MILWAUKEE — The hottest fashion accessory at the Republican National Convention is the ear bandage. The bandage can be made of sturdy paper, of flimsy napkin, or of gauze and tape, but it must always be white, and always worn covering the right ear — exactly the way former president Donald Trump first appeared when he entered the convention hall ...
MILWAUKEE — T-shirts declaring “I’m voting for the convicted felon” in five different styles filled a table at a gift stand. The crowd roared at a mention of the Manhattan district attorney who prosecuted Donald Trump. But the court cases hanging over Trump’s bid for a second term seemed almost like an afterthought for many who gathered in Milwaukee this ...
America’s political leaders described the 2024 presidential election as a life-or-death crucible long before a man opened fire at Donald Trump’s rally in Pennsylvania, wounding the former president and killing a supporter. Since then, Trump’s allies have moved quickly to blame liberals and the media for the would-be assassin’s actions, before any public evidence of his motivations. Biden’s campaign has ...
Lawmakers in the House and Senate said Sunday they would investigate the apparent assassination attempt on former president Donald Trump, demanding documents and testimony from the U.S. Secret Service, while others moved to enhance the security provided to presidential candidates. At the center of the maelstrom on Capitol Hill are questions posed by Republicans and Democrats alike about the agency ...
MILWAUKEE — Law enforcement officials said Sunday they are not increasing security for this week’s Republican National Convention, even as Wisconsin’s Democratic governor pushed to expand where guns would be restricted. The law enforcement officials said they developed a robust plan over 18 months that does not need to be updated after the shooting Saturday at former president Donald Trump’s ...
Three of the finalists to be former president Donald Trump’s running mate have responded in different ways to Saturday’s shooting at a Pennsylvania rally, which the authorities have called an assassination attempt. As many elected officials have over the past 24 hours, Sens. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio) and Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), and North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum, issued public statements responding ...
President Biden met with key Democrats on Saturday afternoon to urge them to back his reelection efforts, but some lawmakers came away from the meetings frustrated that the president did not directly answer some of their questions, according to several lawmakers on the calls. Rep. Jared Huffman (D-Calif.), a member of the Congressional Progressive Caucus who was on the group’s ...
A shooting at former president Donald Trump’s campaign rally Saturday evening — which is being investigated as an assassination attempt — upended the already dark and tumultuous race for the White House. Trump’s campaign said he still plans to attend the Republican National Convention, which is scheduled to begin in Milwaukee on Monday. But the shooting is sure to shift ...
BUTLER, Pa. — Former president Donald Trump was rushed offstage from a campaign rally here on Saturday evening, where a shooting left two other people dead, authorities said. A Trump campaign spokesman said Trump was taken to a medical facility but is “fine.” Butler County District Attorney Richard Goldinger said two people are dead, including one audience member and one ...
Donald Trump deemed cryptocurrency “a scam” and a “disaster waiting to happen” during his term in office. In the official Republican Party platform that Trump edited last week, he struck a different tone. “Republicans will end Democrats’ unlawful and un-American crypto crackdown and oppose the creation of a Central Bank Digital Currency,” reads the platform, which will be formally adopted ...