Donald Trump rushed from rally and 1 attendee dead, 2 seriously injured after apparent assassination attempt Former President Donald Trumpwas rushed off stage after gunshots rang out as he spoke to supporters at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, near Pittsburgh. He appeared to have blood on his ...
“This isn’t a gun problem, this is a mental problem,” the GOP presidential candidate said in an interview on CNN, adding that he wouldn’t change gun laws to try and prevent deaths. “He snuck up on them, whether it was a gun or a knife, he would have had something.” Trump ...
Trump also has been widely criticized for offering a false equivalency when discussing racial violence, notably when he said there were “very fine people, on both sides,” after a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, that resulted in the death of an anti-racism demonstrator. On...
Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., another 2020 White House hopeful, asked that Trump "please stop the racist anti-immigrant rhetoric. Stop the hatred in this country which is creating the kind of violence we see." Trump on Monday touted his administration’s record on gun measures, noting that ...
to come through the cracks and they're going to do things that people will not even believe are possible." Trump has previously iterated the message that mass shootings and gun violence are more the product of broken mental health systems than proof of the need for tighter gun control laws....
Trump holds final listening session on gun violence President met with a bipartisan group of lawmakers seeking solutions to gun violence in schools and other public places; chief White House correspondent John Roberts reports. President Trump sparred with Republican lawmakers during a...
This is not the first time Washington has focused on video game violence. In 2013, after the shooting at Sandy Hook elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut, Vice President Joe Biden held three days of wide-ranging talks on gun violence prevention, including a meeting with vide...
President Donald Trump, as he seeks to respond to gun violence in the wake of the Parkland school shooting, will gather opposing sides at the White House on Thursday to discuss the role of video game violence. Trump has signaled in the wake of the shooting that killed 17 people that he ...
Reality Check: Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton on the Second Amendment Jason Miller, Trump’s senior communications adviser, said in a statement that Trump was merely talking about Second Amendment supporters large influence as a group. “It’s called the power of unification – 2nd Amendment peo...
Trump was in the middle of delivering his rally speech – turned toward the right with his hands on his lectern – when the sound of multiple gunshots suddenly rang out at approximately 6:15 p.m. ET. He said later on social media he was shot in the ear. ...