Secret Service Director Faces Calls to Resign After Shooting at Trump Rally
Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle is facing calls to resign following the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump at a rally on Saturday. Sheetal was PepsiCo’s senior director of global security and has served as the current director of the U.S. Secret Service since September 2022. WebsiteDuring his time at PepsiCo, Cheatle was reportedly […]
Grateful, defiant Trump recounts ‘surreal’ assassination attempt at rally: ‘I’m supposed to be dead’
A grateful, sometimes defiant Donald Trump told The Post on Sunday that he “should have been dead,” recalling the terrifying moment he was shot by an would-be assassin at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania. The former president, in an interview aboard his private plane on his way to Milwaukee for the Republican National Convention, described […]
Secret Service blames local police, says it was tasked with securing properties surrounding Trump’s Pa. rally
The Secret Service blamed local police for failing to secure the rooftop where suspect Thomas Matthew Crooks tried to assassinate former President Donald Trump, arguing it was outside the perimeter federal agencies are tasked with securing. Instead, security and patrol of the AGR International manufacturing site, about 130 yards from the stage where Trump spoke […]
Doctor and his wife recall chaos at Trump rally in Pennsylvania: ‘Everybody was so upset’
The doctor and his wife appeared on Fox News Channel on Sunday afternoon to talk about their experience at President Trump’s rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday. In a conversation with Martha MacCallum, Dr. James Sweetland recalled how he quickly went to the aid of Corey Comperatore, 50, who was shot at the rally and later […]
Axelrod: Vance's post on Trump rally shooting 'ought to disqualify him'
David Axelrod, a former senior adviser to then-President Barack Obama, said Sunday that Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio)’s handling of the assassination attempt on former President Trump was unbecoming of the vice presidency. “If @JDVance1 is on the running for VP, this tweet, posted one hour after the assassination attempt in Pennsylvania, should disqualify him in […]
Shooter’s perch at Trump rally an ‘obvious threat’: expert
Security experts are questioning why the building where the gunman used its roof as a firing base during Saturday’s assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump was not secured in advance by law enforcement. “It’s a no-brainer,” Kevin Malloy, a retired special agent at the State Department, told Fox News Digital. “Anyone with a national […]
FBI investigating Trump rally assassination attempt as potential act of terrosim
The FBI announced Sunday that it is investigating the assassination attempt against former President Trump as a possible act of terrorism. At a press conference the day after the assassination attempt on the former president, Robert Wells, The FBI’s deputy director of its counterterrorism division said in a statement that the bureau was using “every […]
Johnson after Trump rally shooting: 'Everyone needs to turn the rhetoric down'
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) called on the former president’s opponents to “stay quiet” following the assassination attempt at a Pennsylvania campaign rally. “When you have this constant message that Donald Trump is a threat to democracy and that the republic is going to end, I mean, it’s a heated environment,” Mike Johnson said Sunday […]
Marine veteran David Dutch ID’d as one of the men injured in Trump rally shooting
One of two spectators injured by the gunman who shot and injured former President Donald Trump at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania has been identified as a U.S. Marine Corps veteran. According to the Pennsylvania chapter of the Marine Corps League (MCL), David Duch, 57, of New Kensington, was shot twice on Saturday when Thomas […]
Local police officer encountered Trump rally gunman on roof prior to shooting: AP sources
At a rally for former President Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania on Saturday, local police officers encountered a gunman on a nearby roof but retreated down a ladder after the gunman pointed a rifle at the officers, police officials said. He told the Associated Press. Protesters noticed a man climbing onto the roof of a […]