Hooliganism and thuggary reared an ugly head in America yesterday as a gunman identified as Thomas Mathew Crook in an assassination attempt shot at former President Donald Trump at a rally in Butler, Pensylvania.
The assassination, which motif is yet to be established as at press time, got the former President, tearing off a part of his right ear with blood streaming down on that part of his face.
The shooter, aged twenty was profiled as a Republican who donated to a group named as the Democratic-aligned.
After the incident, Mr. Trump was harried into a waiting armoured SUV to a medical facility in the town.
Security experts are currently working to put the bits and pieces together in order to arrive at the motive for the assassination attempt which happened from an unmanned rooftop close to the venue of the rally.
Assassination Attempt: Biden, Democrats Condemn Attempt
President Joe Biden and other top Democrats have condemned the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump.
Mr. Biden, while condemning attempt, said that regardless of whatever the situation may be, Trump should be able to do his rally without any harm to his life.
Trump, while reacting to the attempt, told his supporters via an email, “I will never surrender.”
