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Bitcoin (BTC) has demonstrated significant upward momentum recently, breaking out of its consolidation triangle and surging by almost 8% over the last three days.

Tom Crooks is the name of an individual who tried to assassinate former US President Donald Trump on Saturday. While the FBI is investigating the incident and the motive behind this dastardly attack, there is little known about this 20-year-old assassin. This resident of Pennsylvania graduated from the Bethel Park High School in 2022. His classmates expressed their shock at the incident and were surprised that the classmate who appeared to be an introvert could be involved in something as serious as an assassination plot. Many of his classmates described Crook as a reticent student who had a helping nature. This then raises a question as to what prompted an introvert to shot at a former President of the US?

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Donald Trump, having just survived an attempted assassination, enters the Republican National Convention having not yet announced his vice presidential pick — but he said he'd make that choice on Monday. It remains unclear whether the shooting Saturday at his Pennsylvania rally has changed the former president's thinking about his potential second-in-command. He told Fox News Channel host Bret Baier in a call that he planned to make his pick on Monday. After the shooting, Trump's choice 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.

The leaders of Wall Street's most powerful firms are speaking out to condemn the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump at a Pennsylvania rally over the weekend.

Thomas Matthew Crooks, the 20-year-old gunman who shot and injured former President Donald Trump at a Pennsylvania rally, briefly appeared in an advertisement for BlackRock Inc., the company said on Sunday. 

As world financial markets reopened after the attempted assassination of Donald Trump, one thing was clear: The Trump trade is gaining momentum. 

Former United States President Donald Trump remains committed to speak at the Bitcoin Conference in Nashville, Tennessee, after surviving an assassination attempt on July 13 during a rally in Pennsylvania.

BUTLER, Pa.—The assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump occurred in a largely rural slice of western Pennsylvania that in many ways typifies the regions Trump is leaning on for strong support in the coming election. Butler County, the site of Saturday’s Trump rally, and the surrounding area are home to an economy that has swung significantly in recent decades. The shift, from the decline of steel and manufacturing jobs to the rise of the natural-gas fracking industry, has left many workers displaced and unsettled.

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Donald Trump goes into the Republican National Convention with some bold promises about the U.S. economy, but he has sketched out notably few details about how his plans would actually work

Pennsylvania man,Thomas Matthew Crooks, has been identified as the suspected shooter who tried to assassinate former president Donald Trump at a campaign rally this weekend. Secret Service snipers killed Crooks on Saturday after he fired multiple shots at the rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, from a nearby rooftop. As authorities seek to understand his motivations, here is what we know of the alleged gunman:

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Multiple witnesses say they saw Donald Trump’s suspected shooter climbing on the roof of a Pennsylvania building moments before shots were fired at the former president during a campaign rally Saturday.

Donald Trump has enraged his supporters, paused the Democratic campaign and raised fears of further political violence in the run-up to November's election. Trump's Republican allies painted him as a hero on Saturday, seizing on the image of him with his ear bloodied and fist raised, appearing to mouth the words «Fight! Fight! Fight!» Whereas Trump has regularly used violent language with his followers, advisers and allies of the former president flipped the script on his Democratic opponent President Joe Biden, saying it was the demonization of the Republican presidential candidate that led to the assassination attempt.

A shooting at Donald Trump‘s rally in Butler, Pa., is being investigated as an attempted assassination of the former president and presumptive Republican nominee, law enforcement officials say.

Melania Trump, the wife of former US President Donald Trump, has issued a statement on the attack on his husband. «When I watched that violent bullet strike my husband, Donald, I realized my life, and Barron's life, were on the brink of devastating change. I am grateful to the brave secret service agents and law enforcement officials who risked their own lives to protect my husband,» she said in the statement. «To the families of the innocent victims who are now suffering from this heinous act, I humbly offer my sincerest sympathy. Your need to summon your inner strength for such a terrible reason saddens me. The winds of change have arrived. For those of you who cry in support, I thank you. I commend those of you who have reached out beyond the political divide — thank you for remembering that every single politician is a man or a woman with a loving family,» the statement added.

Trump's Republican allies painted him as a hero on Saturday, seizing on the image of him with his ear bloodied and fist raised, appearing to mouth the words «Fight! Fight! Fight!» Whereas Trump has regularly used violent language with his followers, advisers and allies of the former president flipped the script on his Democratic opponent President Joe Biden, saying it was the demonization of the Republican presidential candidate that led to the assassination attempt. «Today is not just some isolated incident. The central premise of the Biden campaign is that President Donald Trump is an authoritarian fascist who must be stopped at all costs. That rhetoric led directly to President Trump's attempted assassination,» U.S. Senator J.D. Vance of Ohio, a top candidate to be Trump's running mate, said on X.

Donald Trump clutched his right ear as blood spurted out, then ducked for cover as supporters screamed and Secret Service agents raced to surround and protect him. Within moments, someone shouted «shooter down,» and the agents, agitated but in control, began moving Trump offstage to safety. «Wait, wait, wait, wait,» he called out, then made a point of pumping his fist at the crowd and seemed to defiantly shout, «Fight! Fight!» The crowd roared and responded with chants of «USA! USA!» For the first time in more than four decades, a man who was elected president of the United States was wounded in an assassination attempt when a gunman who appeared to have crawled onto a nearby roof opened fire at Trump at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, on Saturday evening. The explosion of political violence came at an especially volatile moment in American history and further inflamed an already stormy campaign for the White House.

president and changing the trajectory of a presidency. It happened on a dreary March afternoon in 1981. President Ronald Reagan was leaving the Washington Hilton hotel after giving a speech to a union group when John W. Hinckley Jr. opened fire from his .22-caliber revolver. At the sound of the gunshots, Secret Service agents swarmed, and one of them shoved the president into the waiting limousine — but not before one of the bullets struck home, hitting Reagan in his side.

Trump on Sunday said the US must «stand united» and called for people to show «true character as Americans», remaining «strong and determined», after he survived an assassination attempt during a rally. Trump, 78, survived the attempt on his life on Saturday when a 20-year-old shooter fired multiple shots at him at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania, injuring his right ear. The shooting left one person attending the rally dead and two others in serious condition. The suspected shooter was shot and killed by a member of the Secret Service. Taking to his social media platform Truth Social platform, Trump said, «It was God alone who prevented the unthinkable from happening,» CNN reported.