Two killed in Trump assassination attempt

Donald Trump was rushed off stage by Secret Service agents on Saturday afternoon after shots rang out at his rally in Pennsylvania. A male attacker was shot and killed by a federal agent after the assassination attempt. The attacker killed one spectator at the rally, and two others are critically injured, according to the secret service.

Trump has now left a local hospital and says he was ‘shot with a bullet that pierced the upper part of my right ear’. ‘I knew immediately that something was wrong in that I heard a whizzing sound, shots, and immediately felt the bullet ripping through the skin’, the former president posted on his Truth Social account. ‘Much bleeding took place, so I realised then what was happening.’

Trump’s spokesman subsequently confirmed that the former president ‘is fine’. Following the shots, security staff swarmed the stage and rushed Trump off to a waiting vehicle. But before they did so Trump, with blood streaming down his face, raised his fist in an act of defiance, in what will surely become one of the defining images of the year.