One spectator was killed and two were critically hurt in Saturday’s shooting.
Federal authorities are investigating after former president Donald Trump was shot in an assassination attempt at an election rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, on Saturday.
Secret Service agents swarmed Trump and ducked behind the podium. Blood could be seen on his right ear of Trump as agents surrounded him and led him off the stage to a waiting vehicle to whisk him away.
Trump is “fine,” a spokesperson said. The alleged shooter is dead. One spectator was killed and two were hurt, officials said.
What we know about the shooting
Assassination attempt on Trump expected to be ‘exploited’ by misinformation: NYPD
The assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump “will likely be amplified in extremist messaging and heavily exploited by malicious actors,” according to an NYPD intelligence product obtained by ABC News.
The misinformation surrounding the attack is “aimed at fomenting division,” according to the Sunday bulletin.
“In the immediate hours after the shooting took place, multiple users on numerous online messaging platforms responded to the incident with support for the attack, overt calls for civil war, hostile rhetoric against FPOTUS Trump, threats against elected officials and generalized calls for retaliatory violence,” according to the bulletin.
Sources have said there has been an uptick in threats to elected officials around the country as a result of the attack.