Former President Donald Trump appeared alongside its newly announced name running mate Senator JD Vance at the Republican National Convention on Monday night, the first time Trump has been seen in public since Saturday’s shocking assassination attempt.
The crowd cheered Trump, whose the ear was bandaged Trump said on social media over the weekend that he had considered postponing his trip to Milwaukee, but wrote that he had “just decided that I couldn’t allow a ‘shooter,’ or a potential assassin, to force a change of schedule, or anything else.”
Trump’s appearance capped a dramatic few days for the former president, who A gunman opened fire on Saturday at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, killing a bystander and seriously wounding two people in addition to Trump. Secret Service snipers shot and killed the shooter, who has since been arrested. identified as a 20-year-old Pennsylvania manThe FBI and Secret Service are still searching for a motive.
The former president announced on social media Monday that he had selected the 39-year-old Ohio senator as his running mate. According to a source, Vance only learned of his nomination about 20 minutes before Trump made his choice public on social media.
Trump and Vance were officially nominated by the RNC on Monday. Vance, the junior senator from Ohio, spoke after his nomination was announced to greet delegates with his wife, Usha.
Earlier in the day, Trump also received more good news: A federal judge in Florida dismissed the charges against him and his two co-defendants, ruling that the appointment of special counsel Jack Smith was illegally financed.
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