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MILWAUKEE — A grateful Donald Trump was in Milwaukee on Monday to make final preparations for the Republican presidential nomination later this week after narrowly escaping an assassination attempt that he said presented an opportunity to bring the country together. Trump, 78, was holding a campaign rally on Saturday in Butler, Pennsylvania – a key state in the Nov. 5 election – when a 20-year-old man with an AR-15-style rifle got close enough to shoot at the former Republican president from a rooftop.

One shot hit Trump’s upper right ear, leaving his face streaked with blood, but he was not severely wounded. His campaign said he was doing fine. “That reality is just setting in,” Trump told the Washington Examiner on Sunday.



“I rarely look away from the crowd. Had I not done that in that moment, well, we would not be talking today, would we?” One person in the crowd was killed and two others wounded before Secret Service agents fatally shot the suspect. In their remarks on Sunday, both Trump and President Joe Biden counseled calm and unity, aiming to lower temperatures in a country whose a deep political divide has grown even more pronounced during the presidential race.

Biden delivered a televised address from the Oval Office in the White House on Sunday. “There is no place in America for this kind of violence, for any violence ever. Period.

No exceptions,” “We can’t allow this violence to be normalized,” he said. “The political rhetoric in this c.

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