Donald Trump Officially Becomes the Republican Nominee For President

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell faced a flurry of boos Monday at the Republican National Convention when he stood on behalf of Kentucky to send the state’s delegates to Donald Trump.

President Joe Biden’s campaign chair responded to Vance’s selection as Trump’s running mate by saying Vance “will do what Mike Pence wouldn’t on January 6: bend over backwards to enable Trump and his extreme MAGA agenda, even if it means breaking the law and no matter the harm to the American people.”

FBI says it has gained access to cellphone of suspect in assassination attempt against Donald Trump

Elon Musk congratulated JD Vance on becoming Trump's VP nominee. “Congratulations JD Vance1! Excellent decision by Donald Trump,” he posted on X. 

Donald Trump officially becomes the Republican nominee for president

Trump picks Sen. JD Vance of Ohio, a once-fierce critic turned loyal ally, as his Republican running mate

Trump’s son, Eric Trump, says he’ll cast the vote declaring his father the Republican nominee

Florida Sen. Marco Rubio has been told that he will not be chosen as Donald Trump's Republican running mate, an AP source says.

The federal judge presiding over the classified documents case against former President Donald Trump in Florida dismissed the prosecution on Monday, siding with defence lawyers who said the special counsel who filed the charges was illegally appointed by the Justice Department.

The decision by US District Judge Aileen Cannon, which can be appealed and may later be overturned by a higher court, brings at least for now a stunning and abrupt conclusion to a criminal case that at the time it was filed was widely regarded as the most perilous of all the legal threats the Republican former president confronted.

Though the case had long been stalled, and the prospect of a trial before the November election already was an unrealistic scenario, the judge's order is a mammoth legal victory for Trump as he recovers from a weekend assassination attempt and prepares to accept the Republican nomination in Milwaukee this week.

A defiant Donald Trump, having just survived an attempted assassination, enters the Republican National Convention having not yet announced his vice presidential pick — but he said he'd make that choice on Monday.

It remains unclear whether the shooting Saturday at his Pennsylvania rally has changed the former president's thinking about his potential second-in-command. He told Fox News Channel host Bret Baier in a call that he planned to make his pick on Monday.

After the shooting, Trump's choice carries considerably more gravity. If a bullet had struck just a little bit to the right, Trump likely would have been killed or seriously injured.

Trump calls for independent presidential candidate Robert F Kennedy Jr to get Secret Service protection

After the assassination attempt on former US President Donald Trump, the Trump Media surged on the first day of trading following the attack. Shares in the owner of social networking site Truth Social soared more than 35 per cent in early trading. Additionally, on Monday, a federal judge presiding over Trump's classified documents trial in Florida dismissed the case because she was concerned over the appointment of the special prosecutor who brought the case. 

Meanwhile, the US Secret Service is investigating how a gunman armed with an AR-style rifle was able to get on a nearby roof and shoot and injure the former president at a rally Saturday in Pennsylvania. The gunman, who officials said was killed by the Secret Service, fired multiple shots at the stage from an “elevated position outside of the rally venue”, the agency said. Trump was bloodied and said he was “shot with a bullet that pierced the upper part of my right ear”. A spectator was killed.

US President Joe Biden on Monday said that the power to change America should reside with its people, not with a “would-be assassin.”

Former US President and Republican nominee for the November Presidential elections, Donald Trump is likely to announce his vice-presidential pick today, claims report. 

On Trainee IAS Officer Puja Khedkar, Shrimati Kashibai Navale Medical College and General Hospital, Director Arvind Bhore said, "She took admission in 2007. She got admission through CET, where she gave some certificates of reservation. She had submitted the caste certificate, caste validity and non-creamy layer certificate. She also submitted the certificate of medical fitness which does not mention any disability there."

Trainee IAS Puja Khedkar’s two different certificates, issued in 2007 and 2022, were found to be contradictory, claims reports. In the curious case of Puja Khedkar's certificates, the 2007 certificate of the trainee IAS says she is 'medically fit', while the 2022 certificate says she is medically unfit with disability in her leg. 
 

On various allegations, Trainee IAS officer Puja Khedkar said, "I will testify in front of the expert committee and we will accept the decision of the committee. I do not have the right to tell you about the investigation going on. Whatever submission I have, will become public later. Our Indian Constitution is based on the fact 'Innocent until proven guilty' so proving me guilty by media trial is wrong."

US court junks classified documents case against Donald Trump, says ruling prosecutor 'unlawfully appointed'

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has admitted the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump on Saturday was “a failure” of security.

The Secret Service's chief said the agency has implemented changes to Trump's security detail since Saturday to ensure his protection during the convention and the remainder of the campaign. Trump said a bullet grazed his ear during the Saturday rally but that he is doing fine. He travelled to Milwaukee on Sunday and is expected to receive his party's formal nomination later this week.

The US Secret Service chief, in her first public statement on Monday, said the agency would participate fully in probes announced by President Joe Biden and members of Congress after its agents failed to prevent a gunman from shooting and injuring former President Donald Trump over the weekend. 

Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle said the agency was increasing security for Republican presidential candidate Trump and the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, which kicks off on Monday. "I am confident in the security plan our Secret Service RNC coordinator and our partners have put in place, which we have reviewed and strengthened in the wake of Saturday's shooting," Cheatle said in a statement.

She said the agency has implemented changes to Trump's security detail since Saturday to ensure his protection during the convention and the remainder of the campaign. Trump said a bullet grazed his ear during the Saturday rally but that he is doing fine. He travelled to Milwaukee on Sunday and is expected to receive his party's formal nomination later this week.

The US Secret Service said on Monday it would completely participate in the probes announced by President Joe Biden and members of Congress after its agents failed to prevent a gunman from shooting and injuring former President Donald Trump over the weekend. 

The U.S. Secret Service has added additional security to former President Donald Trump's detail ahead of the Republican National Convention, the agency’s director, Kimberly Cheatle, said in a statement on Monday.

Trump Media & Technology, Apple among Monday’s biggest premarket movers

Britain’s King Charles III has written to U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump after an assassination attempt on the former president during an election rally in the United States, Buckingham Palace said.

The British monarch’s letter, the contents of which have not been disclosed by the palace, was delivered soon after by the U.K. Embassy in Washington DC.

In 2019, then as Prince of Wales, the royal hosted then President Trump and his wife Melania for afternoon tea at his Clarence House residence during a North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) summit in London.

Former classmate details Trump rally shooter as ‘bullied’ and ‘outcast’ 

The Russian President Vladimir Putin had no plans to contact Former US President Donald Trump after the assassination attempt on him, said Kremlin according to media reports. 

King Charles III wrote privately to former President Donald Trump yesterday after he escaped an assassination attempt, media reports claimed. It further stated that this message was delivered via the British embassy in Washington.

The 20-year-old shooter who made an assassination bid on former US President Donald Trump, was rejected by his school's rifle team for being a ‘comically bad shot’. The shooter, identified as Thomas Matthew Crooks, had fired multiple shots aimed at Trump during his rally in Pennsylvania; a bullet grazed Trump's ear, leaving him bloodied.

The FBI will probe Trump assassination bid as an act of domestic terror.

In the wake of a shooting incident at Trump's rally in Pennsylvania on Sunday(IST), a former diplomat KP Fabian said the American democracy is witnessing significant polarisation in terms of politics. "We should also recognise that there have been much toxic polarisation," Fabian told ANI.

In the latest development in Donald Trump's assassination attempt, media reports have suggested that the 20-year-old shooter who opened fire at the former's campaign rally in Pennsylvania pointed the rifle at a local policeman, who climbed to the roof to confront him. A leading daily citing officials reported that the officer then retreated down the ladder, and the gunman started firing towards Trump, leaving him injured.

The FBI is hunting to reveal the motive behind the attack on the Trump at a rally in Pennsylvania.

A former FBI agent, Ken Gray, said that shooting incident indicates a 'failure in security. The FBI said it is investigating the shooting as a potential act of "domestic terrorism", although the motive is still unclear. Gray said the shooter's ability to get as close as he did shows there was a "failure in security", and that the FBI is conducting an investigation over whether or not it was sufficient for this kind of rally.

Trump who attended the Republican National Convention on Monday said he will bring the country together.
 

Former US President Donald Trump while speaking to a leading daily said that he was “supposed to be dead" after he survived after an assassination attempt on Sunday. "I'm not supposed to be here, I'm supposed to be dead," said Trump while he was en route Milwaukee for the Republican National Convention where he is set to be confirmed as the party's presidential candidate.

Former United States President Donald Trump safely survived the assassination attempt during his Pennsylvania rally with minor injuries due to the divine intervention of Lord Jagannath, claimed ISKCON, a global Hindu spiritual movement. Radharamn Das, Vice President and Spokesperson at the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), in his post on X said, "Yes, for sure it's a divine intervention. Exactly 48 years ago, Donald Trump saved the Jagannath Rathayatra festival. Today, as the world celebrates the Jagannath Rathayatra festival again, Trump was attacked, and Jagannath returned the favor by saving him."

According to media reports, Trump took precautionary CT scans after being shot at during a campaign event in Pennsylvania 's Butler on Saturday. Though the scan results cleared him, it is not known if some other tests were also performed on him, the report said.

Day after Trump escaped an  assassination attempt, Russia has blamed Joe Biden administration for failing to maintain an environment to avoid political violence. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov while addressing the situation said, “We do not believe that the attempt to eliminate and assassinate Trump was organized by the current authorities. But the atmosphere around candidate Trump ... provoked what America is confronting today."

Many of the more specious claims that surfaced immediately after the shooting sought to blame Trump or his Democratic opponent, President Joe Biden, for the attack.

Some voices on the left quickly proclaimed the shooting to be a false flag concocted by Trump, while some Trump supporters suggested the Secret Service intentionally failed to protect Trump on the White House’s orders.

The Secret Service on Sunday pushed back on claims circulating on social media that Trump's campaign had asked for greater security before Saturday's rally and was told no.

“This is absolutely false,” agency spokesman Anthony Guglielmi wrote Sunday on X. “In fact, we added protective resources & technology & capabilities as part of the increased campaign travel tempo.”

In reality, the shooting, while horrible, does not come as a total surprise in the context of American history or even in the current presidential campaign.

Divisive and extreme political campaigns from both parties are now the norm. Criminal prosecutions of Trump and President Joe Biden’s son Hunter have become politicised. And American voters are more often driven to vote against the other party’s candidate than to vote for their own.

Yes, activists and officials in both parties will try to use the shooting for campaign advantage by tapping into voters’ emotions. Politicians will accentuate the horror of the attempted assassination and declare various phenomena as “existential threats” or use similar apocalyptic language.

But the overall political environment, while uncomfortable, embarrassing and occasionally deeply concerning, is not entirely unprecedented or even an extreme example of American political life.

To put it plainly: American politics has always been a bloody fight.

Tony Perkins, among the most influential Christian conservatives in the Republican Party, was preparing to mount a confrontation with convention planners over his disdain for how debate during the RNC’s platform committee was shut down on Monday, all but eliminating objections to the Trump campaign’s desire to soften language on abortion.

“We live in a violent society. And we run the risk of becoming callous to it. And if we become callous to it, we’re going to have more of it,” Perkins said. “I’m hoping and praying it’s a wake-up call in many ways.”

“So, as a result, I’m stepping back from forcing the issue on the platform,” he added. “More divisiveness would not be healthy.”

Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20, the man identified as the suspected shooter who attacked former US president Donald Trump during an election rally was described as "bullied loner" by his former classmates. Jason Kohler, who claimed to have attended school with Crooks, told reporters, "He was quiet but he was just bullied. He was bullied so much."

The gunman, Thomas Matthew Crooks, who shot former president Donald Trump during an election campaign rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday appeared to have acted alone, according to the FBI statement. The agency is still investigating the matter as a potential "domestic terrorism" act. The counterterrorism division and criminal divisions are working together to determine the motive, a senior official said.

The shots fired at Donald Trump at a rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday are being investigated as an assassination attempt of the former president and current Republican presidential nominee. Assassination attempts on presidents and presidential nominees are littered throughout American history. What happened in Pennsylvania is horrifying, but sadly not surprising. I’ve been really struck by how many senior political figures in the United States came out after the shooting and said political violence has no place in America. US President Joe Biden said violence of this kind is “unheard of” in the US.
 

(The Conversation) It is tempting to draw grand conclusions from the assassination attempt on former president Donald Trump this weekend. The coarse rhetoric currently in vogue in American politics, not to mention the Capitol riot on January 6, 2021, provide plenty of fodder for this kind of speculation. In reality, the shooting, while horrible, does not come as a total surprise in the context of American history or even in the current presidential campaign.

An assassination attempt was made on Donald Trump while he was conducting a rally in Pennsylvania. Multiple gunshots were fired but luckily a bullet just grazed his ear and he was saved. In this horrific incident, one man in the audience lost his life and two others were seriously injured. The victim's daughter has narrated how her father died while saving his family.

An assassination bid on former US President Donald Trump during one of his rallies in Pennsylvania has shocked the world. The Republican presidential candidate, who escaped death closely, was shot at, by a lone shooter who has been identified by the investigative agencies.

A day after Donald Trump escaped an assassination bid at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania's Butler, US President Joe Biden, in a special address from the Oval Office in the White House on Monday (IST), emphasised that “America doesn't rely on bullets to resolve any differences but on ballot boxes.” Read full story here

Following the assassination attempt on Donald Trump, US President Joe Biden addressed the nation on Sunday, stating that violence cannot be normalised at any cost and emphasising that differences in America are “resolved at ballot boxes, not with bullets.” In his Oval Office address Sunday evening, President Joe Biden stated that while some Americans disagree on the country's future, "politics must never be a battlefield." 

Former President Donald Trump has arrived in Milwaukee for the Republican National Convention a day after he was targeted in an attempted assassination at a campaign event. Trump's airplane touched down Sunday, the day before the four-day event kicks off with thousands of Republicans coming together to formally elect him as their 2024 presidential nominee.

A day after Donald Trump escaped an assassination attempt at a rally, the motive of his shooter remains elusive.
 

President Joe Biden warned Sunday of the the risks of political violence in the U.S. after Saturday's attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump, saying, “It's time to cool it down.” In a prime-time national address from the Oval Office, Biden said political passions can run high but “we must never descend into violence.” “There is no place in America for this kind of violence — for any violence. Ever. Period. No exception. We can't allow this violence to be normalized," Biden said.

The Republican National Convention, held every four years, began here on Monday under an unprecedented security cover in the aftermath of a failed assassination attempt on its presumptive presidential nominee Donald Trump. The former US president, Trump miraculously escaped when a bullet pierced the upper part of his right ear during an election rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday afternoon.

US President Joe Biden on Sunday urged citizens to unite in the hour of crisis when a failed assassination bid was made on his predecessor Donald Trump and said it was time to “cool down” political rhetoric in the country. In a prime-time national address from the Oval Office, “I want to speak to you tonight about the need for us to lower the temperature in our politics and to remember, while we may disagree, we are not enemies we are neighbours, friends, coworkers, citizens, and most importantly, we are fellow Americans.” Calling for national unity, he said, “We must stand together”.  “Yesterday's shooting at Donald Trump's rally in Pennsylvania calls on all of us to take a step back, take stock of where we are and how we go forward from here,” he said.