[533] Trump Survives Assassination Attempt

This piece was made in real-time.
It is based on the first news reports.

On July 13, 2024, former U.S. president Donald Trump, the Republican Party's presumptive nominee in the 2024 presidential election, was shot in the upper part of his right ear at a campaign rally near Butler, Pennsylvania. Trump was speaking to the audience when he was shot by 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks of Bethel Park, Pennsylvania. Crooks fired eight rounds from an AR-15–style rifle from the roof of a nearby building outside the rally venue, killing Corey Comperatore, 50, in the audience and critically injuring two other audience members. Crooks was subsequently killed by a Secret Service Counter Assault Team sniper.