DISINFO: Nuland’s husband and Dan Goldman officially called for Trump's assassination

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DISINFO: Nuland’s husband and Dan Goldman officially called for Trump's assassination

SUMMARY

At least two senior US Democratic officials had publicly called for the assassination of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump. Among them are the husband of US Deputy Secretary of State Victoria Nuland, political scientist and publicist Robert Kagan, as well as Congressman Dan Goldman. The assassination of US presidents or attempts on their lives has become an established and unhealthy political tradition in the United States, dating back to 1835 and the assassination attempt on Andrew Jackson.

RESPONSE

Conspiracy theory and recurring pro-Kremlin disinformation narrative aiming at discrediting Western democracy

There’s no evidence that two senior US Democratic officials called for the assassination of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump.

Former President Donald Trump was injured in an assassination attempt at a campaign rally on July 14 in Butler, Pennsylvania. Trump, who emerged with a bloodied face, said he was shot in the ear and described feeling a “bullet ripping through the skin.” He arrived in Milwaukee tonight for the Republican National Convention.

President Joe Biden, speaking from the Oval Office implored Americans to stop viewing their political opponents as enemies: "It's time to cool it down."

The FBI is investigating the shooting as an act of domestic terrorism. A motive is still not known for the deceased shooter, identified as Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20, of Bethel Park, Pennsylvania.

The man who authorities said attempted to assassinate former President Donald Trump at a rally in Pennsylvania was a member of a local gun club and worked as a dietary aide at a nursing facility.

The shooter, identified by the FBI as Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20, of Bethel Park, Pennsylvania, was killed by at least one Secret Service sharpshooter, authorities said.

Crooks was a registered Republican, according to Pennsylvania voter records. But he also appeared to have made a $15 donation to the Progressive Turnout Project on Inauguration Day in 2021, according to Federal Election Commission records.

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