before the House Committee on Oversight
The Secret Service is responsible for the safety of the President. (File) Washington: The US Department of Homeland Security’s inspector general said Wednesday that it is investigating the Secret Service’s handling of security at the campaign rally where a gunman tried to assassinate former president Donald Trump. The office of DHS inspector general Joseph Cuffari
Biden narrowly won Nevada in his 2020 election victory over Trump. (File) Las Vegas: President Joe Biden hits the campaign trail Tuesday for the first time since the assassination attempt against Donald Trump, seeking a balance between criticizing his rival while heeding his own calls to cool down American politics. As Trump rides a wave
Trump Rally Shooting Visualization Study. Photo : AP KEY HIGHLIGHTS The visualization study vividly captured the moment Trump avoided a potentially fatal bullet during the Butler, Pennsylvania event. Trump attributed his life-saving dodge to glancing at the Jumbotron, which displayed illegal immigration numbers. The shooter, Thomas Matthew Crooks, a 20-year-old nursing facility employee, was killed
Reuters has fact-checked some of the most widely shared narratives online. (File) Misinformation and conspiracy theories were spreading online after an assassination attempt on former U.S. President Donald Trump at a campaign rally on Saturday. Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20, was alleged to have shot at the Republican presidential candidate from a rooftop during the rally
“We understand the importance of the independent review,” says Kimberly Cheatle (File) Washington: Under growing pressure for a massive security failure, the US Secret Service on Monday vowed to cooperate with an independent review after a shooter was allowed to open fire on Donald Trump. The 78-year-old former president was injured but survived an assassination
It is tempting to draw grand conclusions from the assassination attempt on former president Donald Trump this weekend. The coarse rhetoric currently in vogue in American politics, not to mention the Capitol riot on January 6, 2021, provide plenty of fodder for this kind of speculation. In reality, the shooting, while horrible, does not come
Thomas Crooks was a 20-year-old resident of Pennsylvania. Over 30 hours after a bullet pierced Donald Trump’s ear at a rally ahead of the US’ biggest election, the motive behind the high-profile assassination attempt remains unknown. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has begun probing the incident as a “potential domestic terrorism act”. Thomas Crooks,
The shots fired at Donald Trump at a rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday are being investigated as an assassination attempt of the former president and current Republican presidential nominee. Assassination attempts on presidents and presidential nominees are littered throughout American history. What happened in Pennsylvania is horrifying, but sadly not surprising. I’ve been really struck
Trump is now galvanizing his supporters by exhibiting defiant resilience. Donald Trump’s convention speech will now focus on unity – and not aimed at President Joe Biden’s policies – after the assassination attempt that he believes has changed the election discourse. Images showing Trump with a bloodied face after the attack have sparked a wave
Thomas Crooks slipped onto a rooftop near where Trump was speaking and began firing. Bethel Park, Pennsylvania: The portrait pieced together so far of the 20-year-old nursing home aide who allegedly tried to assassinate Donald Trump at an election rally reveals frustratingly little about why he would make such an attempt – or how he
Joe Biden during his Oval speech on Sunday Photo : AP President Joe Biden‘s Oval Office address on Sunday left several viewers puzzled when he mistakenly referred to the ‘ballot box’ as the ‘battle box.’ During his speech, he addressed the recent assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump and urged the nation to stay