Donald Trump Live Updates: Jill Biden spoke to Melania Trump after attack, says report

Donald Trump Live Updates: Donald Trump said he plans to announce his vice presidential pick on Monday, the first day of the Republican National Convention, reported news agency AP.

It remains unclear whether the assassination attempt Saturday at his Pennsylvania rally has changed the former president’s thinking about his potential second-in-command. But he told Fox News Channel host Bret Baier in a call that he planned to make his pick Monday.

The roll call vote to nominate that person is expected Monday, according to a person with direct knowledge of the schedule who spoke on the condition of anonymity. The person cautioned that Trump could always change his mind.

Donald Trump Live Updates: Donald Trump is likely to announce his choice for Vice President on Monday. Amid the wild speculation, three key individuals are seen as probable candidates for the position of his vice presidential nominee. Trump has not yet chosen his running mate for the 2024 presidential election. According to Fox News reporter Brett Baier, the Republican presidential candidate informed him that he would make the announcement any time now.

Trump’s possible picks for his team come from all sorts of backgrounds when it comes to working in government. Even though he hasn’t been quick to share the big news, he did drop some hints about it at the approaching RNC convention. As per AP, Trump suggested that his VP shortlist includes GOP Senators Marco Rubio from Florida and JD Vance from Ohio, along with North Dakota GOP Governor Doug Burgum. Dig Deeper

Donald Trump Live Updates: Images of the moment have already been splashed across the world’s front pages and papered many corners of the internet — former President Donald Trump, ear bleeding, with his right hand clenched in a fist above the Secret Service agents surrounding him after he was shot. And now they’re available on T-shirts for as little as USD 4 on China’s e-commerce platforms, reported news agency AP.

Over the weekend, Chinese retailers leapt into action on Taobao and JD.com, the country’s two biggest e-commerce platforms, to profit from the images after an assassination attempt on Trump at a rally on Saturday.

“Make America Great Again,” read one T-shirt, according to screenshots that circulated online. “Shooting Makes Me Stronger,” read another.

Donald Trump Live Updates: A GoFundMe effort set up by the Trump campaign to assist victims and families of those shot in the apparent assassination attempt Saturday night has raised more than $3.5 million from over 50,000 donations, reported news agency Bloomberg.

The largest contributors – donating $50,000 each – include singer Kid Rock and Dana White, supporters of Donald Trump’s presidential bid. The Heritage Foundation – which has coordinated Project 2025, which describes itself as an agenda for Trump’s second term – also gave $50,000, a foundation spokesman said.

Donald Trump Live Updates: A Florida judge appointed by Donald Trump has dismissed the criminal case against the former president on charges of mishandling top secret documents, saying the way that Special Counsel Jack Smith was appointed was improper, reported news agency AFP.

The decision is a huge victory for Trump, who had been accused of endangering national security by holding onto top secret documents after leaving the White House.

Donald Trump Live Updates: Donald Trump cements his hold on his Republican Party at its 2024 convention this week, having survived an assassination attempt and navigated numerous legal tangles on the road to the party’s presidential nomination, reported news agency Reuters.

During the four-day event beginning on Monday, the former president will announce his choice for a running mate, having cited as frontrunners Ohio U.S. Senator J.D. Vance, Florida U.S. Senator Marco Rubio and North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum, all of whom will speak at the gathering.

While the event in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, will be a festive affair to formally nominate Trump, it occurs at a tense moment in U.S. history on the road to the Nov. 5 election rematch between President Joe Biden, 81, and Trump, 78.

Donald Trump Live Updates: The Republican National Convention was always going to be a high-security event. The convention, which opens Monday and is expected to draw over 50,000 attendees, is now under even closer scrutiny after an assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump over the weekend at a campaign rally, reported news agency Bloomberg.

The US Secret Service, in coordination with local, state, and federal law enforcement agencies, on Sunday reaffirmed the robust security plans. Key venues such as the Fiserv Forum, Panther Arena, and the Baird Center — all located within blocks of each other — are focal points of an extensive security cordon. Stricter measures including vehicle checkpoints, pedestrian restrictions, and limitations on public transit have also been created to safeguard the four-day event.

Milwaukee Police Chief Jeffrey Norman emphasized the city’s readiness at a press briefing on Sunday. “I just want to reassure not only our greater community, those involved at the convention, but also our city, we got this,” said Norman.

Donald Trump Live Updates: A defiant Donald Trump, having just survived an attempted assassination, enters the Republican National Convention having not yet announced his vice presidential pick, reported news agency AP.

It remains unclear whether the shooting Saturday at his Pennsylvania rally has changed the former president’s thinking about his potential second-in-command. But his choice now carries considerably more gravity. If a bullet had struck just a little bit to the right, Trump likely would have been killed or seriously injured.

The close call puts in stark relief the significance of a position that is a heartbeat away from the presidency. Trump has repeatedly claimed that choosing someone who was qualified to take over as commander in chief was his top consideration for the role.

“You need somebody that can be good just in case, that horrible just in case,” he said in an interview with ‘The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show’ in May.

Donald Trump Live Updates: The shares of Donald Trump’s media company surged in early trading Monday after a failed assassination attempt on the former president over the weekend boosted momentum for the so-called Trump trade across markets, reported news agency Bloomberg.

Trump Media & Technology Group Corp., which trades under the ticker DJT and debuted earlier this year, was up around 50% in early trading. Other stocks seen as benefiting from the Republican winning another term — from private prison firms to cryptocurrency miners — rallied in early trading.

“It’s all about the Trump trade right now,” said Matthew Tuttle, chief executive officer at Tuttle Capital Management. The reaction in Trump Media shares is expected as investors tend to use the stock as “the direct Trump trade,” he added.

Donald Trump Live Updates: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Monday said he was not concerned at the prospect of another Donald Trump presidency in the United States, despite indications his administration could be more sympathetic to the Kremlin, reported news agency AFP.

A Trump victory in the US November elections would put into question Washington’s continued support for Ukraine as the country struggles through a third year of fighting against Russian forces.

“I think that if Donald Trump becomes president, we will work together. I’m not worried about this,” Zelensky said during a press conference in Kyiv.

The Republican Party candidate has suggested that he would end the conflict very quickly if he won back the presidency, which Kyiv fears would mean it would be forced to negotiate with Moscow from a weakened position.

Donald Trump Live Updates: The attempted assassination of Donald Trump caps an escalating trend of political violence that has plagued the US for more than a decade, sparking calls for cooler rhetoric and heightened security, reported news agency Bloomberg.

US lawmakers have already launched probes into how the shooter at the western Pennsylvania rally eluded Secret Service and local law enforcement detection. But some lawmakers also began to question whether Saturday’s shooting could lead to more attacks in an election year defined by divisive politics.

“My big concern is that this isn’t a one-off and we’re going to see more political violence,” Representative Guy Reschenthaler, a Pennsylvania Republican, said after the attack at the Trump rally in his home state.

President Joe Biden spoke to the nation Sunday evening from the Oval Office to call on candidates to tamp down incendiary language and on Americans to reject bloodshed as a political tool. “The power to change America should always rest in the hands of the people, not the hands of a would-be assassin,” he said.

Donald Trump Live Updates: A split-second move saved Donald Trump’s life during an assassination attempt on him at his Pennsylvania rally on Saturday, July 13. When shots rang out, Trump slightly turned his head to look at a jumbotron – a move that ensured he was not killed. Dig Deeper

Donald Trump Live Updates: The Secret Service agents who were there for Donald Trump’s protection at the Pennsylvania rally are being called out for their failure during the shooting on Saturday. The Secret Service Director Kimberley Cheatle is taking the heat as calls mounted for her resignation. The critics blamed the chief for being too engrossed in side policies to focus on her actual duty at hand. The Secret Service agents blamed the local police for not securing the surrounding rooftops, one of which was used by the shooter to target Trump during the rally. Dig Deeper

Donald Trump Live Updates: Donald Trump has said he is “supposed to be dead” after the assassination attempt on him at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania, calling the incident a “surreal experience,” reported news agency PTI.

In one of his first interviews since the incident, the 78-year-old former president told conservative US media that he felt that he had been saved “by luck or by God”.

“I’m not supposed to be here, I’m supposed to be dead,” the former US president said, speaking to the New York Post while en route to Milwaukee for the Republican National Convention starting on Monday which will nominate him as the party’s candidate for the November 5 presidential election.

“The most incredible thing was that I happened to not only turn [my head] but to turn at the exact right time and in just the right amount,” he said, adding that the bullet that grazed his ear could have easily killed him.

“I’m supposed to be dead, I’m not supposed to be here,” he said. He called the entire incident a “surreal experience.”

Donald Trump Live Updates: Former US President Donald Trump’s website featured an image of him with a bloodied face on Monday morning to urge supporters to donate to his campaign and come together in the spirit of unity and peace following this weekend’s shooting, reported news agency Reuters.

The website redirected prospective donors to a page on fundraising platform WinRed that shows a black and white image taken by an Associated Press photographer that Trump has described as “iconic.”

It shows the Republican candidate’s face streaked with blood and his fist raised in defiance after a bullet pierced his upper right ear at a rally in Pennsylvania. The image was captioned with the words “FEAR NOT” written in upper case letters. A message below the image read: “Unity. Peace. Make America Great Again.” The page also carried Trump’s signature and gave visitors to the website options to contribute at different levels.

Donald Trump Live Updates: Britain’s head of state King Charles III has written to former US president Donald Trump after he survived an assassination attempt, Buckingham Palace said on Monday, reported news agency AFP.

Charles’ message was delivered on Sunday via the UK embassy in Washington, the palace said, adding that the contents would be kept private.

Trump — set to be confirmed as the Republican Party’s candidate in the November presidential election — was hit in the ear by a gunman at an election rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday. He was left with a bloodied face, but avoided serious injury in the incident in which one bystander died and two others were critically injured.

Donald Trump Live Updates: America has never seen anything like the 2024 presidential race. A former president, Donald Trump, is set for a rematch against the current one, Joe Biden. But Biden’s future at the top of the ticket now is uncertain as he faces calls to step aside from a growing number of congressional Democrats due to his advanced age and a series of faltering public appearances, reported news agency Reuters.

Biden’s position as his party’s nominee has grown increasingly tenuous as some Democratic lawmakers and prominent donors began imploring him to yield to a new candidate after a slipshod debate performance against Trump in June raised questions about his mental acuity. Subsequent TV interviews and public speeches have failed to quell the storm – and it remains possible that Biden, 81, could decide to end his bid for re-election and turn to Vice President Kamala Harris, 59, or someone else within the party to step in. Trump, 78, survived an assassination attempt on July 13 while speaking at a rally in Pennsylvania. His ear was grazed by a bullet, streaking his face with blood and providing the race with perhaps its most enduring image after he showed his defiance while being moved off-stage by federal agents. The shooter’s motive remains as yet unknown.

Donald Trump Live Updates: The Kremlin said on Monday that Russian President Vladimir Putin didn’t contact Donald Trump after the assassination attempt on the Republican U.S. presidential candidate over the weekend and has no plans to do so, reported news agency Reuters.

Asked if security measures around Putin would now be beefed up, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the Russian leader already enjoyed the appropriate level of protection.

“Security is already strengthened for obvious reasons, regardless of incidents,” Peskov told reporters.

“We can only reiterate that the security of the head of state is provided at the appropriate level, everything necessary is being done taking into account the international escalation of tensions in general.”

Donald Trump Live Updates: The assassination attempt at Donald Trump on Saturday in Butler, Pennsylvania, has triggered numerous conspiracy theories and speculations, ranging from The Boys creators orchestrating the shooting to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un planning the assassination.

One widely circulated post on X (formerly Twitter) claims to be written by a Secret Service agent named Jonathan Willis. This post, likely a fabrication, is one of many wild rumours about the incident. The message was initially posted on 4chan, an anonymous bulletin board platform where anyone can post anything. Dig Deeper

Donald Trump Live Updates: The FBI is investigating the attempted assassination of Donald Trump as “potential domestic terrorism,” the bureau has announced. Investigators are reportedly going through suspect Thomas Matthew Crooks’ cell phone to determine a motive in the shooting.

The FBI has said that it seems as though the 20-year-old suspect acted alone but they are still probing “if there were any co-conspirators associated” with the attack in Pennsylvania. Crooks injured Trump and two other people, and killed another person, before being killed by Secret Service snipers.

Donald Trump Live Updates: American democracy is currently highly polarised politically and those rooting for a return of Joe Biden as US President are worried about Democrats losing in a potential “Trump Tsunami,” according to retired diplomat KP Fabian, reported news agency ANI.

“We should also recognise that there have been much toxic polarisation,” Fabian told ANI in the wake of the recent attack on Donald Trump during a rally in Pennsylvania.

“It’s one thing to criticise your political adversary, but quite another thing to say that stop him, because otherwise he will destroy America. That is the tone which Biden has been till now adopting. And I am the only one who can save America. As I said, we all should be glad he said it, but it’s a bit too late,” said Fabian, who served in the Indian Foreign Service between 1964 and 2000.

Donald Trump Live Updates: Former US President Donald Trump recently recounted the “surreal” experience of surviving an assassination attempt in Pennsylvania, telling the New York Post on July 14 that he felt he was “supposed to be dead.” Dig Deeper

Donald Trump Live Updates: Hundred of photos and videos from the event, one even showing a bullet whiz past Trump while he was on the stage, established a timeline of events which ensued on Saturday at the Pennsylvania rally. Read more

Donald Trump Live Updates: “There is no place for political violence in our society. Assassination is not only categorically wrong, but is also the assassination of democracy. It is abhorrent that anyone has tried to assassinate President Trump. Everyone, on all sides of this election, should condemn political violence loudly and publicly,” tweets LinkedIn’s Reid Hoffman.

“At a recent business conference, Peter Thiel said that my lawsuit work against Trump was ‘turning a clown into a martyr’ In that context, I replied that I wished that Trump would martyr himself – meaning let himself be held accountable – for his assaults on and lies about women. Of course I meant nothing about any sort of physical harm or violence, which I categorically deplore. I meant and mean accountability to the rule of law, such as unanimous guilty felony verdict by 12 jurors on 34 counts and an $84 million judgment for slander and lies about his sexual assault,” Hoffman said in the same post.

Donald Trump Live Updates: The victim of the shooting at a campaign rally held for former US President Donald Trump in Pennsylvania on Saturday was a 50-year-old ex-chief of the firefighters named Corey Comperatore, said Josh Shapiro, the Governor of Pennsylvania, on Sunday. Read more