ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION – UNITED STATES

An assassination attempt here only a matter of time

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Original article by Joe Kelly
The Australian – Page: 3 : 17-Jul-24

The failed attempt to assassinate Donald Trump has heightened concerns about the safety of Australian politicians. Former home affairs minister Karen Andrews notes that she had raised such concerns in July 2022 in response to the assassination of Japan’s former prime minister Shinzo Abe, and she believes that an attempt to kill an Australian politician is inevitable. The former Coalition cabinet minister adds that the current level of security protection for federal MPs is merely "adequate". Former Home Affairs secretary Mike Pezzullo notes that the last major review of protective security arrangements for the nation’s parliamentarians was undertaken in 1979, in the wake of the Sydney Hilton Hotel bombing.

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Born-again Trump: Miracle Donald pivots to political peacemaker

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Original article by Cameron Stewart, Adam Creighton
The Australian – Page: 1 & 2 : 16-Jul-24

Former US president Donald Trump says God prevented him from being assassinated in Pennsylvania, adding that the doctor who treated his wounded ear in hospital described his survival as a ‘miracle’. Trump will address the Republican Party’s national convention in Milwaukee this week, where he will be formally nominated as its presidential candidate. Trump says it will be a "whole different speech now", and rather than largely targeting the policies of President Joe Biden, it will aim to bring the nation together; Trump adds that he has been given the chance to unite America. Biden has in turn used a presidential address from the Oval Office to call for the nation to "stand together", contending that there is no place for violence of any kind in America.

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UNITED STATES. EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT, REPUBLICAN PARTY (UNITED STATES)

Secret Service faces review as top sniper claims this guy had help

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Original article by Matthew Cranston
The Australian Financial Review – Page: 12 : 16-Jul-24

US President Joe Biden has ordered an independent review of the Secret Service in the wake of the attempted assassination of former president Donald Trump at a campaign rally on Saturday. The investigation will focus on how Thomas Matthew Crook was able to get close enough to shoot at Trump with an assault-style rifle, with one of Crook’s shots appearing to hit Trump on the ear. Meanwhile, Canadian Special Operations sniper Dallas Alexander, whose team holds the world record for the longest confirmed sniper kill, contends that Crook could not have been able to get in a position to shoot at Trump in broad daylight from a rooftop just a couple of hundred metres away without getting help from "somewhere within an agency organisation or government".

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