{"id":965727,"date":"2024-07-15T05:07:52","date_gmt":"2024-07-15T05:07:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/dm-simulator-v2\/?p=965727"},"modified":"2024-07-15T05:07:52","modified_gmt":"2024-07-15T05:07:52","slug":"trump-assassination-attempt-was-contrary-to-what-american-stand-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/trump-assassination-attempt-was-contrary-to-what-american-stand-for\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Trump assassination attempt contrary to what Americans stand for&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>United States President Joe Biden says there&#8217;s no place in America for the kind of violence that occurred when his predecessor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sabcnews.com\/sabcnews\/trump-shot-in-ear-at-us-election-campaign-rally-major-security-lapse\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Donald Trump was targeted in an assassination attempt<\/a> while campaigning.<\/p>\n<p>Biden says he has spoken briefly with Trump and has expressed gratitude that he&#8217;s doing well.<\/p>\n<p>The FBI will lead the investigation into the attack as they continue to search for a motive that led 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks to embark on such a brazen attack before the Secret Service fatally shot him.<\/p>\n<p>Trump posted on social media that he&#8217;d decided not to delay his departure for the Republican National Convention which starts in Milwaukee, Wisconsin today &#8211; an event where his Vice Presidential pick will be named and where Trump will formally be nominated as the Republican nominee for President in November&#8217;s election.<\/p>\n<p>Biden, speaking from the White House yesterday, said an assassination attempt was contrary to everything Americans stood for as a nation and that the unity of the country was most important now.<\/p>\n<p>He urged people to allow the FBI to do its work and establish the facts rather than speculate about the shooter&#8217;s motives or affiliations.<\/p>\n<p>He said he&#8217;s instructed the Secret Service to provide Trump with all the protective measures to ensure his continued safety.<\/p>\n<p><strong>VIDEO | The report below has the full details on the incident:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/e5NXRrNQOOU?si=vW7Dsyk9ZWj5_V9H\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump was targeted in an assassination attempt while campaigning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":965728,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1277],"tags":[1245,318],"class_list":["post-965727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-2","tag-assassination-attempt","tag-donald-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=965727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965727\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/965728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=965727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=965727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=965727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}