WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden on Sunday appealed for the country to “unite as one nation” after Saturday’s attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump and said he was ordering an independent security review of the lead-up to the attack. Biden delivered brief remarks from the White House after receiving a briefing on the investigation in the Situation Room. He said he has directed the probe to be “thorough and swift,” and asked the country not to “make assumptions” about the perpetrator’s motives or affiliations.
Biden said he has also directed the U.S. Secret Service to review all security measures for the Republican National Convention which begins Monday in Milwaukee.
Biden plans to deliver extended remarks to the nation Sunday evening in a prime-time address from the Oval Office. Biden said he and Jill Biden were praying for the family of the person killed at the rally. “He was a father,” Biden said.
“He was protecting his family from the bullets were being fired. God love him.” The president said he had a “short but good conversation” with Trump on Saturday evening and that he was sincerely grateful that Trump is “doing well and recovering.
” Biden says: “There’s no place in America for this kind of violence, or any violence for that matter.” Biden quickly denounced the shooting and talked to Trump in its aftermath. His campaign team, meanwhile, is grappling with how to manage the political implications of an attack o.
