Trump rebrand: Republican presidential candidate recounts shooting details but skips policy details
Inside the Milwaukee arena, Donald Trump was “an American folk hero” and “strong commander in chief,” alive because of a “miracle.” To the left, he remains a threat to democracy, with authoritarian designs.
Defiant Biden now said to be seriously considering pulling out of US presidential race
Democratic Senator John Hickenlooper of Colorado said he believed that Biden was working toward a decision on whether to stay in the presidential race and would opt for what is good for the country.
‘Tuna bond’ scandal that spurred $2 billion debt crisis in Mozambique economy lands ex-finance minister in US court
A key prosecution witness was on the stand on Wednesday as Chang followed along closely via a Portuguese language interpreter. Between 2013 and 2016, three Mozambican-government-controlled companies quietly borrowed $2 billion from major overseas banks – and the government, with Chang’s signature, assured repayment.
Beware of introvert in your neighbourhood: Trump gunman Thomas Crooks lived like a harmless, innocent and top grade student
Thomas Crooks, an introverted 20-year-old computer whiz who had just earned a spot at a college engineering programme, turned back to his target about 400 feet away. He squeezed off several shots at Trump, clipping the former president’s ear, killing an audience member and wounding two others before Secret Service snipers on a nearby building killed him with counterfire.
Influential Democrats step up pressure on President Biden to quite re-election race
President Joe Biden has repeatedly rejected calls from Democrats to drop out of the race after his halting performance in a debate last month against Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump.
From comparing Trump to Adolf Hitler, JD Vance to become Republicans’ his loudest ‘Trumpet’
Vance, a graduate of Yale Law School and a former venture capitalist, is now well positioned to help mould Trump’s often scattershot vision into something coherent for the future, he said.
Republicans and Democrats bat conspiracies on Trump assassination attempt as FBI investigate motive
In conspiracy channels online, many Trump supporters pointed to an interview with a witness who saw the gunman climbing onto the roof with a rifle and told police about it minutes before the shooting. Law enforcement’s failure to act, posters claimed, is a sign that the apparent assassination attempt was coordinated by the “deep state.”
Republicans pin rising political violence on Democrats, but data show Trump’s speeches are violent
The US is embroiled in the most sustained spate of political violence since a decade of upheaval that began in the late 1960s, Reuters found in that report published last year. That violence has come from across the ideological spectrum, and includes extensive attacks on property during left-wing political demonstrations. But attacks on people – from beatings to killings – were perpetrated mostly by suspects acting in service of right-wing political beliefs and ideology.
Trump aborted assassination: Biden says ‘everybody must condemn’ attack on ex-president and Republican candidate
President Joe Biden delivered remarks from the White House’s emergency briefing room in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, which is set up whenever the president travels to allow him to deliver remarks to the country in a matter of minutes. He was spending the weekend at his beach home and was at a nearby church for mass when the shooting occurred.
FBI terms Trump rally shooting ‘assassination’ attempt as security reports kiling gunman
Donald Trump, who served as president from 2017-2021, easily bested his rivals for the Republican nomination early in the campaign and has largely unified around him the party that had briefly wavered in support after his supporters attacked the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, attempting to overturn his 2020 election defeat.
