The small town of Butler, Pennsylvania, entered the history of political violence in the United States on Saturday afternoon, El País said in a Spanish language report.
The incident immediately sparked memories of past political violence in living memory, ranging from the assassinations of Abraham Lincoln in 1865 to John Fitzgerald Kennedy in 1963.
A few minutes had passed before the start of one of those rallies that former President Donald Trump usually offers on weekends to thousands of his followers when a man opened fire from the roof of a nearby building.
The former president was slightly injured in a shootout in which the attacker and one of those attending the electoral event died.
Joe Biden, Trump’s rival in the upcoming election, declared a few hours in a press briefing that there is “no place in America for this kind of violence...It’s sick. Sick.”
The list of presidents or former leaders who suffered attacks but survived – a list that Trump joined this Saturday – includes Theodore Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan.
Trump's assassination attempt recalls the attack on the Capitol on January 6, 2021, as well as the rise of armed far-right paramilitary forces that the FBI considers domestic terrorism.
Donald Trump has faced several attempts on his life, including in an incident in Las Vegas, when a British national tried to grab a gun from a police officer and use it to shoot Trump, The Telegraph reported.
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