{"id":2253,"date":"2024-07-15T07:20:59","date_gmt":"2024-07-15T07:20:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/attajdidnews.com.ng\/?p=2253"},"modified":"2024-07-15T07:48:42","modified_gmt":"2024-07-15T07:48:42","slug":"breaking-ex-us-president-donald-trump-escapes-assassination-attempt-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/attajdidnews.com.ng\/?p=2253","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Ex-US President Donald Trump escapes assassination attempt [Video]"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">BREAKING: \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 Former President Donald Trump shot at rally. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/SnQe62Vu4d\">pic.twitter.com\/SnQe62Vu4d<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Watcher.Guru (@WatcherGuru) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WatcherGuru\/status\/1812251989759418579?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 13, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Ex-President of the United States of America, Donald Trump has escaped an assassination attempt during a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Trump who is seeking a second term in the upcoming general election in the country was shot in the side of his head on Saturday, shot on, but he was rushed offstage and appeared defiant, pumping his fist as seen in the now-viral video shared on social media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There have been no confirmed reports of any other individuals involved in the assassination attempt or injured during the incident as of press time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, his campaign has released a statement saying he is \u201cfine\u201d and being assessed at a medical facility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The incident has led to an outpouring of support for Trump and condemnation of the assassination attempt from Florida leaders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a post on X, Chuck Schumer, the US Senate majority leader said he is \u201chorrified by what happened at the Trump rally in Pennsylvania and relieved that former President Trump is safe\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cPolitical violence has no place in our country,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m praying for the safety of every single person,\u201d posted Orlando-area Rep. Maxwell Alejandro Frost to X. \u201cPolitical violence is disgusting and should be fiercely condemned.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Other politicians, like Gov. Ron DeSantis, also offered well wishes to the former president.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ex-President of the United States of America, Donald Trump has escaped an assassination attempt during a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania Trump who is seeking a second term in the upcoming general election in the country was shot in the side of his head on Saturday, shot on, but he was rushed offstage and appeared [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2254,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2253","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-international-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/attajdidnews.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/attajdidnews.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/attajdidnews.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/attajdidnews.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/attajdidnews.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2253"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/attajdidnews.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2255,"href":"https:\/\/attajdidnews.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2253\/revisions\/2255"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/attajdidnews.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/attajdidnews.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/attajdidnews.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/attajdidnews.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}