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      Two Attendees Describe the Moment Trump’s Rally Erupted Into Chaos

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      Corey Check, a local conservative activist and Republican committeeman in Butler, Pa., and his friend Nathan Rybner were sitting in a section of seats to the right of where former President Donald J. Trump was standing onstage on Saturday evening when they heard a series of loud pops. The sounds seemed to be coming from over their heads in the section where they were sitting, they said.“I heard what I thought was firecrackers,” said Mr. Rybner, a Republican committeeman from Erie County, Pa. “It did not sound like a typical gunshot.”They were sitting close enough to the stage that as Mr. Trump spoke, they could take photos of themselves with the former president in the background. They watched in shock as Secret Service agents rushed toward Mr. Trump.Some of the other attendees in their section tried to flee the chaotic scene that followed, Mr. Check said, but a Secret Service agent ordered everyone to get down.“The first thing I thought to myself was, America’s under attack,” Mr. Check said. “I grabbed the hands of a couple of people I didn’t even know. We said the Lord’s Prayer. I called my family and told them I loved them.”When they were allowed to stand up, Mr. Rybner said he saw what appeared to be blood on a higher level of the seating section behind them. “There was a lot of blood,” he said.Before the rally devolved into chaos, while Mr. Rybner was still waiting for Mr. Trump to arrive onstage, he said he passed the time by looking at the crowd in the section. “I didn’t see anything out of the ordinary,” he said.Mr. Check, speaking by phone minutes after the shooting, was still struggling to process what he had just experienced.“We chanted ‘U.S.A.’” after all this happened, he said, adding that the country will live on “despite what some maniac did to Trump.”“We’re alive. And we will never stop. America has been here, we will always be here, chanting ‘U.S.A.’ Because we’re not done. These people will not destroy our country,” he said. More

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      Tiroteo en mitin de Donald Trump: esto es lo que sabemos

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      Un espectador también murió después de que una persona disparara contra el expresidente durante un mitin en Pensilvania, según personas informadas sobre el asunto. El candidato parecía tener sangre en la cara cuando lo sacaron del escenario.[Estamos en WhatsApp. Empieza a seguirnos ahora]Una persona armada disparó un arma contra el expresidente Donald Trump el sábado en su mitin en Butler, Pensilvania, según un funcionario de EE. UU. y dos personas informadas sobre el asunto, el cual está siendo investigado como un intento de asesinato.Un asistente al mitin falleció y el presunto tirador fue neutralizado por el Servicio Secreto, mientras Trump fue escoltado fuera del escenario con la cara y la oreja ensangrentadas, según tres personas informadas sobre el asunto.El presidente Joe Biden se dirigió a la nación poco después del incidente y condenó la violencia como “enfermiza”. Trump se encontraba “bien”, según Steven Cheung, portavoz de su campaña, y un portavoz del Servicio Secreto dijo que Trump estaba “a salvo”. Cheung no proporcionó más información sobre si Trump había resultado herido ni cómo, y los funcionarios no proporcionaron más información sobre si otros asistentes al mitin resultaron heridos.Esto es lo que hay que saber:We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and log into your Times account, or subscribe for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber? Log in.Want all of The Times? Subscribe. More

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      For Biden, a Race Against Time

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      When my mom got into her 80s, we had to deal with periodic medical issues. Fainting. Falls. Broken bones.Luckily, she was in good stead with the local rescue squad because she faithfully attended their crab feast fund-raisers.Each time, my siblings and I would move heaven and earth to get her home from whatever hospital she had landed in.In 2003, I tried to talk one emergency room doctor into releasing her after 11 hours.“I’ll let her out if she can tell me who the president is,” the doctor said.We both looked at my mom, expectantly.“George,” she said.I was thrilled; W., it was.“George Washington,” she finished.After each episode, I’d proudly tell her internist, Dr. Simon, how we had nursed her back to health.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and log into your Times account, or subscribe for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber? Log in.Want all of The Times? Subscribe. More

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      Republicans Will Regret a Second Trump Term

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      Now is the summer of Republican content.The G.O.P. is confident and unified. Donald Trump has held a consistent and widening lead over President Biden in all the battleground states. Never Trumpers have been exiled, purged or converted. The Supreme Court has eased many of Trump’s legal travails while his felony convictions in New York seem to have inflicted only minimal political damage — if they didn’t actually help him.Best of all for Republicans, a diminished Joe Biden seems determined to stay in the race, leading a dispirited and divided party that thinks of its presumptive nominee as one might think of a colonoscopy: an unpleasant reminder of age. Even if Biden can be cajoled into quitting, his likeliest replacement is Vice President Kamala Harris, whose 37 percent approval rating is just around that of her boss. Do Democrats really think they can run on her non-handling of the border crisis, her reputation for managerial incompetence or her verbal gaffes?In short, Republicans have good reason to think they’ll be back in the White House next January. Only then will the regrets set in.Three in particular: First, Trump won’t slay the left; instead, he will re-energize and radicalize it. Second, Trump will be a down-ballot loser, leading to divided and paralyzed government. Third, Trump’s second-term personnel won’t be like the ones in his first. Instead, he will appoint his Trumpiest people and pursue his Trumpiest instincts. The results won’t be ones old-school Republicans want or expect.Begin with the left.Talk to most conservatives and even a few liberals, and they’ll tell you that Peak Woke — that is, the worst excesses of far-left activism and cancel culture — happened around 2020. In fact, Peak Woke, from the campus witch hunts to “abolish the police” and the “mostly peaceful” protests in cities like Portland, Ore., and Minneapolis that followed George Floyd’s murder, really coincided with the entirety of Trump’s presidency, then abated after Biden’s election.That’s no accident. What used to be called political correctness has been with us for a long time. But it grew to a fever pitch under Trump, most of all because he was precisely the kind of bigoted vulgarian and aspiring strongman that liberals always feared might come to power, and which they felt duty bound to “resist.” With his every tweet, Trump’s presidency felt like a diesel engine blowing black soot in the face of the country. That’s also surely how Trump wanted it, since it delighted his base, goaded his critics and left everyone else in a kind of blind stupor.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and log into your Times account, or subscribe for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber? Log in.Want all of The Times? Subscribe. More

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      Meta Rolls Back Restrictions on Trump’s Instagram and Facebook Accounts

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      Meta on Friday said it was rolling back some restrictions to former President Donald J. Trump’s Facebook and Instagram accounts so people on its services could hear from those running for the presidency “on the same basis.”Under the restrictions on Mr. Trump’s accounts, he could have been suspended from Meta’s services — which also include Threads and WhatsApp — if he had posted content that sought to delegitimize this November’s election, among other things. But Meta said it was now relaxing those restrictions, reducing the potential for a suspension if Mr. Trump violated the company’s terms of service.The move further returns Mr. Trump’s social media accounts to what they had been before the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol. At the time, Mr. Trump’s Facebook and Instagram accounts were indefinitely suspended on the grounds that his posts ran the risk of inciting more violence. Last year, Meta reinstated Mr. Trump’s accounts, but with the restrictions.As of Friday, those penalties are no longer applicable.“We believe that the American people should be able to hear from the nominees for President on the same basis,” Nick Clegg, Meta’s president of global affairs, said in a statement. He said the penalties placed on Mr. Trump’s accounts had been “a response to extreme and extraordinary circumstances” after Jan. 6, and were no longer needed.Presidential nominees still need to abide by Meta’s terms of service, however, the company said.In a statement, a spokesman for the Biden campaign, Charles Kretchmer Lutvak, said that removing the restrictions on Mr. Trump’s accounts was “a direct attack on our safety and our democracy,” adding that the decision “will allow Trump and his MAGA allies to reach more Americans with their fundamentally undemocratic, un-American misinformation.”At the Republican National Convention next week, Mr. Trump is expected to accept the party’s nomination for president. The Democratic National Convention is in August, though calls from prominent Democrats for President Biden to step aside as the nominee have complicated that process. Mr. Biden has maintained that he has no plans to drop out.Axios previously reported on Meta’s policy update. More