Former President Trump pulled a union worker that he recognized on stage during a campaign rally on Saturday.
Trump was speaking about electric cars when he suddenly recognized an audience member.
"Are you the same guy? Yes? No kidding," Trump said. "Pretty good memory, right? Unlike somebody else that I happen to be running against."
The Republican then encouraged the worker to get up on stage and joked around with him.
"He's a serious union guy, a United Auto Workers [worker]," Trump said. "He does not carry guns. Come on up here, look at him. Look at the shape he's in."
"I'm glad to see this guy," the union worker said energetically at the podium. "I told you, we're gonna get 85 million of us out there to vote for him. So let's go home from this rally and do our part."
U.S. Senate candidate Mike Rogers, R-Mich., shared highlights from former President Trump’s rally in Michigan and discussed the demand for answers in the assassination attempt against the former president.
He described the Michigan rally and the Republican National Convention as "electric" and said Trump's agenda is for the working American families. Rogers, a former FBI agent who was previously chairman of the House intelligence committee, said he and Trump had a conversation about a "leadership change" to get politics out of the Department of Justice.
A lone bike cloaked by a tree's shade near a Pennsylvania manufacturing facility is a haunting reminder of a gunman's hail of gunfire that nearly assassinated a former president.
The shooter, Thomas Matthew Crooks, rode the bicycle to Donald Trump's rally in Butler and ditched it before he opened fire from a roof about 150 yards from where the former president spoke to the crowd of thousands on Saturday, The New York Post reported.
Crooks left the bike behind in plain sight before he climbed to his perch and unfurled a flurry of gunshots that killed a local hero, who shielded his family, nicked Trump's ear and wounded two others.
A witness first noticed the bicycle around 5:30 p.m. on July 13 – about 42 minutes before the shooting – according to The Post. The security misstep has at least one expert believing "someone was asleep at the switch."
Paul Mauro, an attorney and retired NYPD inspector who has been involved in several multi-agency security coordination efforts during his career, said a "flying squad" should have nabbed Crooks well before he pulled the trigger.
This is an excerpt from an article by Fox News Digital's Chris Eberhart.
{{#rendered}}Bethel Park High School said it wanted to correct the record on Thomas Matthew Crooks, who allegedly attempted to assassinate former President Trump during a July 13 rally in Butler, Pa.
The Pennsylvania high school released a statement Saturday saying it had no record of Crooks, who graduated in 2022, having been on or having tried out for the rifle team. The school also said it had no record of Crooks being bullied, despite reports claiming he had been.
"It has been reported that Thomas Crooks was a member of the Bethel Park High School rifle team or tried out for it but was dismissed due to poor performance or because the coach had character concerns," Bethel Park High School said. "Thomas Crooks was never a member of the school's rifle team and we have no record of him trying out. The coach does not recall meeting him. However, it is possible that Crooks informally attended a practice, took a shot, and never returned. We don't have any record of that happening."
Bethel Park High School also said there is "a painful misconception that Thomas Crooks was relentlessly bullied in school, which may have led to the assassination attempt on former President Trump." The school district "maintains detailed records, including academic performance, attendance, disciplinary history, and health records," the online statement said. "According to our records, Mr. Crooks excelled academically, regularly attended school, and had no disciplinary incidents, including those related to bullying or threats."
The high school said "Crooks was known as a quiet, bright young man who generally got along with his teachers and classmates," and since graduating, he earned an associate's degree in engineering science from the Community College of Allegheny County and worked as a dietary aide at Bethel Park Skilled Nursing and Rehabilitation Center.
"It would be wildly irresponsible for us to speculate on his state of mind in the two years since we last saw Thomas Crooks," the high school said.
The statement also acknowledged there "is a false claim that Thomas Crooks once threatened violence against the school." In 2019, the school said there was "an unfortunate incident involving threats made by a different student against specific school administrators," but that had "no connection whatsoever to Thomas Crooks."
Fox News' Pilar Arias contributed to this report.
Former President Donald Trump paid tribute to Corey Comperatore in Grand Rapids, Michigan, on Saturday during his first campaign rally since the assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania, a week earlier.
The funeral for Comperatore, an ex-fire chief who was fatally struck shielding his wife and daughters from gunfire, was held Friday at Cabot Methodist Church in small town Pennsylvania.
Trump was not in attendance because of Secret Service concerns, the Associated Press reported, citing a source familiar with the matter.
"Corey, as you know, Corey Comperatore was a brave firefighter who died, funeral yesterday, Trump said Saturday in Michigan. "Shielding his wife and daughters from bullets, who shielded them from the bullets of this... this horrendous person. Corey was a hero. And we will carry his memory in our hearts for all time."
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
The U.S. Secret Service responded Saturday night to a bombshell report that top officials repeatedly denied past pleas to beef up former President Trump's security detail, saying in a statement that it depends on "state or local partners" to fill in gaps when it can't accommodate such requests.
The report from the Washington Post came exactly a week after Trump was shot in Butler, Pennsylvania, while speaking at a rally, prior to his 2024 presidential nomination at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee.
The gunman, Thomas Matthew Crooks, had been observed by attendees before the shooting began. The Post reported that, before the July 13 assassination attempt on Trump, top Secret Service officials "repeatedly" denied requests for tighter security measures from Trump's detail. An official granted the interview to the media outlet on the condition of anonymity.
According to the report, agents tasked with protecting Trump requested additional security resources in the past. These requests involved things such as magnetometers or a larger number of personnel to screen guests. Additional snipers had also reportedly been requested in the past.
This is an excerpt from an article by Fox News' Andrea Vacchiano, CB Cotton and David Spunt.
{{#rendered}}Fox News host Jesse Watters recently conducted a sit-down interview with former President Trump to discuss last week's failed assassination attempt.
The interview, which will premiere on "Jesse Watters Primetime" on Monday night at 8 p.m. ET, featured both Trump and his vice presidential candidate JD Vance. Vance currently serves as a U.S. Senator representing Ohio.
The three men discussed the assassination attempt against the former president last week. Gunman Thomas Matthew Crooks shot at Trump from a roof in the middle of a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, wounding the presidential candidate on his right ear.
Trump revealed during the interview that he was not warned about Crooks by the U.S. Secret Service.
"Nobody mentioned it," the former president replied. "Nobody said it was a problem."
"[They] could've said, 'Let's wait for 15, 20 minutes, 5 minutes.' Nobody said…I think that was a mistake," he added.
This is an excerpt from an article by Fox News Digital's Andrea Vacchiano.
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