Donald Trump headed to Milwaukee Sunday following assassination attempt

Former President Trump said he will arrive in Milwaukee for the Republican National Convention on Sunday, less than a day after he was wounded in an assassination attempt during a rally in Pennsylvania.

Trump on Truth Social Sunday afternoon said he will be leaving for Milwaukee at 3:30 p.m. EST "as scheduled," despite originally planning to delay his arrival at the presidential nominating convention following the shooting on Saturday that killed a rally attendee and left Trump bloodied near his right ear.

"Based on yesterday's terrible events, I was going to delay my trip to Wisconsin, and The Republican National Convention, by two days," he wrote, "but have just decided that I cannot allow a 'shooter,' or potential assassin, to force change to scheduling, or anything else."

The Trump campaign Saturday night said Trump still planned to attend the convention following the incident, but the timing of his arrival had been uncertain.

The former president said he was "shot with a bullet that pierced the upper part of my right ear" after the shooter, identified by the FBI as 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks, fired shots toward Trump during a campaign speech in Butler, Pennsylvania. Secret Service agents killed Crooks moments after he opened fire.

One rally spectator, identified as Corey Comperatore, 50, was killed in the shooting. Two others, both adult men, were hurt.

Just how the assassination attempt will impact convention programming was not immediately clear by early Sunday afternoon, though Republicans have vowed to move on with the event. The RNC host committee told the Journal Sentinel it still planned to hold its welcome party, set for Sunday, without changes.

Earlier in the day, President Joe Biden said he asked the Secret Service to "review all security measures" for the RNC in Milwaukee.

"As I said last night, there's no place in America for this kind of violence or any violence for that matter," Biden said Sunday. "An assassination attempt is contrary to everything we stand for as a nation."

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