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BUTLER: With the highly anticipated US presidential elections less than a month away, Republican candidate Donald Trump returned to his assassination attempt position as he addressed a large crowd in Pennsylvania during a rally also featuring tech billionaire Elon Musk .
“As I was saying,” Trump said as he appeared on stage, pretending to resume the speech that was cut short when he was grazed in the ear by a bullet on July 13.
The former president of the United States was targeted by Thomas Matthew Crooks with the latter being shot dead by Secret Service personnel.
During the Pennsylvania rally, Trump saluted firefighter Corey Comperatore, who was shot and killed by the shooter, and two other people who were injured in the shooting.
At 6:11pm, the exact time when guns exploded on July 13, the former president called for a moment of silence. A bell then rang four times, once for each of the four victims, including Trump.
In his speech, the Republican presidential candidate darkly suggested without evidence that facing an “enemy from within” was more dangerous than a foreign adversary. Of the gunman, he said “a cold-blooded assassin was aiming to silence me” but “he did not stop our movement”.
The crowd appeared to be in the tens of thousands, many wearing Trump regalia. Some chanted the slogan “fight, fight, fight” that Trump used to rally his followers moments after he was shot.
“We’re here to say, we can’t be intimidated, we can’t be stopped,” Ohio Republican Senator JD Vance, Trump’s vice presidential running mate, told the crowd.
Vance rejected the argument from Vice President Kamala Harris and other Democrats that Trump represents a threat to democracy.
“Donald Trump took a bullet for democracy. What the hell have you done?” said Vance.
People cheered when Trump’s plane flew over the rally before landing as the loudspeakers played the theme song from the movie “Top Gun”.
Trailers had been placed around the site as a protective measure to block the view around it including the building where the shooter had opened fire.
Republican officials hope that Trump’s return to Butler will increase his turnout among hard-core supporters of Pennsylvania, a state that he and his Democratic opponent, Kamala Harris, see as crucial to winning on November 5 .
“I’m going back to Butler because I feel obligated to go back to Butler,” Trump told the Generation News cable news network earlier this week.
“We never finished what we were supposed to do,” he said.
Moreover, the presidential candidate, during his speech, called on stage a powerful ally, Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and owner of social media platform X. This was his first time at a Trump campaign event since he endorsed the former president after July 13.
“The true test of someone’s character is how they behave under fire,” Musk said as he called the election a “must-win situation” for Trump and urged the crowd to register to vote.
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