“I should be dead,” reacted former US President Donald Trump, after surviving an assassination attempt that he described as “a very surreal experience” in an interview, Sunday July 14, with the New York Post. “The doctor at the hospital said he had never seen anything like it, he called it a miracle,” Donald Trump said again, wearing a white bandage over his right ear, according to the newspaper. Follow the development of the situation in our live feed.
The nation’s leader’s call for calm. President Joe Biden on Sunday called for “lower the temperature” after the assassination attempt on his Republican opponent, saying that politics is not a “Deadly battlefield”. “Violence must not become something normal”the Democrat said in remarks from the Oval Office of the White House. The U.S. presidential election in November will be a “test period”he continued.
Donald Trump has arrived in Milwaukee. The former President of the United States is in Wisconsin (northeast of the country), for the convention of the Republicans who must officially induct him as their presidential candidate. The convention is held in Milwaukee from July 15 to 18.
The assassination attempter acted alone, according to the FBI. The US federal police said on Sunday evening that investigators had not yet “not identified” ideological affiliation for the shooter. The FBI also indicated that it was considering the possibility of a “potential act of domestic terrorism” and specified that the weapon used, a semi-automatic rifle, had been “purchased legally”.
After the shock, calls for unity. Joe Biden and Donald Trump each called on Americans to unite on Sunday, the day after the assassination attempt against the former Republican president. “At this moment, it is more important than ever that we stand united,” said the former president.