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FBI confirms Trump shooting as ‘assassination attempt’

By Reuters 14 July 2024, 7:11 am
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Law enforcement stand guard outside of Trump Tower in New York City, after former US president Donald Trump was injured when shots were fired at a rally in Pennsylvania on July 13, 2024. (Adam Gray / AFP)
Law enforcement stand guard outside of Trump Tower in New York City, after former US president Donald Trump was injured when shots were fired at a rally in Pennsylvania on July 13, 2024. (Adam Gray / AFP)

BUTLER — The shooting that wounded Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump on Saturday was an assassination attempt, the FBI confirms in a late night press conference.

“This evening we had what we are calling an assassination attempt against our former president Donald Trump,” Special Agent Kevin Rojek tells reporters in Butler, Pennsylvania, where Trump was holding a rally when shots rang out.

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