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Sources are reporting that a local law enforcement officer encountered the gunman who opened fire at Donald Trump's Pennsylvania rally just moments before he fired at the former president. The official says rallygoers alerted officers to the man who had climbed onto the roof, but when an officer climbed up, he pointed his rifle at the officer. Correspondent Evan Lambert joins "NewsNation Now" with the latest as details continue to emerge from the investigation into the assassination attempt.

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Pray for President Trump. Pray for America.

President Trump is determined to save this country from the path of ruin that we are on. No politician in our country's history has ever faced these kinds of efforts to stop him. They tried to impeach him. They are trying to imprison him. Now, they have tried to assassinate him. Every time they do this, the American people become more committed to the vision for the country that he has for our success and our prosperity.

Ben Thompson Strips Trump of Secret Service Protection

In April 2024, Representative Bennie Thompson, the ranking member of the House Committee on Homeland Security, introduced a bill to deny Secret Service protection to former President Donald Trump if he is convicted of a felony. The bill, known as the Denying Infinite Security and Government Resources Allocated toward Convicted and Extremely Dishonorable (DISGRACED) Former Protectees Act (HR 8081), aimed to reform the U.S. Secret Service’s protective mission by automatically terminating Secret Service protections for those who have been sentenced to prison following conviction for a Federal or State felony.

Thompson’s proposal came months before an assassination attempt on Trump at a Pennsylvania rally on Saturday, where he was shot in the ear. The incident highlights the importance of the Secret Service’s protective mission and the potential consequences of stripping a former president of their protection.

Background

In the months leading up to the assassination attempt, Thompson had expressed intentions to terminate Trump’s Secret Service protection if a felony conviction resulted in a prison sentence. Trump was originally scheduled to be sentenced in a Manhattan hush money case on July 11, two days before the assassination attempt.

Reactions

After the assassination attempt, Thompson tweeted a response, stating, “There is no room in American democracy for political violence." I am grateful for law enforcement’s fast response to this incident. I am glad the former President is safe, and my thoughts and prayers go out to everyone involved.”

The incident has sparked renewed debate about the importance of the Secret Service’s protective mission and the potential consequences of stripping the former President of their protection.

Donald Trump Survives Assassination Attempt at Rally, with Lowry, Sexton, Prager, Bolling, and More

Megyn Kelly covers the shocking breaking news of former President Donald Trump surviving an assassination attempt at a campaign rally today in Pennsylvania. Megyn brings the latest information - that Trump was hit with a bullet in his right ear, was bloodied, but got up and fist-pumped into the crowd before leaving the stage, and that he has now been cleared to leave the hospital. Also, that one person in the crowd behind Trump died as a result of the gunfire, at least another rallygoer is in serious condition, and the shooter was shot dead as well. Megyn is joined by Rich Lowry, Buck Sexton, Eric Bolling, Bill Stanton, Jesse Kelly, and Dennis Prager to talk about the massive ramifications of this horrific event, the overheated rhetoric that has surrounded Trump from the left, the security failures that surely will be studied, the political fallout, how this could have been so much worse if the bullet came just inches in another direction, the attempt to bothsides political violence by the left and media, what happens next in the campaign and in America, and more.

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